Answer Engine Optimization AEO · GEO

Someone just asked AI for the best [plumber]. It didn’t say your name.

Your buyers ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI before they ever open a website — and the answer names just three to five brands. We make sure one of them is yours, with the citations to back it up.

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Where buyers really ask →
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01 The shift

The buying journey moved to AI. Your marketing didn’t follow.

Search is becoming an answer, not a list of blue links. And an answer has no page two — if the model doesn’t cite you, you simply aren’t in the decision.

3–5
brands a typical AI answer names. Everyone else is invisible — there is no scrolling for more.
83%
of AI citations on commercial queries come from pages updated in the last 12 months.
2026 industry data
⅓
of highly-cited content is third-party “best of” listicles — not your own website.
2026 industry data
02 How the machine decides

AI doesn’t remember you. It retrieves you.

Every answer engine works the same way: it searches live sources, then quotes the most trusted ones. Win the sources, win the answer.

a.

Retrieval, not memory

The model pulls fresh sources at answer-time and cites them. Your authority across the whole web matters far more than any single page on your own site.

b.

Off-site beats on-site

Reviews, comparison listicles, Reddit threads and directories shape the answer more than your homepage copy ever will.

c.

Freshness wins

Stale pages get dropped from answers up to three times more often. Recently updated, clearly dated content keeps getting quoted.

d.

Structure is liftable

Clean question-and-answer blocks plus FAQ schema make your content trivial for a model to extract and quote word-for-word.

03 The work

From “not found” to cited first — in four moves.

i

Diagnose

We ask the AIs exactly what your buyers ask — and screenshot who gets named, who gets cited, and where you’re missing. You see the gap in black and white.

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ii

Optimize on-site

We restructure your content for extraction: direct answers up top, FAQ & Organization schema, AI-crawler access, an llms.txt, and freshness signals.

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iii

Build authority off-site

The real lever. We earn you into the listicles, review platforms, communities and directories the AIs trust — organically. No fake reviews, no spam, ever.

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iv

Monitor & compound

Monthly, we re-run your prompt basket and track your share of voice across every engine as the citations start landing — and keep pushing.

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04 Pricing

Start with a diagnosis. Scale with momentum.

AI Visibility Audit
$297 / one-time · delivered in 48h
The unignorable proof: exactly where AI recommends competitors instead of you — and the plan to fix it.
  • → Custom prompt basket for your buyers
  • → Run across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini & Google AI
  • → Competitor & citation-source breakdown
  • → Prioritized 90-day action plan
Buy the audit — $297
Ongoing Visibility
$149 / month
We do the work month over month — and your name keeps showing up in more answers, in more engines.
  • → Everything in the Audit, refreshed monthly
  • → On-site optimization & schema rollout
  • → Off-site citation & authority building
  • → Share-of-voice tracking & monthly report
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05 Straight talk

We’d rather lose the deal than lie to you.

If anyone “guarantees” you the number-one spot in AI, walk away. Here’s what we’ll never promise:

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A guaranteed #1 spot

AI answers vary by user, session and time. We raise your probability of being cited — we don’t fake certainty.

✕

Results overnight

Off-site authority and freshness compound over weeks and months as engines re-index. Anyone promising “tomorrow” is bluffing.

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AEO instead of SEO

Google’s AI pulls from the organic top 10. We extend your SEO into the AI era — we don’t replace the fundamentals.

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Fake reviews or spam

No astroturfed Reddit, no spam listicles. It breaks platform rules and burns your brand. Organic is the only thing that lasts.

06 Questions

The honest FAQ

Answer Engine Optimization is making your business the one AI tools cite when buyers ask for recommendations. GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) is the broader umbrella. Think of it as SEO’s extension into the world of AI answers — not a replacement.

No — and be wary of anyone who does. AI responses change by user, session and prompt. What we can do is dramatically raise the probability you’re cited by fixing the exact signals these models reward: authority, freshness and structure.

The on-site fixes land fast. The off-site authority that really moves the needle compounds over weeks to a few months as engines re-crawl and re-index. We track progress monthly so you can watch it happen.

Yes. Google’s AI Overviews lean heavily on the organic top 10, so classic SEO stays foundational. AEO sits on top of it — same engine, new gear.

Niche, local and comparison-style queries (“best X in Y”, “X alternatives”) are far easier to win than broad head terms. If you have a clear category and geography, you have an edge.

↑ Meta: this section ships the exact FAQPage schema we’d add to your site — so AI can lift these answers directly.
07 Last word

Find out what AI says about you — before your next customer does.

Send us your business and top competitor. We’ll run your buyers’ real questions through the major AI engines and show you the answer — free.

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