Search & answer-engine optimization

Show up where customers ask questions.

Technical SEO, content architecture, local and entity signals, FAQ answer pages, schema, and visibility tracking, across Google and AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.

For businesses tired of writing for keywords no one asks and being invisible in the AI answers their customers actually read.

The problem we usually walk into

Old SEO playbooks meet new buyer behavior.

Buyers now ask Google, Reddit, and ChatGPT in the same hour. The old approach, long blog posts targeting keyword phrases, gets clicks but rarely gets cited by AI assistants and rarely answers the actual question.

AEO (answer-engine optimization) is the addition: pages structured as direct answers, schema that AI can parse, citations and entity signals, and tracking that monitors not just rankings but mentions inside AI responses.

What changes

SEO + AEO outcomes.

  1. 01 · Clean technical foundation

    Site architecture, semantic HTML, schema, sitemaps, canonical hygiene, Core Web Vitals, all the boring infrastructure done right.

  2. 02 · Pages built around buyer questions

    Each page targets one intent, one audience, one decision, not a keyword cluster.

  3. 03 · Local + entity authority

    Google Business Profile, NAP consistency, citations, schema for the brand, the team, and the work.

  4. 04 · AI-citable content

    Definition blocks, FAQ pages, comparison tables, formats LLMs lift verbatim.

  5. 05 · Visibility you can measure

    Search Console + AI mention monitoring, monthly report on rankings, citations, and qualified traffic.

How we work

Audit. Fix the foundation. Build answer pages. Track and iterate.

  1. Weeks 1–2

    Audit

    Technical, content, local, AI-visibility audit. Buyer-question map.

  2. Weeks 3–4

    Foundation

    Technical fixes, schema, sitemap, internal links, NAP cleanup.

  3. Weeks 5–8

    Answer pages

    FAQ blocks, definition pages, comparison tables, structured for AI lift.

  4. Monthly

    Track + iterate

    Rankings, AI mentions, qualified traffic, content calendar updates.

Scope & pricing

One-time audit, or monthly program.

Audit

SEO & AEO audit

A clean diagnosis you can act on yourself.

from $1,499

USD · one-time · 2 weeks

  • Technical audit + crawl report
  • Content gap + buyer-question map
  • Local + entity audit
  • AI mention baseline
  • Prioritized 90-day roadmap
Talk through the audit
Most chosen

Monthly

Visibility program

Audit + ongoing implementation.

from $1,199

USD / month · 6-mo min

  • Initial audit included
  • 2 published answer pages / month
  • Technical fixes + schema
  • Local SEO + GBP optimization
  • Monthly report incl. AI mention tracking
Book program review

Enterprise

Authority program

For multi-location or content-heavy sites.

custom

USD / month · scoped to volume

  • Multi-location / multi-language
  • Programmatic SEO templates
  • Digital PR + citation building
  • Quarterly executive readout
Scope an authority program

Buyer questions

Before you sign on.

What's the difference between SEO and AEO?
SEO optimizes for search engines that show a list of links (Google, Bing). AEO, answer-engine optimization, optimizes for systems that synthesize an answer (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini). The technical hygiene overlaps. The content structure differs: AEO favors direct definitions, FAQs, structured comparisons, and citations.
How long until we see results?
Technical fixes show within weeks. Local SEO improvements within 4–8 weeks. Content-driven ranking shifts compound across 3–6 months. AI citation rate moves with content quality + freshness; we measure monthly.
Do you guarantee #1 rankings?
No. Any agency that does is either lying or paying for it. We guarantee a clean technical foundation, content built around real buyer questions, and transparent tracking.
How do you track AI mentions?
A combination of dedicated tools (Profound, AthenaHQ-style) plus periodic prompt-set audits across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity for the exact buyer questions you care about.
Can this combine with paid campaigns?
Yes, see Campaigns. Organic discovery + paid retargeting + answer pages compound. Best results when SEO/AEO and Campaigns are owned by the same team.
What if we have no content yet?
We start with the foundation and the 5–10 highest-priority buyer-question pages. Most clients have more raw material than they realize, old proposals, sales transcripts, support FAQs.

Next step

We'll audit your top 10 buyer questions and where you rank for each.