Be the name AI answers with.

AI SEO is the practice of optimizing a website so AI engines such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, and Google AI Overviews find it, trust it, and cite it as a source when they answer buyers' questions. It is also called generative engine optimization (GEO), LLM SEO, or AI search optimization. Classic SEO earns rankings; AI SEO earns citations.

Yes, they are different names for the same discipline. GEO stands for generative engine optimization, LLM SEO refers to optimizing for large language models, and some agencies call it AEO (answer engine optimization) or AI search optimization. Whatever the label, the goal is identical: when an AI engine composes an answer for your buyer, your business is the source it names.

Traditional SEO competes for a position on a results page and wins clicks. AI SEO competes for a place inside the answer itself and wins citations and mentions. The signals overlap (site health, authority, clear content), but AI SEO adds its own layer: answer-first page structure, schema markup, open access for AI crawlers, an llms.txt file, and original data worth quoting. The two work best as one program.

No, and anyone who guarantees a citation is guessing. AI engines choose their own sources. What we do is stack every signal that is consistently tied to being chosen: direct answers high on the page, FAQ and Service schema, fast crawlable pages, open AI-crawler access, consistent entity data, and original numbers engines want to quote. Then we track your citations so you can watch them appear.

Yes. AI engines lean heavily on the same open web that Google ranks, and strong classic SEO is still the fastest way to build the authority AI answers draw from. AI SEO extends that foundation to the new surfaces rather than replacing it. Our SEO services and AI SEO run as one program, so nothing is built twice.

Three ways. Citation share: we run the questions your buyers ask through the major AI engines and record who gets named, you or your competitors, and how that changes month over month. Referral traffic: visits arriving from AI assistants and answer engines. And leads: the calls and form fills that trace back to being the answer. If it does not move the business, we do not call it a win.

AI SEO (GEO) programs start at $3,000 a month, and twelve months is the investment we recommend. Citations start arriving well before that; twelve months is what it takes to make them stick. AI engines cite the pages that are structured, fast, consistent and confirmed across the web, that footprint compounds month over month, and a program stopped early hands the citations back to whoever keeps publishing. How competitive your market is and how much of your site needs answer-first structure set the number. You see it in writing after your free AI Growth Session, before anything starts, and everything we build stays yours. Most clients run AI SEO and traditional SEO as one program, priced once. Every starting price is on our pricing page, and the market ranges and cost drivers are in our SEO pricing guide.