Answer Engine
Optimization
Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) makes your business easy for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews to find, trust and cite. We structure your site's facts, answers and listings so AI tools name you when customers ask.
When someone asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google AI Overviews about your industry, does your business show up? We check, then fix what keeps it from happening.
SEO gets you ranked.
AEO gets you cited.
Traditional SEO optimizes for Google's blue links. AEO optimizes for the AI engines that are replacing those links. When a potential customer asks ChatGPT "who's the best electrician in Columbus" or Perplexity "best marketing agency near me," your business needs to be in that answer.
We structure your content, build your authority signals, and optimize your data so AI models treat your business as a trusted source. The goal is simple: make your business the obvious answer.
Everything an AI needs to trust your business.
AEO covers the signals that AI models look for when deciding whether to reference your business in their answers.
Schema.org Structured Data
Organization, LocalBusiness, FAQ, HowTo, Product, and Review schema markup that AI engines can parse directly. Machine-readable facts about your business.
FAQ Content Architecture
Question-and-answer content structured so AI models can extract clean answers. Built from the questions your customers really ask.
E-E-A-T Authority Signals
Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trust signals that AI models use to decide which sources are credible. Author bios, credentials, reviews, and citations.
AI Citation Monitoring
Track when and how AI engines reference your business. See which queries trigger your content and where competitors are getting cited instead.
Direct-Answer Formatting
Content structured with clear definitions, lists, and summaries that AI can extract without rewriting. Your words, in their answers.
Monthly AEO Reports
Reports showing AI visibility progress, citation tracking, schema coverage, and content optimization recommendations. Same intelligence-backed reporting as our SEO service.
How we optimize for AI engines
The same disciplined, four-step approach we use for SEO, adapted for the way AI search engines discover and reference content.
Audit AI visibility
We test your business across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and Bing Copilot. We document where you show up, where competitors show up, and where neither does.
Structure your content
Schema markup, FAQ sections, clear headings, direct answers. We restructure your existing content so AI engines can parse it cleanly and cite it accurately.
Build authority
E-E-A-T signals, review management, author profiles, business directory consistency. The signals AI models use to decide if your business is credible enough to cite.
Monitor and optimize
Monthly citation tracking, schema validation, and content updates. AI engines re-crawl constantly. We make sure your content stays current and citeable.
SEO vs AEO: both matter, different games.
SEO and AEO work together. SEO gets you ranked in search results. AEO gets you cited in AI answers. Most businesses need both.
Traditional SEO
- Optimizes for Google blue links
- Focuses on keyword rankings
- Measures position 1-10
- Click-through from search results
- Content optimized for crawlers
- Backlinks drive authority
Answer Engine Optimization
- Optimizes for AI-generated answers
- Focuses on being cited as a source
- Measures inclusion in AI responses
- Zero-click authority and brand visibility
- Content structured for AI extraction
- Trust signals and structured data drive citations
Simple pricing. Real results.
Every plan includes our AI intelligence model working behind the scenes. Pick the level that matches your goals.
AEO Essentials
Foundation for AI visibility
- Schema.org markup (Organization + LocalBusiness)
- FAQ schema on key pages
- Content structure audit
- Quarterly AI visibility check
- E-E-A-T recommendations
- Monthly progress report
AEO Extended
Full AI search optimization
- Everything in Essentials
- Full schema library (FAQ, HowTo, Product, Review)
- Monthly AI citation monitoring
- Content rewriting for AI extraction
- Competitor AI citation tracking
- Direct-answer content creation
- Knowledge panel optimization
- Priority reporting
Enterprise
Multi-location and high-volume
- Everything in Extended
- Multi-location schema and NAP
- Custom AI training data optimization
- Weekly citation monitoring
- Dedicated strategist
- API access to citation data
- White-label reporting
All plans pair naturally with our SEO service. Most clients see the strongest results when running both together.
AEO questions, answered.
The questions business owners ask us most about AI search. The answers are the same ones we give on the phone.
What is Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)?
AEO is the work of making your business easy for AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews to find, understand and cite. It covers the facts on your website, the structured data that labels them, the questions your pages answer, and the listings and reviews an assistant checks before it names a business.
How is AEO different from SEO?
SEO works to rank your pages in the search results. AEO works to get your business named inside the answer an AI tool writes. They share a foundation, and Google's own guidance treats optimizing for AI search as part of SEO. AEO adds the work of making your facts quotable: structured data, direct answers in plain question-and-answer form, and consistent listings.
Do I need both SEO and AEO?
Most businesses do. Google still handles most searches, AI answers now sit above the links on many of them, and more people ask ChatGPT directly. Ranking and being named reach the same customer at different moments. If you need to start with one, the free site audit shows which one your site needs first.
How long does AEO take to work?
The groundwork is quick. Titles, structured data, FAQ sections and listing fixes are usually live within one to two weeks. Being named consistently takes longer and never stays fixed in place, because assistants draw on many sources and their answers vary from one ask to the next. We show you what changed and what the assistants say each month.
How do you measure AEO results?
Three ways. We ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews the questions your customers ask and record whether you are named. We check your structured data and FAQ coverage page by page. And we track visits that arrive from AI tools in Google Analytics 4. Because answers change from one ask to the next, we report the trend across repeated checks.
What does AEO cost?
Every AEO engagement is scoped for the business and priced in a written proposal before any work starts. The price depends on the size of your site, how many locations you have, how much structured data and FAQ content needs to be built, and how many AI tools and questions we monitor each month. The plans on this page describe the usual starting scopes.
Where do you offer AEO?
We are based in Columbus, Georgia and work with businesses across Georgia and Alabama, from Columbus, Macon and Albany to Auburn, Montgomery and the Alabama Gulf Coast. The work is done online, so it does not depend on being down the street. The city pages below cover how AEO plays in each market we serve.
AEO by state: Georgia
AEO by city: Foley, ALGulf Shores, ALOrange Beach, ALFairhope, ALDaphne, ALColumbus, GAPhenix City, ALAuburn, ALOpelika, ALLaGrange, GAMacon, GAAlbany, GAMontgomery, AL
Be the answer they read first.
AI search is not coming. It is here. The businesses that structure their content for AI engines today will be the ones getting cited tomorrow. We can help you get there.