AI Search Optimization (GEO & AEO)

GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) is about being cited inside a generated answer: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews. AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) is about being the extracted answer itself: featured snippets, People Also Ask, voice results. They run on the same raw material of structured data, clean entities, and answer-first writing, so we deliver them as one engagement rather than two invoices.

SEO earns the blue link. GEO and AEO earn the citation and the answer box. They are not alternatives: roughly 75% of the links inside a Google AI Overview come from pages already sitting in the top 12 organic results, so strong SEO is the entry ticket and GEO decides whether the engine quotes you or a competitor. Most clients run both.

Technical foundations go live in weeks 1 to 3, and AI fan-out queries can surface in Search Console within days. Content and AEO restructuring in weeks 3 to 6 builds citation momentum. Off-site citation work compounds across months 2 to 6. You get a scorecard every month, so you watch movement instead of waiting on a promise.

Yes. We ran it on our own site first. Within 24 hours of deploying llms.txt, six distinct AI fan-out queries appeared in our Google Search Console. The full timeline and evidence are published at /case-studies/llms-txt-ai-search-visibility/, and the 47-check framework we run for every client is published at /blog/geo-audit-2026/.

Yes, and it changes the work. ChatGPT runs its background searches in English in roughly 78% of cases even when the prompt is written in Romanian, so a Romanian business needs its entities, schema, and off-site citations legible in both languages. We deliver bilingual GEO and AEO as standard, and this site is itself the worked example.

Yes. Weeks 1 to 2 of the retainer deliver the same baseline assessment we sell standalone as the €500 AI Visibility Audit. If you ran the audit first, the €500 is credited in full to your first month, so it is never paid twice.