AEO / GEO / SEARCH VISIBILITY
Better answers start
with better source pages.
Answer-engine search optimization helps answer engines understand your business and find useful material to reference. We combine clear content, technical SEO, factual evidence and citation checks.
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PLAIN-LANGUAGE DEFINITION
What are AEO
and GEO?
These terms describe overlapping work: answer engine optimization and generative engine optimization. The aim is to make your business information understandable and useful when a system produces an answer.
The practical foundation is familiar: pages that can be crawled and indexed, specific answers to customer questions, consistent entity details and evidence that supports your claims. Google says its ordinary SEO guidance applies to generated overviews and conversational search; there is no special schema or text file required.
We put customer questions and answers on pages that can be crawled. We check that your name, location and services agree across the site, and connect claims to named evidence. We also record the questions we test and the citations we observe over time. A mention, a visit and a customer inquiry are different results.
Source: Google’s guidance for generated search features.
Last updated October 11, 2026.
WHAT WE IMPROVE
Useful to a person.
Understandable to a system.
Answers to customer questions
Write service definitions, fit, process, pricing and limitations in plain language. Put the important answer on the page, not behind an animation or a download.
Consistent business identity
Match your business name, service area, contact information and legitimate profiles. Structured data describes what the visitor can verify in the content.
Evidence & internal links
Connect claims to named projects, dated observations and relevant sources. Link related services so the relationship between the pages is clear.
Crawlability & checks
Review robots rules, canonical URLs, sitemaps and rendered content. Check a consistent set of customer questions and record citations, mentions, absent results and blocked checks separately.
MEASURE THE RIGHT THING
A mention is
not a customer.
Record the question, engine, date, response and cited URL for each observation. Keep the question set consistent when comparing periods. A brand mention, a linked citation, a website visit and a qualified inquiry are different outcomes.
Answers vary by product, location, account and time. One successful prompt is evidence of one response. It does not establish broad visibility or prove that an edit caused an improvement.
Answer-engine search is part of the agreed SEO scope. The Launch’s optional SEO add-on costs an additional $399/month; the website is $2,500 to put live, then $149/month for hosting and care. The separate Engine plan is $1,500/month for eligible founding clients, with a three-month minimum. Compare the plans and terms.
GOOD QUESTIONS
Before we start.
Will an llms.txt file get my business cited?
No. It can offer an optional plain-text guide for systems that choose to use it. Google does not require it, and it is not a substitute for useful content, crawlability or evidence.
Does structured data guarantee answer-engine inclusion?
No. Accurate structured data can describe the business and page content. It does not force a search engine to rank, quote or cite a page.
Is this separate from traditional SEO?
It uses the same crawlable pages, business details and useful content as technical and local SEO. We include it in the agreed search work.
Can you guarantee search rankings or recommendations?
No. We can improve the source pages and report the responses we observe. We cannot control an engine’s recommendations or claim unmeasured results.
Give people a clearer answer.
Start with your website.
Send your website and tell us what needs to change.