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Generative & Answer Engine Optimisation

Get cited when AI answers the question

Your next customer is asking ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews instead of scrolling ten blue links. GEO and AEO make your brand the source those answers quote, built on the same honest, well-structured foundations that also lift classic SEO.

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Our take: nobody controls what a model says, so anyone who promises to "guarantee" an AI mention is bluffing. What you can control is the input: clear answer-first content, strong entities and schema that make you the obvious source to quote. GEO is a layer on solid SEO, not a bet-the-budget pivot, and it is cheapest to win while competition is still thin.
What's included

The AI-visibility stack

Answer-first content

Pages restructured so the answer comes first, in the format AI engines lift: clear definitions, direct responses, tables and step lists that map to how people actually ask.

Entity & brand footprint

Consistent entities across your site, profiles and the wider web, so engines understand who you are, what you do and why to trust you as a source.

Structured data & schema

FAQ, Article, Product, Organization and How-To schema that makes your content machine-readable, the difference between being parsed and being ignored.

Citability & digital PR

Earning the mentions and links that teach AI engines your brand is a credible authority worth quoting on your topic.

AI-visibility tracking

A baseline of how often you're cited across representative prompts on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and AI Overviews, then movement against it, monthly.

Technical readability

Crawlability, clean HTML, fast pages and sensible robots rules, so the engines can actually reach and render what you publish.

Proof of method

We optimise our own site to be quoted

Every guide on this site is written answer-first, marked up with FAQ and article schema, and organised into a 140-page topical cluster, exactly the structure AI engines prefer to cite. Browse the build guides to see GEO-ready content in the wild, or read where to start with organic vs paid.

Answer-first structure on every page, built for people and engines
Schema on relevant pages so answers are machine-readable
Honest baselines and monthly movement, on accounts you own
GEO layered on solid SEO, never instead of it
What to watch for

Where GEO goes wrong

The traps in a brand-new discipline, so you invest sensibly, not on hype.

"Guaranteed" AI mentions

No one controls a model's output. Promises to guarantee a ChatGPT or Perplexity mention are a red flag. We improve the inputs and track the movement honestly.

Skipping SEO to chase AI

AI engines lean on the same signals that rank you in classic search. Chasing GEO on a weak SEO foundation is building the roof before the walls.

Betting the budget too early

AI referral traffic is real but still emerging. We scope GEO as a sensible layer that compounds, not a pivot that starves the channels paying today.

Unstructured, unquotable content

Long, meandering pages do not get cited. Answer-first structure, schema and clean entities are what make content machine-readable and quotable.

Common questions

AI visibility, asked and answered

What is GEO, and how is it different from SEO?

SEO optimises to rank a page in a list of blue links. GEO, generative engine optimisation (and its cousin AEO, answer engine optimisation), optimises to be the source an AI answer quotes, cites or names, inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and similar. The overlap is large, clean technical foundations and genuinely useful content help both, but GEO adds work on entities, structured answers, schema and citability that classic SEO never needed.

Can you actually influence what ChatGPT or Perplexity says about a topic?

To a real but bounded degree, yes. AI engines pull from the web they can crawl and the sources they trust. By publishing clear, well-structured, factual answers, marking them up with schema, strengthening your entity footprint and earning citations, you raise the odds of being retrieved and quoted. We are honest that no one controls a model's output, we improve the inputs it draws from.

How do you measure AI search visibility?

We track how often your brand and pages are cited or named across a set of representative prompts on the major AI engines, month over month, alongside referral traffic from AI sources in your analytics. You get a baseline first, then movement against it, in a report on accounts you own, not a black box.

Do I still need traditional SEO if I invest in GEO?

Yes. GEO and SEO share the same foundations, crawlable, fast, well-structured pages and trustworthy content, and AI engines lean heavily on the same signals that rank you in classic search. We treat GEO as a layer on top of solid SEO, not a replacement for it. Skipping SEO to chase AI visibility is building the roof before the walls.

Which AI engines and answer surfaces do you optimise for?

The ones your buyers actually use: ChatGPT (and its search), Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Gemini, plus classic featured snippets and People Also Ask, which AEO work also wins. We focus effort where your audience and category signal demand, and tell you honestly where the traffic is not yet worth chasing.

Is this just hype, or is there real traffic here?

It is early, and we will not pretend otherwise. AI-driven referrals are a growing but still-emerging share of most sites' traffic. The reason to act now is that citability compounds and competition is thin, the brands that structure their content for AI today are the ones being named tomorrow. We scope GEO as a sensible layer, not a bet-the-budget pivot.

Free AI-visibility audit

See who AI names in your category. Probably not you, yet.

We'll run your brand and key questions through the major AI engines and send back what they say, where you're absent, and what it would take to be the cited source, within 48 hours.

Request the audit