Cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews.
AEO is the actual technical work that gets a small business mentioned by name when buyers ask AI. We ship it on every build and track AI traffic monthly on cite-met.com, watching which AI crawlers read your pages.
The AI answer
The answer names you.
Someone asks an AI who to hire. The work below is what puts your business in the reply, with your own site cited as the source.
Illustration, showing our client Starlit Homes. Every fact in the answer is published on their own site. The answer itself is an example of the shape a good one takes, rather than a ranking we have measured.
The results page
And Google still sends people.
The same structure earns the map pack and a first blue link that points at your own page instead of a directory listing you rent.
Illustration, showing our client Starlit Homes. The headline and description are the real ones from their site. Where they sit on the page is an example of what we build toward, rather than a ranking we have measured.
Buyers ask, they no longer browse.
The question goes to ChatGPT, Perplexity or Claude, and the answer comes back as a short list of names. Being on that list wins the next call.
Most sites cannot be cited.
They were built for the old Google. The engines cannot parse the page cleanly, resolve the business as an entity, or find the signals they need to quote it with confidence.
We are our own case study.
32% of our traffic comes from AI search, more than twice what Google sends us. We track it monthly on cite-met.com, so the claim is one you can check.
Our capabilities
Answer Engine Optimization
Answer Engine Optimization is the actual technical work that gets your business mentioned by name when ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews answer the questions your customers ask.
Learn moreAI Overview Optimization
For a growing chunk of search queries, Google answers directly at the top of the page now. The blue links sit underneath. We make sure your business is one of the sources the summary actually pulls from.
Learn moreStructured Data Automation
Schema markup is the translation layer between your content and ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews. We bake it in at the template level so every new page ships with the right structured data automatically.
Learn moreEntity Authority Building
ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude build internal maps of who is an authority on what. If your business is a weak entity in those maps, no amount of on-page keyword work will get you cited.
Learn moreLLM Citation Strategy
A systematic plan to get your business mentioned by name when ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews answer the questions buyers in your area are actually asking.
Learn moreSEO vs AEO: Why Traditional Search Optimization Falls Short in the AI Era
AEO brings 52% lower cost-per-lead and 3.4x higher conversion than SEO alone, because a brand the AI recommends shows up already pre-qualified. SEO still feeds about 60% of web traffic, so dropping it is not an option either. You run both on purpose. Here is how they differ, where each one wins, and how to split the budget.
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