SEO Services That Get You Found on Google and in AI Search
The best place to hide a dead body is on the second page of Google
Your customers are searching for what you sell right now. They are typing it into Google, and increasingly they are asking ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google’s AI Overviews instead. If you are not showing up in either place, someone else is getting that call.
We do SEO for small businesses across the US. Monthly reporting you can actually read, one keyword at a time, starting at $395 a month.
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“Isn’t SEO Dead Now That AI Answers Everything?”
No, but it changed, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling you 2019.
Google now shows an AI Overview at the top of a large share of searches. ChatGPT and Perplexity answer questions that used to start with a Google search. For a lot of informational queries, the user gets their answer without clicking anything.
That hurts if your entire strategy was ranking a blog post to catch curious readers. It matters much less if you are a business people hire, because the searches that make you money have not gone anywhere. Nobody asks ChatGPT to fix their air conditioner. They ask which company to call, and then they call one.
What changed is that there are now two jobs instead of one.
Job one: ranking
Showing up in the traditional blue links when someone searches for what you do. This still drives the majority of clicks for commercial searches, and it is still the foundation.
Job two: getting cited
When an AI assistant answers “best roofing company in Sarasota” or “who should I hire to install commercial solar,” it pulls from sources. You want to be one of them.
The good news is that the work overlaps heavily. Solid site structure, clear answers, credible content, and real authority feed both. The pages we build to rank are also the pages AI engines quote. We do the second job as part of the first, at no extra cost.
What Is Search Engine Optimization?
SEO
The other way to show up on the first page of Google is through SEO.
The costs associated with Google ads can escalate quickly, and once you stop paying you stop showing up. SEO is a more methodical and steady approach to showing up as relevant content and is a much more effective long-term strategy for generating a high volume of consistent high-quality leads.
GEO and AIO: Getting Found in AI Answers
A quick glossary, because the industry has invented three acronyms for closely related ideas and nobody explains them plainly.
What is generative engine optimization (GEO)?
Generative engine optimization is the practice of structuring your website and content so AI systems like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google’s AI Overviews, Gemini, and Claude cite you as a source inside the answers they generate. Traditional SEO competes for a ranking position. GEO competes to be the passage the AI actually quotes.
What is answer engine optimization (AEO)?
Answer engine optimization is the practice of formatting content so it can be lifted directly as an answer to a specific question. In practice AEO and GEO overlap almost completely, and most agencies use the terms interchangeably. AEO is the slightly older term, borrowed from featured snippet work.
What is AI optimization (AIO)?
AIO is the broadest of the three and usually refers to the whole discipline of making a business visible across AI-driven search. When someone says AIO they generally mean GEO and AEO together, plus the reputation and citation work that sits behind both.
How they relate to SEO: GEO, AEO, and AIO are not replacements for SEO. They are extensions of it. Google says this directly. Its own guidance on optimizing for generative AI search states: “From Google Search’s perspective, optimizing for generative AI search is optimizing for the search experience, and thus still SEO.” Google also warns readers to be skeptical of agencies selling GEO as a separate product with special tricks. We agree, which is why it is included in our SEO work rather than sold as an add-on.
What we actually do about it
Content written to answer the question
Direct answers near the top of a section rather than buried three paragraphs down. Not because AI needs content chopped into fragments, Google has specifically said it does not, but because a clear answer is easier for a person to read and easier for any system to quote.
Real numbers and real sources
A study by researchers from Princeton, Georgia Tech, the Allen Institute for AI, and IIT Delhi, presented at the KDD 2024 conference, tested nine content tactics across roughly 10,000 queries. Adding statistics, citing sources, and including quotations were the three most effective, with reported visibility gains of up to 40 percent. Keyword stuffing was among the worst performers. We write accordingly.
Structured data markup
FAQ, article, organization, and service schema. Google has said schema is not required for its own AI features, but it is still what earns rich results in regular search, and the non-Google engines do use it. It is worth doing either way.
Crawler access checked
AI companies run two kinds of bots: training crawlers like GPTBot and ClaudeBot, and search crawlers like OAI-SearchBot and PerplexityBot that fetch pages live in order to cite them. The distinction matters. Blocking GPTBot keeps your content out of model training but does not stop ChatGPT citing you. Blocking OAI-SearchBot does. We check on day one and tell you what is blocked and what it costs you.
Off-site presence
AI engines cite third-party sources heavily, so directory listings, review profiles, and industry mentions matter more than they used to.
Freshness
Updated, dated content gets cited more often than undated content. We keep the pages that matter current.
Our SEO Process
We use a step-by-step approach and target one keyword at a time. Most agencies chase fifteen keywords at once, spread the effort thin, and show you a report full of movement that does not mean anything. We would rather get you ranking for one term that brings in work than go get the next one.
KEYWORD RESEARCH
We analyze your site, your competitors’ sites, and what people in your market actually type into Google. Then we rank the opportunities by difficulty against traffic, because there is no point chasing a term you cannot win. You approve the target list before we start.
On-Page and Technical Optimization
Page titles, meta descriptions, heading structure, URLs, internal links, image alt text, and schema markup. This is the part visitors never see, and search engines care most about. It is also where most small business sites are quietly broken.
Content
Search engines rank pages, not businesses, so you need pages worth ranking. On our SEO plus content plan we publish a 1,500-word-plus article every month, built around the keyword we are targeting. Some months we pause the keyword work to build a page you are missing entirely, then resume the following month.
Link Building
We get established, relevant websites to link to yours. Links remain one of the strongest ranking signals Google uses, and they are the hardest part of SEO to fake. This is slow, manual work and it is the reason results compound rather than arrive.
AI Search Optimization
Schema, extractable answer formatting, crawler access, and citation-worthy sourcing, as described above. Built into the same monthly work at no extra cost.
Monthly Reporting
At the end of every month you get a report showing which keyword we targeted, which links we built, and how your rankings moved. Plain language, no vanity metrics. When a page hits the first page, we move to the next one.
SEO Pricing
One keyword at a time. Monthly reporting. No long-term contract.
Content & Copywriting
$395
per month
- One researched 1,500-word-plus article every month
- Written around a search term your customers actually use
- Published to your site and optimized before it goes live
Content alone will not fix a site with technical problems. If you are not sure where you stand, ask for a free audit first.
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SEO + Content
$1,150
per month
- Everything in the SEO plan
- Plus a 1,500-word-plus article every month
- Written around the exact keyword we are targeting
- Builds the pages you do not have yet
Saves $140 a month versus buying separately.
SEO
$895
per month
- In-depth keyword research, target list you approve
- On-page and technical optimization
- Schema markup
- AI search optimization and crawler audit
- Link building from high-authority sites
- Monthly reporting
No long contracts. If it is not working, you can stop. We would rather earn the next month than trap you in a year of it.
Looking for Local SEO?
If most of your customers are within driving distance, local SEO matters more than national rankings. Local SEO is the work of getting your business to show up in the Google Map Pack, in Apple Maps, and in “near me” searches. It centers on your Google Business Profile, consistent directory listings, local citations, and review volume.
It is closely related to what is on this page but not identical, and for a lot of local service businesses it is the faster path to the phone ringing. AI assistants also lean heavily on Google Business Profile data when someone asks them to recommend a local company, so the two now reinforce each other.
Not Sure Where You Stand?
Send us your website and we will run a free SEO and AI visibility check. You get back a plain-English summary: which keywords you currently rank for, where your competitors are beating you, whether AI crawlers can even read your site, and whether any AI assistant mentions you today.
No obligation and no sales call required. If SEO is not the right spend for your business right now, we will say so.
Common SEO Questions & Answers
What is generative engine optimization (GEO)?
Generative engine optimization is the practice of structuring your website and content so AI systems like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, and Claude cite you as a source in the answers they generate. Traditional SEO competes for a position in a list of links. GEO competes to be the passage the AI quotes. The core tactics are structured data markup, clear extractable answers, credible sourcing and statistics, keeping AI crawlers unblocked, and building third-party mentions.
What is the difference between SEO, GEO, AEO and AIO?
SEO is optimizing to rank in traditional search results. GEO, generative engine optimization, is optimizing to be cited inside AI-generated answers. AEO, answer engine optimization, is the older term for formatting content to be lifted directly as an answer, and in practice it overlaps with GEO almost entirely. AIO, AI optimization, is the umbrella term covering all AI search visibility work. They are not competing disciplines. Good SEO is the foundation all three are built on.
Is SEO still worth it in 2026 with AI Overviews?
Yes, for businesses, people hire. AI Overviews have measurably reduced clicks on informational searches, the kind where someone wants a fact and leaves. Pew Research Center, tracking 68,000 real searches, found users clicked a result 8 percent of the time when an AI summary appeared, compared with 15 percent when it did not. But that impact falls mostly on informational queries. Commercial and transactional searches, where someone is choosing who to pay, are far less affected. There is also an upside: analysis by Seer Interactive found that brands cited inside an AI Overview earn substantially more organic clicks than brands that are not cited. Being in the answer is now its own channel, which is why we build AI search optimization into every SEO engagement rather than selling it separately.
How much does SEO cost?
Our SEO is $895 a month, or $1,150 a month with a monthly article included. For context, Backlinko’s survey of over 300 SEO professionals put the typical monthly retainer at $1,000 to $2,500, and an Ahrefs pricing study found an average of roughly $3,200 a month for agencies and $1,350 for freelancers. Our pricing sits below all of those, which is deliberate: we work on one keyword at a time rather than selling a large bundle up front. Be skeptical of anything under a few hundred dollars a month, since SEO is labor and there is a floor below which nobody is doing real work.
How long does SEO take to work?
You will usually see movement in the first one to three months and meaningful ranking gains between three and six months, though competitive markets take longer. Three things drive the timeline: how old and established your website is, how competitive the keyword is, and how hard your competitors are working on the same term. Anyone promising page one in thirty days is either targeting a keyword nobody searches for or is not being straight with you.
Do you require a long-term contract?
No. SEO is billed monthly, and you can stop when you want. We think that is the right arrangement, because it means we have to keep earning it.
What is local SEO and do I need it?
Local SEO is the work of getting your business to appear in the Google Maps pack, Apple Maps, and “near me” searches, driven primarily by your Google Business Profile, consistent directory listings, and reviews. If most of your customers come from within driving distance, local SEO usually delivers faster returns than national rankings, and the two work well together. AI assistants also pull heavily from Google Business Profile data when recommending local businesses.
Can I run Google Ads and SEO at the same time?
Yes, and most businesses should. Ads deliver traffic immediately but stop the moment you stop paying. SEO takes months to build but keeps working after the invoice ends. Running ads does not harm organic rankings, and the keyword data from an ad campaign is genuinely useful for deciding what to target organically.
Does website speed affect SEO?
Yes. Google measures page experience through Core Web Vitals, which include how fast your main content loads, how quickly the page responds to input, and how much the layout shifts while loading. Google treats a Largest Contentful Paint of 2.5 seconds or less as good. Speed also affects whether visitors stay, which affects everything downstream. We check it as part of any SEO engagement and fix what is fixable.
Why are my competitors ranking above me?
Usually one of three reasons: they have more relevant content on the topic, their pages are better optimized technically, or they have more quality websites linking to them. Occasionally, it is simply that their domain is older. A free audit will tell you which of these is actually true in your case rather than guessing.
How will I know it is working?
You get a monthly report showing which keyword we targeted, what links we built and how your rankings moved. We also track organic traffic and, where you have tracking set up, the leads that came from it. We are happy to look at your analytics with you on a call rather than emailing a PDF and hoping.
Should I just do SEO myself?
You can. The fundamentals are public: create content people are searching for, optimize your pages properly, earn links from credible sites. What it costs is time, consistency over many months, and tools that are not free. Most business owners who try it stall around month three, not because it is hard but because it is never the most urgent thing on the list. If you have more time than budget, do it yourself and start with content and on-page basics. If you have more budget than time, that is what we are for.
Do you only work with businesses in Florida?
No. We are based in the Tampa Bay area and work with clients throughout the United States. SEO does not require anyone to be in the room.