AI Search Optimization
& AEO Services That Get You Cited
ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews don't rank pages—they choose sources. Answer engine optimization (AEO) ensures your site is the source they choose. We audit, fix, and implement at the code level.
Start with our free AI visibility audit to see why AI search skips your site—or go deeper with our industry-leading 42-point AEO analysis for a full citability roadmap.
What Is Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)?
Answer engine optimization—also called AEO or generative engine optimization (GEO)—is the practice of structuring your website so AI-powered search systems cite and recommend your content. Unlike traditional SEO which focuses on ranking in search results pages, AEO optimizes for being the source AI systems extract answers from.
When someone asks ChatGPT a question, searches Perplexity, or triggers a Google AI Overview, these systems don't show a list of links—they synthesize an answer from sources they trust. AEO ensures your site has the schema markup, content structure, entity clarity, and technical signals needed to become one of those trusted sources.
This includes implementing structured data (schema.org markup), optimizing content for extractability, configuring AI crawler access via robots.txt and llms.txt, building E-E-A-T signals, and establishing clear entity relationships. It sits at the intersection of technical SEO, web development, and content strategy—which is exactly where we operate.
Most Tools Track AI Citations. We Engineer Citability.
Citation tracking tells you what already happened. The Agenxus AEO Visibility Score tells you why you're citable—or not—and exactly what to fix to become a default source for AI answers.
A Forward-Looking Signal, Not a Lagging Metric
AI engines don't cite content randomly. They cite content that meets specific structural, semantic, and trust-based criteria. The AEO Visibility Score measures how well your site meets those criteria—before citations happen.
Citable ≠ Ranked
Traditional SEO asks: “Can I rank for this keyword?” AEO asks: “Would an AI trust this enough to quote it?”
You can rank #1 and never be cited. You can be cited repeatedly without ranking at all. Agenxus is built for the second outcome.
Why Your Organic Traffic Is Declining Despite Good Rankings
AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity are answering your customers' questions before they ever click to your site. Without AEO, you're losing traffic to zero-click AI search results.
The Zero-Click Problem
AI-powered search engines are answering queries directly—summarizing, comparing, and recommending without sending traffic to your site. They choose which sources to cite based on structured data, entity clarity, and how easily content can be extracted into answers.
If competitors have better schema markup, clearer content structure, or more citation-ready formatting, AI systems like ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews will cite them instead—even if you outrank them in traditional Google search.
How AEO Fixes It
Answer engine optimization bridges the gap between traditional SEO and AI search visibility. It's a technical discipline that combines schema markup implementation, semantic HTML structuring, content reformatting, and entity optimization—all working together so AI systems can parse, trust, and cite your content.
This isn't about abandoning SEO. AI search optimization extends what already works by restructuring how your content is presented to both Google and AI-driven search engines like Perplexity, Claude, and ChatGPT.
Run a Free AI Visibility Audit
Our free audit tool scans your site for key signals AI systems use to decide who gets cited—and who gets skipped. In minutes, you'll see your AEO Visibility Score and top issues holding you back.
Need the full picture? Our comprehensive 42-point AEO analysis goes deeper—covering every schema type, content extractability pattern, E-E-A-T signal, and competitive citation benchmark across your entire site.
AEO Implementation Services: We Audit and Deploy the Fixes
Most AI search optimization consultants hand you a report. We write the code, deploy the schema markup, and restructure the content—on whatever tech stack you're running.
AEO Audit & Diagnosis
Start with our free AI visibility audit for an instant read on your site's citability. For a complete diagnosis, we run the full 42-point AEO framework—checking schema quality, content structure, AI crawler access, E-E-A-T signals, and citation readiness across every key page.
Prioritized AEO Roadmap
We translate audit findings into a prioritized implementation plan—what to fix first for maximum AI search visibility impact, what can wait, and exactly how each change affects your citations in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews.
Code-Level Implementation
We deploy the AEO fixes directly in your codebase—schema markup, content restructuring, semantic HTML, entity optimization, llms.txt configuration, and AI crawler access. React, Next.js, WordPress, or custom stacks.
What Our AEO Services Include
Schema Markup Implementation
Organization, Product, FAQ, HowTo, Article, and Review schemas deployed correctly for your page types—the structured data AI systems need to cite you.
AI-Optimized Content Restructuring
Question-focused headings, direct answers, comparison tables, and citation-ready formatting that AI systems like ChatGPT and Perplexity can extract.
Semantic HTML & Heading Hierarchy
Proper heading structure, definition lists, semantic elements, and accessible markup that both search engines and AI systems understand.
E-E-A-T Signal Optimization
Author credentials, editorial standards, citations, and trust signals that establish the authority AI search engines require before recommending content.
AI Crawler & Technical AEO Setup
AI bot access configuration, llms.txt deployment, IndexNow integration, robots.txt optimization for AI crawlers, and Core Web Vitals performance.
Entity & Knowledge Graph Optimization
Clear entity relationships, knowledge graph connections, and topical authority architecture that help AI systems understand and categorize your business.
Custom Sites Built for AI Search Performance
Sometimes the best AEO strategy isn't fixing an existing site—it's building one that's architecturally designed for AI visibility from day one. We build lightning-fast custom websites on React and Next.js that score 95+ on PageSpeed Insights and are structured from the ground up for AI citation and extraction.
Every page ships with proper schema markup, semantic HTML, AI-readable content structure, optimized heading hierarchy, and full AI crawler configuration baked into the codebase—not bolted on after the fact. The result is a site that performs in traditional Google search and AI-powered search simultaneously.
Who Needs AI Search Optimization?
Our AEO Services Are Built For:
- ✓Organic traffic is declining but your Google rankings haven’t changed
- ✓You’ve invested in SEO and content marketing but ROI is shrinking
- ✓Competitors show up in ChatGPT, Perplexity, or AI Overviews and you don’t
- ✓You want someone to implement the fixes, not just hand you a report
- ✓Your site runs on a modern stack (React, Next.js, WordPress) or you’re open to migration
Not the Right Fit If:
- ×You’re looking for cheap SEO packages or quick-win backlink tactics
- ×You want to publish low-quality AI-generated content at scale
- ×You need overnight results rather than structural optimization
- ×You’re not willing to invest in technical excellence
- ×You only want an audit report with no implementation
What Clients Say About Our AEO Services
Real results from businesses that invested in AI search optimization and answer engine optimization.
“The AEO audit showed us exactly why we weren’t appearing in ChatGPT results despite ranking on page one for our top keywords. Within six weeks of implementing the schema and content restructuring, we started getting cited in AI search for our core service terms.”
“What set Agenxus apart was that they didn’t just tell us what was wrong—they deployed the fixes. Schema markup, heading restructuring, llms.txt setup, all done directly in our Next.js codebase. Our organic traffic stabilized after months of unexplained decline.”
“We ran the free audit expecting a generic report. Instead we got a detailed breakdown showing our competitors had 4x more structured data than us. The implementation sprint covered 200+ pages of schema markup in under three weeks. Now Perplexity cites us regularly.”
Why Choose Agenxus for Answer Engine Optimization
AEO Implementation, Not Just Advice
We don’t hand you a PDF and wish you luck. We write the schema markup, restructure the content for AI extractability, and deploy the changes directly in your codebase.
Developer + SEO Strategist in One
AI search optimization sits at the intersection of web development and search marketing. We work natively in both—React, Next.js, WordPress, schema.org, and content strategy for AI visibility.
Proprietary 42-Point AEO Audit
Our AEO audit framework checks signals that generic SEO tools miss entirely—AI crawler access, content extractability, citation readiness, schema quality, and E-E-A-T signals for AI systems.
15+ Years of SEO & Development Experience
We don’t abandon what works. Our foundation is proven SEO and web development expertise—we’re extending it to where search is going with AI search optimization and generative engine optimization.
AEO & AI Search Optimization FAQ
Traditional SEO focuses on ranking your pages in Google's search engine results pages (SERPs). Answer engine optimization (AEO) focuses on getting your content cited, extracted, and recommended by AI-powered search systems like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews. AEO involves schema markup implementation, content restructuring for extractability, E-E-A-T signal optimization, and AI crawler configuration—areas traditional SEO tools and agencies typically don't address. You need both: SEO for rankings, AEO for AI visibility.
Our 42-point AEO audit evaluates: schema markup quality and completeness (Organization, Product, FAQ, HowTo, Article schemas), AI crawler access (whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google can crawl your site), content extractability (whether AI can parse your content into citable answers), E-E-A-T signals (experience, expertise, authority, trust indicators), heading hierarchy and semantic HTML structure, llms.txt and robots.txt configuration, entity relationships, and competitive AI visibility benchmarking. The audit identifies exactly why AI systems skip your site and what to fix.
Generative engine optimization (GEO) and answer engine optimization (AEO) refer to the same practice—optimizing your content to be cited by AI-powered search systems. GEO is a term more commonly used in academic research, while AEO is more widely adopted in the industry. Both focus on structured data, content extractability, and trust signals. Our services cover the full spectrum of AI search optimization regardless of which term you use.
We write and deploy code directly in your codebase: schema markup (Organization, Product, FAQ, HowTo, Article), content restructuring with semantic HTML, heading hierarchy optimization, entity relationship markup, AI crawler configuration (robots.txt, llms.txt), Core Web Vitals performance improvements, and E-E-A-T signal implementation. We work across React, Next.js, WordPress, and custom tech stacks—implementation, not just recommendations.
Most businesses see initial improvements in AI search citations within 30-60 days of implementing AEO changes. Schema markup and structural optimizations can be indexed quickly by both Google and AI systems. Full answer engine optimization typically shows measurable results—including increased AI citations and organic traffic recovery—within 60-90 days. This is often faster than traditional SEO because AI engines index structured data more efficiently.
Usually not. Most AEO fixes are incremental—we can implement schema markup, restructure content for AI extractability, and optimize your existing site without a full rebuild. However, if your site has fundamental performance issues or an architecture that's hostile to structured data, we may recommend migrating to a modern stack (React/Next.js) for maximum AI search visibility. We'll be upfront about what makes sense for your situation and budget.
AEO service engagements are scoped after the diagnostic audit. Most projects start with a one-time implementation sprint covering schema markup, content restructuring, and technical AEO configuration, with optional ongoing monitoring as AI search algorithms evolve. Run the free AEO audit first to see where you stand, then we'll provide a clear estimate based on your specific site and competitive landscape—no surprises.
Absolutely. The free AEO audit identifies the issues, and paid tiers include detailed reproduction guides and code examples you can implement yourself. Many technical teams and in-house SEO professionals use our audit as an AI search optimization roadmap. Our AEO consulting and implementation services are for businesses that want expert-level implementation or don't have the in-house development resources to deploy the changes themselves.
Check Your AEO Visibility Score for Free
Run the free AI visibility audit to see how your site scores for AI citability—or book a call to discuss our full 42-point AEO analysis.
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