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SEO · AEO · GEO

Search stopped being ten blue links. Your strategy should follow.

Your customers still search — they just don't always land on a results page anymore. They ask an assistant, read an AI summary, and act on whichever brand gets named. We make sure that's yours, across all three surfaces.

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  • SEO Search Engine Optimization
  • AEO Answer Engine Optimization
  • GEO Generative Engine Optimization
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Visibility index 78
Organic search 82
Answer boxes 74
AI citations 68
Three letters, three jobs

AEO, SEO & GEO explained

They sound interchangeable. They aren't. Each targets a different way people find answers, and each is won with different work. Here's the plain-English version.

AEO

Answer Engine Optimization

AI search engine optimization

Getting your business returned as the answer rather than a link to click. That means featured snippets, People Also Ask, voice assistants and Google's AI Overviews — the places a searcher gets what they need without opening a single website.

The question it answers "When someone asks a direct question, does the machine give them our answer?"

  • Question-led content structure
  • Schema and structured data markup
  • Concise, extractable answer blocks
  • Entity clarity — who you are, plainly stated
  • FAQ, How-To and Product markup
  • AI Overviews
  • Featured snippets
  • Voice search
  • People Also Ask
SEO

Search Engine Optimization

The foundation everything else stands on

The classic discipline: earning position on the results page itself, plus the map pack for anyone searching locally. Still the largest single source of qualified traffic for most businesses — and still the base layer AEO and GEO are built on top of.

The question it answers "When someone searches our category, do we show up before our competitors?"

  • Keyword and search intent research
  • Technical health, speed and Core Web Vitals
  • On-page optimization and internal linking
  • Authority building through earned links
  • Local SEO and Google Business Profile
  • Google
  • Bing
  • Map pack
  • Google Business Profile
GEO

Generative Engine Optimization

Being named inside the AI's answer

When someone asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini or Copilot for a recommendation, the model composes an answer from what it has read across the web. GEO is the work of making your brand one of the sources it reaches for — and one of the names it says out loud.

The question it answers "When an AI recommends someone in our category, is it recommending us?"

  • Brand mentions across sources models train on
  • Quotable statistics and original data
  • Clear, citable expertise and authorship
  • Consistent entity signals across the web
  • Tracking your share of AI recommendations
  • ChatGPT
  • Perplexity
  • Gemini
  • Copilot
  • Claude
Why this matters now

The click is no longer guaranteed

For twenty years the deal was simple: rank well, get the click, own the visit. That deal is changing. A growing share of searches now end on the results page itself, or inside a chat window, with the answer already delivered.

That doesn't make search less valuable — it makes being the source the thing worth winning. Ranking gets you into the pool of candidates. Being cited is what puts your name in front of the person deciding.

See where you stand today →
The old path

Search → scan results → click → read → decide

Five steps, and your website sat in the middle of every one of them. Rank high enough and the traffic followed automatically.

  • Query
  • Results page
  • Click
  • Your site
  • Decision
The path now

Ask → get a composed answer → act on the name given

Three steps, and your website may never appear. What appears is whichever brand the engine considered credible enough to name.

  • Question
  • AI answer + citation
  • Decision
The starting point

What's included in our audit

An audit is not a PDF of red and green ticks. It's a prioritised blueprint: what's broken, what it's costing you, and the order to fix it in.

Technical SEO audit

We make sure engines and AI crawlers can reach, render and understand every page that matters — before anyone spends a dollar on content.

  • Crawlability
  • Indexation
  • Site architecture

On-page & content audit

Where your pages match real search intent and where they miss it, mapped against the keywords that actually bring buyers rather than browsers.

  • Intent mapping
  • Content gaps
  • Cannibalisation

Website performance

Load speed, Core Web Vitals and mobile experience — the difference between a visitor who converts and one who leaves before the page paints.

  • Core Web Vitals
  • Mobile UX
  • Render speed

Competitor analysis

What your competitors rank for, where their authority comes from, and which of their positions are genuinely takeable versus not worth the fight.

  • Share of voice
  • Gap analysis
  • Link sources

Backlink & authority audit

The quality of your existing link profile, the toxic links dragging on it, and a realistic plan for earning the authority you're missing.

  • Profile quality
  • Toxic links
  • Earned coverage

AI visibility audit

How often ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and AI Overviews name you when asked about your category — and which sources they're pulling from instead.

  • AI citations
  • Entity signals
  • Source coverage
Our methodology

How we build durable growth

Our framework is designed for sustainable, compounding growth — not a spike that reverses at the next core update.

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Tailored approach

We start by understanding your business, your margins and how your customers actually decide — not by running your domain through a tool and reading out the score. The strategy is shaped around your growth objectives, competitors and audience behaviour.

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Uncover hidden opportunity

A full technical and competitive audit surfaces the openings your competitors have left behind: terms they rank for weakly, questions nobody has answered well, and the AI queries in your category currently returning someone else's name.

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Customized strategy

Research becomes a plan: a keyword and question map built around high-intent terms, matched to the right page, with a content and technical roadmap sequenced by impact rather than ease.

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Execution with precision

Our specialists implement it properly — on-page work, structured data, site improvements, internal linking and content production. Every change is documented, so you can always see what moved and when.

05

Constant optimization

We monitor rankings, traffic, conversions, competitor movement and AI citation share, then refine continuously. Search changes monthly. A strategy that isn't revisited is a strategy that's already decaying.

The work itself

Custom tailored strategies

Six workstreams that run together. Which ones get weight depends entirely on what the audit finds — nobody needs all six at equal intensity.

Competition analysis

We study what your competitors rank for, where their backlinks come from, and which content is doing the heavy lifting. Then we position you in the gaps they've left open rather than fighting them head-on where they're strongest.

  • Share of voice
  • Content gaps
  • Link sources

Advanced keyword research

We identify high-volume, high-intent terms — the ones attracting people ready to act, not just to read. Those get mapped to the right landing pages so traffic arrives somewhere designed to convert it.

  • Intent mapping
  • Long-tail clusters
  • Question terms

SEO-optimized content marketing

Content that matches search intent while staying genuinely readable. Engaging, persuasive, and structured so engines can extract a clean answer from it — which is what earns snippets and AI citations.

  • Editorial planning
  • Answer blocks
  • Topic clusters

On-page SEO optimization

Titles, meta descriptions, headings and schema markup done to spec, plus page speed and Core Web Vitals tuned properly. Unglamorous work that quietly decides whether everything else pays off.

  • Metadata
  • Schema markup
  • Core Web Vitals

Off-page & authority building

Earning high-quality backlinks and brand mentions from authoritative sites through strategic outreach and ethical link building. Those same sources are what generative engines read when deciding who to trust.

  • Digital PR
  • Earned links
  • Brand mentions

Local SEO services

Strategic local optimization to improve visibility in Google Maps and the local pack. Google Business Profile management, citation consistency and review strategy, so nearby customers find you first.

  • Google Business Profile
  • Map pack
  • Citations
Platform coverage

SEO across every major CMS and store platform

We don't just optimize websites — we engineer the technical foundation underneath them. Our developers and SEO specialists work directly in your platform, so recommendations actually get shipped instead of sitting in a document.

Launching a new store, replatforming, or fixing years of accumulated technical debt — we've done it on all of these.

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  • WordPressWooCommerce
  • Shopify& Shopify Plus
  • React & Next.jsHeadless builds
  • WebflowDesign-led sites
  • BigCommerce& Magento
  • Custom buildsAny stack
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Can we help with your digital marketing?

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