SEO & AI Visibility

GEO and AEO: getting your business named in AI answers

When someone asks ChatGPT or Gemini for a supplier in Delhi, it names a few businesses and stops. There is no page two. This is the work of being one of the few — and right now it is unusually winnable.

The short version

There is no page two in an AI answer.

Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) and Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) are new labels for a genuinely new situation. In classic search, being eleventh still got you seen occasionally. In an AI answer, being eleventh means you do not exist — the model names three or four options and moves on.

The good news is that these systems are not ranking pages so much as assembling an understanding. They want to know what your business is, where it operates, what it does, and whether that story is consistent everywhere they can check. A small business with accurate, consistent, clearly-written information can beat a much larger competitor whose website contradicts its own listings.

The other good news: almost none of your competitors are doing this deliberately yet. The cost of getting organised now is far lower than the cost of catching up in two years, and most of the work pays off in ordinary Google results at the same time.

What you get

What the work actually consists of.

Making your entity unambiguous

One consistent answer to “who is this business, where, and what do they do” across your site, your schema, your listings and your profiles.

Answers worth quoting

Content restructured so a specific claim can be lifted cleanly — a direct answer near the top, in plain language, with the detail underneath.

Structured data that matches reality

Organization, LocalBusiness, Service, FAQ and Article markup that describes what is genuinely on the page. Never invented ratings — that is a penalty, not a shortcut.

The sources they lean on

Google Business Profile, directories and mentions tidied and made consistent, because answer engines cross-check what you say against what others say.

How it runs

The order we do it in.

Step 01

Find out what they say now

We ask the major assistants about your category and your name, and record what comes back — including who they name instead of you.

Step 02

Fix the contradictions

Different addresses, old phone numbers, a service you stopped offering. Inconsistency is the cheapest thing to fix and the most damaging to leave.

Step 03

Publish quotable answers

Pages that answer the questions people actually ask an assistant, written so the answer survives being extracted from the page.

Step 04

Re-check, monthly

The same prompts, run again, so you can see movement. This is a young field — we report what we observe, not what we hope.

FAQ

AI visibility questions

Is GEO just SEO with a new name?

It overlaps heavily, and anyone telling you it's a completely separate discipline is selling something. The foundations are the same: be fast, be crawlable, be clear, be consistent. What's genuinely different is the emphasis on entity clarity, on being quotable rather than merely rankable, and on third-party sources — because the model is assembling an answer, not ordering a list.

Can you guarantee ChatGPT will recommend us?

No. Nobody can, and these systems change their behaviour without notice. What we can do is make you the easiest business in your category to describe accurately, remove the contradictions that make a model hedge, and measure what the assistants actually say about you month to month.

How do you measure something like this?

We keep a fixed set of prompts — the questions a real customer would ask — and run them on a schedule, recording whether you're named, how you're described, and who's named instead. It's a sample rather than a ranking report, and we're upfront about that. It is still far better than guessing.

Should we block AI crawlers to protect our content?

For most businesses selling a service, no — being cited is the point. Blocking them is a reasonable choice for a publisher whose product is the words themselves. You are not that; your words are an advert for the work. Our robots.txt allows them, deliberately.

Where to next

Related reading and services.

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