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AEO for local service businesses
AI search optimization: get your business named by ChatGPT and Google AI
AI search optimization, also called AEO or GEO, makes your business easy for ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google’s AI Overviews to understand, trust and recommend. We restructure your pages around clear answers, add structured data, make your business details consistent across the web, and check what AI tools say about you every month. It is included in our SEO plans from $499 a month.
AI Overview
source for “soft washing irmo sc”, Pro Service SC
#1
“house washing irmo sc”, Pro Service SC
$499
a month, Growth plan
Viking Pro Solutions, Huntsville AL: each service page opens with a clear, quotable answer.
How AI picks businesses
What AI assistants look for
AI tools summarise what they can find and trust. They lean on sources that already rank well in Google, so AEO and SEO work together.
01
Clear answers on your pages
Each service page opens with a short, direct answer: what you do, where, for whom and how to get a price.
02
Structured data
Schema markup for your business, services, reviews and FAQs, so machines read your details correctly.
03
Consistent entity signals
The same name, services and areas on your site, Google profile, directories and social profiles.
04
Mentions on other sites
Reviews, local press, supplier and association pages that AI tools cite when they recommend a business.
Site structure
What is included in AI search optimization
Built into our Growth and Market Leader plans.
Answer-first page rewrites
Short, quotable answers at the top of key pages.
FAQ sections
Real customer questions with FAQ schema.
Business and service schema
Machine-readable details for every page.
Entity consistency audit
Name, services and areas across the web.
Citation and mention building
Sources AI tools trust and cite.
llms.txt and crawl checks
Make sure AI crawlers can read your site.
AI visibility check
What ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI say about you.
Competitor AI check
Who AI names instead of you, and why.
Monthly report
Rankings, calls and AI mentions.
Our work
AI and search results for our clients
Pro Service SC appears among the sources in Google’s AI Overview for “soft washing irmo sc”, and ranks #1 organically for “house washing irmo sc”.
Case study
Paramount Power Washing, Raleigh NC
For “power washing raleigh”, a 7×7 Google Maps grid scan shows Paramount in the top 3 at all 49 points, average rank 1.2 (31 October 2026). We built the site and run its local SEO.
Client rankings that feed AI answers
#1 · pressure washing lynchburg va
#1 · house washing irmo sc
#1 · window cleaning knightdale nc
Ralph and Daughter Home Services
Page 1 · handyman services morristown nj
Page 1 · gasket replacement fairfax va
AI answers change often. We report what they say each month rather than promising a mention.
Pricing
Plans that include AEO
AI search optimization is part of Growth and Market Leader, because it depends on the same rankings and content as SEO.
Starter · 1 city
$249/mo
Growth · Up to 3 cities
$499/mo
Market Leader · Up to 8 cities
$699/mo
Month-to-month after 3 months. Compare what each plan includes →
FAQs
AI search optimization questions
What is the difference between SEO and AEO?
SEO aims to rank your pages in search results. AEO makes your content easy for AI tools to quote and recommend. AI tools lean on pages that already rank, so the two work together.
Can you guarantee ChatGPT will recommend my business?
No one can. AI answers change and nobody outside those companies controls them. We improve the signals they use and report what they say about you every month.
What is GEO?
Generative engine optimization: another name for optimising your content for AI-generated answers. In practice it means the same work as AEO.
Do I need a new website for AEO?
Usually not. Most of the work is rewriting key pages, adding FAQs and schema, and fixing your business details across the web.
How do I check what AI says about my business?
Ask ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity “best [service] in [city]” and “what does [business name] do?”. Read our guide to getting recommended by AI for more.
Want to know what AI says about your business?
Send us your website and your city. We will check what ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI say about you and your competitors. Free, no sales call needed.