Your Traffic Disappeared Into ChatGPT. Here's How You Get It Back.
If you're a content lead watching zero-click AI answers steal your organic pipeline, you need citation engineering -- not more blog posts.
AEO services that get your brand cited in ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. Structured content, entity authority, and citation engineering from $5,000/mo.
Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is about structuring your website content, entity relationships, and authority signals so that AI-powered answer engines -- ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and Gemini -- actually cite your brand when they respond to queries. Traditional SEO chases blue links. AEO targets the citation layer inside large language models and retrieval-augmented generation systems. It's a different game with different rules.
Your Current Site May Be a Liability
Common gaps we find in nearly every audit.
How We Build This Right
Every safeguard, built in from Day 1.
AI Citation Auditing
We query ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini for your target topics and map exactly where you're cited -- and where competitors show up instead. That baseline shapes every tactical decision we make.
Entity Authority Engineering
We build and reinforce your brand's knowledge graph presence through structured data, Wikipedia-style sourcing, and cross-platform entity consistency. LLMs trust entities they can verify across multiple authoritative sources. We make you verifiable.
Structured Content Architecture
Every priority page gets restructured with claim-evidence patterns, FAQ schema, speakable markup, and clear attribution chains -- the things RAG systems actually prefer. Your content becomes machine-parseable without turning into a robot-written mess.
Citation Gap Analysis
We reverse-engineer which sources AI engines pull from for your target queries, then build content that fills those gaps. You displace competitors by becoming the more authoritative, better-structured source. It's not magic -- it's positioning.
LLM-Friendly Technical SEO
We optimize crawlability for AI scrapers, fix canonical signals, and make sure your robots.txt and sitemap configurations aren't accidentally blocking the crawlers that feed AI training data. This stuff gets overlooked constantly.
Monthly Citation Monitoring
We track your brand's presence across all major AI answer engines on an ongoing basis, with monthly reports showing citation frequency, sentiment, and how your competitive positioning shifts over time.
What We Build
Purpose-built features for your industry.
Multi-Engine Citation Tracking
Automated monitoring of ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews for your priority keywords.
JSON-LD & Schema Buildout
Full implementation of Organization, FAQPage, HowTo, Speakable, and custom schema types -- all tuned specifically for AI extraction.
Knowledge Panel Optimization
Google Knowledge Graph verification, Wikidata entity creation, and cross-platform NAP consistency to build real entity authority.
Topical Authority Mapping
A content cluster strategy built around the semantic relationships LLMs actually use to determine source credibility.
Competitor Citation Intelligence
Monthly competitive reports showing which brands AI engines cite for your target queries -- and why.
Content Reformatting for RAG
Existing content restructured into claim-evidence pairs, tight definitions, and attributable statements that RAG pipelines prefer to pull from.
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Our Development Process
From discovery to launch. Quality at every step.
AI Citation Audit
Week 1We run your brand and target queries through every major AI engine and document where you appear, where you don't, and who's getting cited instead. You get a full citation gap report with competitive benchmarks -- not assumptions.
Entity & Technical Foundation
Weeks 2-3We build your entity authority layer from the ground up: structured data, knowledge graph signals, canonical architecture, and crawler access optimization. This is the infrastructure AI engines need before they'll trust and cite your content.
Content Optimization Sprints
Weeks 4-8Priority pages get rebuilt with LLM-friendly formatting -- claim-evidence patterns, inline definitions, FAQ markup, and clear attribution. New citation-targeted content fills the gaps we identified in the audit.
Authority Signal Amplification
Weeks 8-12We reinforce your presence off-site through authoritative mentions, structured PR placements, and cross-platform consistency. This strengthens how LLMs associate your brand with your target topics over time.
Monitor, Measure, Iterate
Ongoing MonthlyMonthly citation tracking across all engines with performance reports included. We adjust content strategy based on which queries gain or lose citations and how AI engine behavior shifts -- because it does shift.
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