GEO costs $500 to $3,000 a month with most agencies and freelancers, because it is the same work as good SEO with a new scoreboard. Expect it folded into your SEO retainer rather than billed on top, and treat a separate GEO line item as a red flag. Done yourself, GEO costs time and almost…
A GEO checklist is a pass over your existing pages, not a rebuild, because the changes that get pages quoted by AI engines are answer-first paragraphs, real statistics, quotable sources, clean structure, and crawlers that can reach the page. Most of them take under an hour per page. Key Points 1. Put the Answer in…
No, GEO is not just SEO with a new name, because AI engines quote pages instead of ranking them, and only 20-26% of AI Overview links match the top 10 organic results. Still, about 80% of the work is the SEO you already pay for, so the new part is a thin layer on top,…
GEO and AEO are not the same thing, but they overlap so much that treating them as one job is usually the right call. GEO is about getting your pages quoted in AI-written answers wherever they appear. AEO is about winning direct answers to questions, a practice that started with featured snippets. What GEO Covers…
GEO, or generative engine optimization, is the practice of making your content more likely to be quoted in AI-generated answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google’s AI features. The term comes from a 2024 research paper that found the right edits boost visibility in those answers by up to 40%. Keep reading for where GEO came…
The AEO mistakes that cost the most citations are burying your answer, stuffing keywords, and blocking the crawlers that feed AI tools. In the research behind GEO, keyword stuffing lowered visibility below baseline while adding stats and citations lifted it by up to 40%. Most fixes take minutes. Key Points 1. Burying the Answer Burying…
AEO for ecommerce means writing your store’s pages so AI tools can quote them when shoppers ask what to buy. The shift is measurable: Adobe tracked traffic to US retail sites from AI sources up 4,700% year over year in July 2025. The stores winning those quotes answer product questions in plain text. Keep reading…
You should hire an AEO agency only if it treats answer engine optimization as part of SEO, not a separate project billed on top of it. Google says optimizing for its AI features is still SEO. Most stores get further paying one team for the fundamentals than paying two teams for the same page. What…
AEO costs nothing extra beyond good SEO if you do the work yourself, and roughly $500 to $5,000 a month when an agency does it inside an SEO engagement. Agencies selling AEO as a separate add-on charge about $937 a month for it, and that line item is usually repackaged SEO work. Keep reading and…
This AEO checklist covers the 10 things I check before I expect a page to get quoted by AI Overviews, featured snippets, or ChatGPT: real questions, first-sentence answers, snippet-sized passages, proof, clean structure, crawl access, and tracking. Work it top to bottom to cover most of answer engine optimization. Key Points 1. Start With Questions…