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We run the tracking for you, because progress here is easy to fake with vanity metrics. We write 25 questions your buyers would actually ask, we ask them of Claude every day, plus any engine you add, and report how often you were named.

The terms are used almost interchangeably in practice. Answer engine optimization usually describes the older goal of winning featured snippets and direct answers in classic search. Generative engine optimization describes being cited inside a model-written response. The tactics overlap so heavily that separating them into two budgets rarely makes sense. Our answer engine optimization services and GEO work are the same engagement.

No. This runs as a standalone monthly service on whatever WordPress hosting you already use. It does pair well with our maintenance and performance plans, mostly because slow or broken pages undermine everything else and updates occasionally break markup. If you host elsewhere and want to stay there, that is fine. We will tell you if the environment is genuinely holding results back.

AI Visibility is $149 a month per website and tracks 25 prompts on Claude, which suits most single-location businesses and single-product companies. Each additional AI engine is $49 a month per website. If you want pages optimized each month as well, Page Optimization is $1,100 a month for four pages, and Visibility Pro bundles AI Visibility, Search Reporting, and Page Optimization for $1,200 a month. There are no other tiers to choose between.

Generative engine optimization is the work of getting your business represented accurately inside AI-generated answers. When someone asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google’s AI Overview a question in your category, those systems retrieve source material, summarize it, and sometimes cite it. GEO shapes what they find and how confidently they can use it, through structured data, answer-first content, crawler access, and consistent facts about your company. Our AI Visibility service measures the result: how often an assistant names you, and who it names instead.

Traditional SEO competes for a ranked position on a results page. Generative engine optimization competes to be the source a model quotes when it writes the answer instead. The overlap is real, since both need crawlable, well-structured, credible pages. The difference is what counts as a win. In search you want a click. In an AI answer you want your name, your facts, and a link back to you.

Yes. Classic search still sends most of the traffic for most businesses, and the technical foundation the two share means neglecting one weakens the other. AI Visibility measures where you stand in AI answers and does not change your site. If your indexing, site structure, or content quality is weak, that is page work, which Page Optimization does, because no amount of tracking rescues a page an assistant cannot retrieve.

AI Visibility tracks 25 prompts on Claude as standard, and each additional AI engine, such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google AI Overviews, is $49 a month per website. Each pulls from a different mix of live web retrieval, licensed sources, and training data, so they frequently disagree about who to name. We track your visibility separately on each rather than reporting a single blended number that hides where you are losing.

Tracking starts within days, so you see where you stand almost at once. Moving that number takes changes to your pages, which Page Optimization does, and that takes longer. Expect three to six months before your prompt set shows steady, repeatable mentions rather than occasional ones. Anyone promising faster than that is either lucky or guessing. We report movement monthly so you can see the trend early.

Yes, within limits. We write 25 questions a buyer would ask about what you sell, we ask them of Claude every day, plus any engine you add, and record how often you are named. That gives you a real trend line and a share of voice figure against named competitors. What nobody can give you is a complete impression count, because the platforms do not publish one.

It is a plain text file at your domain root that points AI crawlers at your most important content in a clean, readable form. Adoption is still uneven across the major platforms, so treat it as cheap insurance rather than a silver bullet. It is not part of AI Visibility, which measures AI answers and does not change your site.