Get named, quoted, and cited inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, and Claude when your buyers ask an AI assistant for a recommendation. Roughly one in five buyer research sessions now starts inside an AI, not a search bar.
Answer Engine Optimization is the practice of getting your business named as the answer inside AI assistants. It matters now because buyer behavior is shifting faster than most Greensboro firms have adjusted for.
Buyer research sessions in the Triad now start inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google AI Overviews.
Of Google searches for local service queries now return an AI Overview above the blue links.
Blue link clicks earned when an AI answers the buyer directly and never sends them to a website.
If a Greensboro buyer asks ChatGPT for the best commercial roofer, best estate planning attorney, or best HVAC company and your firm is not one of the three names returned, the lead is lost before it ever reaches your website. As a Greensboro digital marketing agency, we built AEO as a standalone service because that gap is now big enough to demand its own program.
Nine interlocking workstreams that make your firm the answer AI assistants give when buyers ask.
A 50-prompt library run across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, and Claude. We measure mention rate, citation rate, position in the answer, sentiment, and benchmark against your three closest Greensboro competitors.
Wikipedia and Wikidata presence work, Knowledge Graph cleanup, Organization and Person schema, sameAs links to LinkedIn, Crunchbase, and Google Business Profile. LLMs cite entities they can identify with confidence.
LocalBusiness, Service, FAQPage, HowTo, Article, and Organization JSON-LD deployed sitewide. Every page becomes machine-readable, which is how models decide what to quote.
Definitional first sentences under every H2, TL;DR blocks, FAQ modules, comparison and versus pages, honest pricing ranges, and quotable stat blocks. Content built to be lifted verbatim into an AI answer.
We publish and maintain both files at your domain root so AI crawlers get an authoritative summary of who you are, what you sell, and which pages matter most.
Google Business Profile review cadence, local news pitches, industry association directory placements, roundup inclusions, and podcast outreach. LLMs weight what other trusted sites say about you more than what you say about yourself.
Explicit allowlisting of GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended, and CCBot in robots.txt. Blocking AI crawlers guarantees you will never be cited. Most firms are accidentally blocking at least one.
A 30-minute weekly operator cadence runs your prompt library, logs mention and citation deltas, flags competitor movement, and ships one high-leverage fix per week. Trends beat one-time audits.
Mention rate delta, new citations won, competitor benchmark movement, GA4 AI-referral sessions, Search Console question-query patterns, and the next 30-day plan. Tied to pipeline, not vanity metrics.
Transparent Pricing
Month-to-month, no long-term contracts. Every tier includes reporting tied to real AI citations, not vanity metrics.
Owner-operated firms, one city focus
Most popular for growing service firms
Buyers are asking ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews for a recommendation right now. Let's make sure your Greensboro firm is the one they name. Pair AEO with our organic SEO service for compounding results.