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Generative Engine Optimization that gets you cited by AI

Buyers ask ChatGPT before they ask Google. Our generative engine optimization services make your brand one of the sources those systems retrieve, name and link – by fixing the facts about you across the web, then structuring your pages so a machine can lift them without losing the meaning.

4.6×More AI citations
AIOverviews & chat visibility
$103M+Revenue driven
+58%
AI citations
3.1×
Share of answer
P GEO performance
Live
AI citations
186
▲ 32%
Prompts won
240
▲ 52
AI Overviews
74
▲ 27%
Share of answer
31%
▲ improving
Citation growthLast period
QueryEngineResultΔ
“best agency for…”ChatGPTCited
“top tools…”Perplexity#1 box
“how do I…”AI OverviewFeatured
By the numbers

The impact we deliver

$103M+
Revenue driven for clients
1.12M+
Tracked Conversions
164+
Projects Delivered
2016
Since
Why GEO now

AI answers now sit above the links

Ahref measured 300,000 desktop keywords in February 2026 and found that when AI Overview appears, click-through for the position-one page is 58% lower. Pew Research’s browser-panel study is the conservative version: 8% of searches with an AI summary produced a click, against 15% without, across 68,879 searches by 900 US adults. Google disputes both and has published no data of its own. Both describe the same shift anyway – the answer is assembled above the links, and the sources it names are the brands that get considered.

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Get Named, Then Get Linked

Being mentioned inside an answer and being cited with a link are different outcomes; both are tracked, and only one sends traffic.

2
Fix The Facts Before the Content

Models build a picture of your brand from every source that describe it, so inconsistent founding dates, addresses and product facts get corrected first.

3
Report Frequency, Not Screenshots

One good answer proves nothing; the same prompts are re-run on a schedule so the number means something.

The fundamentals

What is Generative Engine Optimization?

Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), defined

Generative Engine Optimization is the practice of shaping content and brand signals so generative engine – ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini and Claude – retrieve, trust, cite and recommend your brand inside the answers they generate. It is how a brand stays visible as search shifts from a list of links to a single synthesized response. Generative engines do not return ten blue links. They assemble one answer and name a handful of sources. GEO makes your brand one of those sources through entity clarity, factual consistency, third-party corroboration, and self-contained content a retrieval system can quote without context. The mechanism is indirect and probabilistic -nobody edits the model – which is exactly why the work is measured across repeated runs, not one lucky answer.

Generative engines don’t return a list of links — they synthesize one answer and cite a handful of sources. GEO makes your brand one of those sources by strengthening authority, entity clarity, factual consistency and quotable, self-contained content that models can confidently attribute. It’s the next layer beyond SEO and AEO — and it’s where search is heading fastest.

What we do

Our Generative Engine Optimization services

Everything required to make your brand the source AI engines cite and recommend.

1

AI Citation Building

We structure facts, stats and statements so LLMs quote your brand as a source in their answers across ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews.

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Entity & Authority Signals

We strengthen how AI models understand your brand as an entity — consistent facts, author credentials and E-E-A-T signals models trust.

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3

Content for LLM Retrieval

We write self-contained, quotable, fact-dense content engineered for how AI systems retrieve and synthesize sources.

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4

AI Overviews Optimization

We optimize for Google’s AI Overviews (SGE) so your brand appears in the generative summaries above traditional results.

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5

Perplexity & ChatGPT Visibility

We build the source signals and structured content these tools favor when selecting and citing references.

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6

Structured Data & Schema

We implement rich schema so machines can parse, trust and attribute your content correctly.

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Digital PR & Mentions

We earn authoritative mentions and consistent brand facts across the web that LLMs ingest during training and retrieval.

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GEO Monitoring & Reporting

We track your share of AI answers and citations over time so you can see visibility grow prompt by prompt.

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See how AI describes your brand today

Get a free GEO audit — we’ll show where you’re cited, ignored, or beaten.

How AI engines choose sources

The 6 signals that earn AI citations

We engineer every one of these into your brand’s footprint.

1
Quotable, self-contained facts

Clear statements that make sense out of context — the kind LLMs lift and attribute.

2
Authority & E-E-A-T

Named authors, credentials, experience and trust signals models weight heavily.

3
Entity consistency

The same brand facts everywhere online, so models build a confident picture of who you are.

4
Structured data

Schema that lets machines parse and correctly attribute your content.

5
Third-party validation

Authoritative mentions and citations across the web that models ingest and trust.

6
Fresh, factual content

Current, accurate, well-sourced information models prefer to cite.

Where GEO fits

SEO vs. AEO vs. GEO

Three layers of modern search visibility — you need all three, and we do all three.

 SEOAEOGEO
GoalRank a pageBecome the answerGet cited by AI
SurfaceBlue linksSnippets, PAA, voiceChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews
FormatFull pagesAnswer-first blocksQuotable, source-cited facts
Primary winClicksPosition zeroBrand citations
We deliver itSEOAEO✓ This page

Ready to be the brand AI recommends?

Let’s make your brand the source ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews cite.

Questions, answered

Generative Engine Optimization FAQs

What Is Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)? +
Generative Engine Optimization is the practice of shaping content and brand signals so generative engines – ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini and Claude – retrieve, trust and cite a brand inside the answers they generate. These systems return on synthesized answer naming a handful of sources, rather than a page of ranked links.
How Is GEO Different from SEO And AEO? +
SEO ranks a page among the blue links. AEO wins the featured snippet, People Also Ask box and voice answer on the results page. GEO earns a citation inside an answer generated by ChatGPT, Perplexity or Google AI Overviews. All three rest on the same foundation: retrievable, factually consistent content a machine can parse.
Why Does GEO Matter Now? +
Generative answers now sit above traditional results on a growing share of queries. Ahrefs found an AI Overview correlated with 58% lower click-through for the position-one page across 300,000 desktop keywords in February 2026. Google disputes the finding and has published no supporting data, so Website Pandas quotes both positions rather than one.
How Do AI Engines Decide What to Cite? +
Retrieval systems favor statements that survive out of context: a clear claim, a named source, a date, a number. Entity consistency matters as much – the same founding year, address and product facts everywhere online. Website Pandas audits those facts across a brand’s site, profiles and third-party listings before re-writing a single page.
Can You Get My Brand Mentioned in ChatGPT and Perplexity? +
No agency controls what a model says, and anyone claiming otherwise is selling a guess. The levers are indirect: entity consistency, third-party corroboration, and content structured so a retrieval system can lift a self-contained fact. Output varies by model version and session, so Website Pandas reports frequency across repeated runs, never one screenshot.
How Does Website Pandas Measure GEO Success? +
Website Pandas re-runs a fixed prompt set on a schedule across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Gemini, logging whether the brand is named, named and linked, or absent. AI referral traffic is isolated in GA4 with a custom channel group. Sampling is not a census, and every figure carries its sample size.
Does Schema Markup Help with AI Citations? +
The evidence is genuinely mixed. One controlled test found content inside deliberately invalid JSON-LD still being read as raw text; another found prices that existed only in JSON-LD were retrieved by none of the major systems. Both Point the same way, so Website Pandas never lets a fact live only in schema – it goes in visible copy too.
What Does the Research Actually Show About GEO Tactics? +
The only peer-reviewed casual study is Aggarwal et al., KDD 2024, from Princeton, IIT Delhi, Georgia Tech and the Allen Institute. Adding quotations listed visibility roughly 30 to 40 %, statistics 30 to 37%, cited sources about 30%. Keyword stuffing hurt, and authoritative tone did nothing. It ran on the author’s benchmark engine, not Google.
Does GEO Work for Smaller Brands? +
Often better than for the category leader. In the KDD 2024 study, pages sitting at positions four and five gained up to 115% – the largest movements went to sites that were not already winning. Those magnitudes came from a benchmark engine rather than Google AI Overviews, so Website Pandas treats the direction as credible, not the numbers.
What Does A GEO Engagement Cost? +
There is no published list price for GEO. Scope sets number: how many prompts are tracked, how many pages are rewritten for retrieval, how much entity and citation cleanup a brand needs across third-party sources. Website Pandas runs a free audit first and returns a written scope and quote inside 48 hours.