> Source: https://aiseo42.com/geo/ > Updated: 2026-08-27 > GEO done for you: we get your business mentioned and cited in the answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini and Google AI. With a monthly report. GEO # Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) Updated: 27 August 2026 In short Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is the work that gets a business to appear inside the answers AI assistants give: named, quoted, cited as a source. It doesn't rank a link — it gets you into the answer itself. aiseo42 does this done-for-you across five answer engines — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini and Google AI Overviews — with a monthly report on where you stand and who stands in your place. [Get a free AI check](https://aiseo42.com/contact/) [I'd read up first](https://aiseo42.com/blog/) ## What is generative engine optimization? Classic search optimization aims for a position on a results page. Generative engine optimization aims to put you inside the **answer the model writes** — because that is often all the user reads now. If the answer names three companies and you are not one of them, you effectively don't exist in that decision, no matter where you rank on the traditional list. The two are not the same work, and one does not substitute for the other. Ranking first on Google **guarantees no AI citation at all**: answer engines pick sources on different signals, and they routinely pull in pages that sit further down the classic ranking. That is why we treat it as separate work — and measure it separately. GEO is also not a one-off setup. Models get updated, competitors publish, and a source that is cited today can drop out in six months. This is continuous work with continuous measurement: that is what the monthly report is for. ## How do you know you need GEO? If two of these are true for you, there is something to win here — and the free aiseo42 check measures exactly that, with no commitment. ### AI lists your competitors You type your market's typical buying question into ChatGPT and get three or four companies back — and you are not among them. This is the most common and most expensive case: the decision happens before your name is ever spoken. ### Traffic falls while positions hold Search Console positions are stable, clicks keep shrinking. That is the signature of zero-click search: the user gets the answer on the results page and never comes through. ### It says something wrong or outdated about you Assistants quote an old price, a discontinued service, or confuse you with another company. Here the problem isn't visibility but an inaccurate machine picture of you — and only content can fix that. ### Strong service, few sources about you If barely anything on the web factually describes what you do and for whom, the model has nothing to cite. Knowing your craft isn't enough: it has to be available in machine-readable form too. ## What do you get? ### Presence inside the answers We work to get your company named in the AI answers to the real buying questions in your market — as a mention, a quote or a cited source. ### Five engines, handled separately ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini and Google AI Overviews. Each selects sources differently, so we track each one separately and report on each separately. ### A monthly report with numbers Which questions you show up for, which you don't, how that moved since last month, and who gets named instead of you. A simple table, not a tool login. ### Done for you No dashboard, no course, no homework. You do your job, we do the work, and at the end of the month we tell you where we are. aiseo42 does not publish its method and does not sell a course built on it. The advantage it creates is an advantage precisely because your competitor cannot see it. ## When should you not choose us? - **If you expect results tomorrow.** Source selection in AI answers moves slowly; the first meaningful change is typically weeks, not days. Anyone promising an instant jump is either measuring something else or not telling the truth. - **If your offer isn't ready.** Visibility amplifies whatever is there. If the offer is weak, more reach only brings the rejections in faster. - **If the website itself is the obstacle.** If content only appears after JavaScript runs, the site is slow, or there is no site at all, that has to be fixed first — we [can build it](https://aiseo42.com/website-development/), but we don't start there under a GEO contract. - **If you want to be taught.** We don't run training and we don't hand over a playbook. If you're building an in-house team, an educator is the better partner — we do the work instead. ## How will you know it works? At the start we record a baseline: what the engines answer today to your market's typical buying questions, and who gets named. That is month zero, and every later measurement is read against it — without it any later number is meaningless, because there is nothing to compare it to. From then on we run the same questions the same way every month. Alongside your own appearances, the report shows **who gets named instead of you** — often more useful than your own number, because it tells you who you have to close the gap on. We also report the signals measurable on your own site: whether the answer engines' crawlers reach your content, and whether visitors already arrive directly from AI surfaces. Both come from your server or your own analytics — verifiable, not estimated. This site is a sample of the work: a [machine-readable index](https://aiseo42.com/llms.txt), a markup-free text version of every page, complete structured data in the raw HTML. We don't promise anything we can't do on ourselves. ## What else is worth reading? ### [AEO — Answer Engine Optimization](https://aiseo42.com/aeo/) When you're after the direct answer rather than a mention: the reply should be written from your content. ### [AI SEO](https://aiseo42.com/ai-seo/) The wider AI-era search surface: AI Overviews, answer boxes and the classic ranking that feeds them. ### [What is generative engine optimization?](https://aiseo42.com/blog/what-is-generative-engine-optimization/) A longer, plain-language explanation of the term, with examples — if you'd rather read up first. ## Frequently asked questions What is the difference between GEO and SEO? SEO aims to place one of your pages high on a results list. GEO aims to get your business named inside the answer the AI writes. The two turn on different signals: ranking first on Google guarantees no AI citation, and models often cite a page that ranks lower. How long until results show? The first measurable movement usually appears within weeks, but stable presence takes months of work. Answer engines shift their source selection more slowly than a traditional ranking, so from month one the report shows the direction, not the destination. What do I have to do on my own site if we work together? No, and that is deliberate. The method is what gives you the advantage; publishing it would be working for your competitors. The results are measured and shown to you monthly, so you don't have to take anything on faith — the numbers are verifiable. Which engines does the work cover? Five: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini and Google AI Overviews. Each selects sources with different logic, so we track them separately and report them separately. How much does GEO cost, and what drives the price? aiseo42 keeps no public price list, because GEO pricing turns on three things: how many answer engines and buyer questions you need to be present for, how ready your current site is for machine reading, and whether new content is required. Every engagement starts with a free AI visibility check; the quote follows from what it finds, as a fixed sum rather than an hourly rate. Do you need access to my website? The check needs no access at all — the domain is enough. What access the work itself needs depends on its nature; the proposal spells that out in advance, item by item. ## Let's see what AI says about you today The check is free, and the findings stay yours even if you never ask us for a proposal. [Get a free AI check](https://aiseo42.com/contact/)