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AI SEO & AEO agency.
Built for the new search era.

We're a specialist AEO agency (answer engine optimization) built for the new search era. Your customers are asking ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google's AI Overviews, not just searching Google. We optimize your brand to get cited, quoted, and recommended across every AI answer engine your buyers actually use. Traditional SEO + AEO + GEO, under one senior team.

We build search presence for the AI era.

Ask our clients what it's like working with SEOArmy and they'll tell you two things: we care deeply about their results, and we treat their business like it's our own. For us, real growth comes from real strategy, not vanity metrics, recycled templates, or agencies that disappear after the contract is signed.

SEOArmy has been building search-driven growth for businesses for 13+ years. We've navigated every major algorithm shift, from Panda to BERT to AI Mode, and evolved into the AI search era ahead of most agencies because we've always followed where search was actually going, not where the trend reports said it was.

We work with a deliberately small roster of clients. Every engagement gets a dedicated senior strategist, a genuine campaign built around your specific business goals, and reporting that connects directly to leads and revenue, not just keyword rankings. For service businesses with geographic markets, we pair AEO with local SEO and Google Business Profile optimization so you show up in both AI answers and the map pack.

The shift happening right now

+400%

Growth in AI-driven search traffic year over year. High-intent buyers are moving from Google queries to ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini conversations, and they're still clicking through to websites when the AI cites you as a source and the context matches their buyer intent.

  • ChatGPT serves 800M+ weekly users in 2025
  • Perplexity crossed 15M monthly users and growing 40% MoM
  • Gemini is embedded across every Google product surface
  • AI search referral traffic projected to rival Google by 2027

Every answer engine
your buyers actually use.

Each AI engine has its own ranking signals, citation patterns, and content preferences. We optimize for all of them, not just the one everyone talks about.

ChatGPT

The default AI answer engine. We optimize your brand to be cited in conversational and comparison queries, the way ChatGPT actually surfaces recommendations.

800M+ weekly users

Perplexity

Citation-heavy AI search that always shows sources. Perfect for brands with strong content authority. We make sure you're one of the sources it cites.

15M+ monthly users

Gemini

Google's AI, embedded across Search, Workspace, Android, and Chrome. Winning Gemini means compounding across Google's entire product ecosystem.

Native in every Google product

Google AI Overviews

Google's AI-generated answer at the top of search results, now across most commercial queries. Brands cited in the Overview earn premium trust signals and direct clickthroughs, when your content is structured for extraction and your authority is strong.

Prime real estate on Google

National & global brands
ready for AI search.

Our AI SEO and AEO practice serves category leaders with audiences across the US or globally. If you're competing in search for terms that don't have "near me" attached, you're in the right place.

01, SaaS

SaaS & B2B Software

SaaS buyers ask AI for comparisons, integrations, and use cases before they visit a single website. We make your product the answer, across comparison queries, alternative searches, and feature-specific prompts.

Horizontal SaaSVertical SaaSDevToolsAPI-first

02, eCOMMERCE

eCommerce & DTC Brands

AI is rewriting product discovery. "Best hiking backpack for rain" used to mean 10 blue links, now it's a single AI recommendation. We engineer your catalog, reviews, and buying guides to be the one it picks.

DTCShopifyMarketplacesNiche retail

03, FINTECH

Fintech & Financial Platforms

Fintech is the most AI-dependent vertical for discovery, users ask AI about loans, brokers, neobanks, and cards before ever searching directly. YMYL-compliant AEO that keeps you in the answer without the compliance risk.

NeobanksLendingBrokeragesPayments

04, HEALTHCARE TECH

Healthtech & Digital Health

Telehealth, digital therapeutics, health platforms, AI diagnostics, categories where AI search is the first place patients and clinicians turn. We build the medical authority signals that earn the citation.

TelehealthDigital therapeuticsHealth AIWearables

05, EDTECH

EdTech & Online Learning

Course discovery and learning platform selection happens almost entirely through AI now. We make your platform, programs, and learning paths the default recommendation for every skill-building query.

MOOCsCert platformsK-12 EdTechHigher ed

06, MEDIA & PUBLISHERS

Media, Publishers & Creators

AI search is rewriting content discovery for media brands. We rebuild publisher content architecture for the AI era, earning citations that route high-intent readers back to your site, with brand mentions that compound across every AI engine your audience uses.

Digital publishersB2B mediaNewslettersCreator brands

07, MARKETPLACES

Marketplaces & Aggregators

Two-sided marketplaces live or die on supply/demand discovery. AI search is rewriting both sides. We build the query-layer authority that makes your platform the marketplace AI recommends for any category.

B2B marketplacesService platformsGig economyNiche verticals

08, ENTERPRISE B2B

Enterprise B2B & Professional Services

The B2B buying committee runs on AI research. CFOs, CTOs, and procurement teams ask AI for vendors, validation, and risk assessment before you ever know they exist. We get you into those conversations.

ConsultingEnterprise softwareIndustrialServices

09, KNOWLEDGE BRANDS

Knowledge-Driven Brands

Thought leadership, research firms, analyst brands, niche authorities. You already have the expertise, we structure it so AI recognizes and cites you as the definitive source in your space.

Research firmsAnalyst brandsNiche authoritiesThink tanks

What an AI SEO engagement
actually looks like.

Every AI SEO / AEO client gets the same three-layer treatment. No templates, no "we'll get back to you on that." Senior strategist, weekly reporting, results tied to revenue.

01

AI visibility audit

We start by running your brand through 50-200 real buyer prompts across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. Most businesses score near zero. The audit tells us exactly where you're missing, and why.

  • Prompt-level citation tracking
  • Competitive AI benchmark
  • Gap analysis with fix priorities
02

Authority & content architecture

AI engines cite what they trust. We rebuild your content architecture for AI extractability, schema markup, entity optimization, structured answers, authority signals, citations. Your content starts showing up in the answers.

  • AEO content frameworks
  • Schema + entity optimization
  • Authority signal engineering
03

Measurement & compound scaling

Unlike traditional SEO, AI search visibility requires constant prompt-level monitoring. We track every citation, every recommendation, and every mention across every engine, tied directly to revenue signals, not vanity metrics.

  • Weekly AI citation tracking
  • Revenue attribution modeling
  • Continuous prompt expansion

AI SEO & AEO
FAQs.

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) targets traditional ranked lists on Google and Bing. AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) targets AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini that surface a single cited answer. GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) is a newer term used interchangeably with AEO. We handle all three under one strategy because they share 70% of the underlying work, authority, structured content, topical depth, but differ in how they surface and rank your brand.
Yes, but the timeline and strategy differ from Google. ChatGPT cites based on training data + real-time web search, which means content structure, authority signals, and brand mentions across the open web all matter. We've moved clients from zero citations to consistent recommendation in 60-120 days for commercial queries.
We track four things: (1) citation rate across a portfolio of buyer prompts, (2) share of voice vs. named competitors in AI answers, (3) referral traffic from Perplexity, ChatGPT, and AI Overviews, and (4) revenue attribution from AI-sourced visitors. Every client gets a weekly dashboard with these metrics, and we tie every marketing dollar back to a real revenue signal, not ranking screenshots.
Absolutely. Most of our AI SEO work has a double benefit, it lifts both AI citation rates AND traditional Google rankings because both rely on the same underlying authority and content quality signals. We never do AEO in isolation. Every engagement covers classic SEO fundamentals, technical site health, and AI-layer optimization together. For local businesses, that includes Google Business Profile optimization; for national brands, it means deep content architecture and authority building.
For national and global AI SEO work, we focus on SaaS, eCommerce, fintech, healthtech, edtech, media, marketplaces, enterprise B2B, and knowledge brands. For local businesses, we serve five specific verticals through our industry-focused local practice, home services, health & wellness, financial services, automotive, and real estate & vacation rentals. If you're in a vertical we don't list, we'll be upfront about whether we're the right fit.
Pricing depends on vertical, scope, and competitive intensity. Every engagement is custom-quoted based on project complexity, the traffic and lead value in your market, average lifetime customer value, our service costs, and other factors specific to your business. Qualified prospects get a detailed proposal during their free first month. Every qualified prospect gets a custom ROI projection and full scope before any commitment, with a free first month so both sides can confirm the fit before signing.

Related services

AEO doesn't replace SEO. It compounds it.

For most clients, AI SEO pairs naturally with local SEO and GBP optimization (for service businesses) or traditional national SEO (for SaaS, ecom, and enterprise). Many also run a PPC agency engagement across Google, Meta, and LinkedIn for immediate pipeline while AEO compounds.

Round it out with organic social media for brand authority and marketing automation with custom CRMs to catch and convert every lead. See proven SEO results or start with a free AI visibility audit.

Ready for AI search?

Get cited. Get chosen.
Get traffic.

Qualified national and global brands get a free month, full AI visibility audit, custom AEO strategy, and ROI projection before any commitment.

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