AI SEO services for the search that answers back.

AI SEO is the work that helps AI-powered search understand, trust and cite your business. It covers answer engine optimization (AEO) for Google AI Overviews, featured snippets and People Also Ask, and generative engine optimization (GEO) for ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude. The same foundation that earns classic rankings supports both: clear answers, checkable facts, schema markup and consistent business details.

SEO targets classic Google and Bing results: the blue links and the Map Pack. AEO targets answer surfaces such as Google AI Overviews, featured snippets and People Also Ask. GEO targets generative engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude that build answers from the open web. Buyers move between all three before they contact a business, and one foundation supports each layer: clean technical architecture, strong entity signals, original answers, schema, reviews and backlinks.

Yes. Google’s AI Overviews appear at the very top of the results, before ads and before organic listings, and they show up on local service searches too. In 44 different searches, Google’s AI recommended Sarkinen Plumbing before showing any ads or traditional results.

No. AI search optimization is part of every SEO program Lithium runs, not an add-on or a standalone audit. Local SEO retainers typically run $1,300 to $3,000 a month, scoped against your revenue per lead, and service agreements typically start with six months, then renew monthly with 30 days’ cancellation notice.

No. No one controls what an AI system says, and an agency that guarantees an AI mention is guessing. What we guarantee is the work: answer-first pages, validated schema, consistent business facts across the web, topical depth and monthly reporting that shows what changed.

We make every source an AI engine reads about you agree, then write pages that answer buyer questions directly with specific facts. Generative engines build their picture of a business from everything they can crawl: the website, Google Business Profile, reviews, directories and other mentions. Topical depth shows you know your category, and together that makes your business easier to understand and cite.

Monthly reports track AI-search referrals, AI Overview appearances on your tracked keywords and the leads they produce, next to classic rankings, Map Pack visibility and conversion rate. That tracking is how we can show that Google’s AI recommended Sarkinen Plumbing first in 44 different searches, and that Dixie Glass was featured in AI-generated results for 39 different queries.

The groundwork goes live in the first phase of the SEO program, and technical fixes usually move within 30 days. That phase covers answer-first rewrites of key pages, validated schema, llms.txt and business listing cleanup. How quickly AI answers change after that depends on your market and your competitors, so we report movement every month instead of promising a date.

Not on its own. An llms.txt file tells AI crawlers which content on your site they can use, and robots.txt rules for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and Google-Extended set which AI systems can access it. Both control access. The answers themselves come from your content, your schema and the consistency of your business facts across the web.