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AI search optimization

Be in the answer when customers ask AI who to hire.

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Customers now ask AI who to hire, and they get a short list

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Find out whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews name your organization, and what to fix first.

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AI search optimization is the work of getting a business found, cited, and recommended by AI platforms such as ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Gemini, and Copilot. CICOR Marketing delivers it as one monthly plan with two parts. Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) makes your pages the direct answer to the questions customers ask. Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) makes the platforms recognize and recommend your business as an entity. Plans are a flat monthly fee sized to your site, run on the Digital Authority System, and are tested against your target questions every month.

A homeowner asks ChatGPT for a roofer who handles insurance claims. A clinic manager asks Gemini which billing companies serve small practices. Each gets three names and a reason, and never sees a page of results. If you are not in that short list, you are invisible to that buyer.

Google is still the first front door. AI search is the second, and it reads different signals. AI search optimization is the AI Services work that builds those signals, and it has two parts.

Who It Fits

Who this is for, and who it is not

This plan fits a business with a working website and a dozen questions its customers ask before they buy: home services, healthcare and dental, legal, financial services, and professional firms. It fits one location or many.

It is not the right fit for a site that cannot be crawled, a business with no content to work from, or an owner who wants a result by a date. AI platforms re-evaluate slowly, and we will not promise a citation or a timeline.

What Is Included

Two Halves Of AI Search Optimization

CONTENT

Make each page the answer

Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) works page by page. For each question your customers ask, we build or rewrite a page with a clear answer under the heading and a FAQ block behind it. When a platform is asked that question, your page is the one it can lift, quote, and credit. AEO is the right starting point when AI platforms already know your business but quote someone else’s page for the questions you should own.

FOUNDATION

Make the platforms know who you are

Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) works on the business as a whole. We make your name, address, and services match everywhere they appear. We add Organization, Person, and Service schema, publish llms.txt, and plan the outside mentions that AI models treat as proof. The result is a business the web agrees on, which is the one an AI will recommend. GEO is the right starting point when the platforms do not name you at all, or when they confuse you with someone else.

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How it sits on top of SEO

AI search optimization sits on top of search engine optimization. It does not replace it. A page that an AI platform quotes must first be a page that Google can crawl, index, and trust. The same foundation, content, and authority signals feed both. That is why we manage them together.

If your site has never had SEO work, the Search Engine Optimization plan builds the foundation and this plan adds the AI layer. If the on-site work is done and the platforms still prefer a competitor, the missing piece is usually outside mentions. Digital PR and Authority Building pairs with this plan for that reason.

Why It Matters

Why CICOR Marketing for AI search

We run this work on our own site. CICOR Marketing publishes its own llms.txt file and structures its own pages the way it recommends to clients. Every plan follows the Digital Authority System, the framework behind every website, content program, and AI visibility engagement we deliver.

CICOR Marketing has worked in marketing and IT since 1997 and was building AI search readiness before AEO and GEO had names. The plan on this page is his method.

Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

AI search optimization is the work of getting a business found, cited, and recommended by AI platforms such as ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Gemini, and Copilot. It has two parts. Answer Engine Optimization makes each page the direct answer to a question. Generative Engine Optimization makes the platforms recognize the business as an entity. CICOR Marketing delivers both in one monthly plan.

Yes. GEO sits on top of SEO and does not replace it. AI platforms draw on the same signals Google uses: a site that can be crawled, pages that answer questions, and other sites that vouch for you. If those are missing, GEO has nothing to build on. CICOR Marketing manages SEO and AI search optimization together so the same work feeds both.

AI search optimization takes months, not weeks. Month one sets the baseline and the priority pages. On-page and entity work ships in monthly batches from month two. The monthly citation check shows movement against the baseline questions. AI platforms re-evaluate slowly and answers vary by session, so CICOR Marketing reports movement every month rather than promising a date.

AEO works on each page and GEO works on the whole business. Answer Engine Optimization structures a page so an AI platform can quote it as the answer to a specific question. Generative Engine Optimization makes the platforms recognize and recommend the business by name. CICOR Marketing delivers both in one plan, starting with GEO when the platforms do not yet know the business.

AI search optimization from CICOR Marketing is a flat monthly fee set by three things: the number of priority pages in scope, the number of locations, and whether the plan is paired with a Digital PR retainer. The figure comes in a short written quote after one call, and the AI Visibility Audit comes first so the quote is built on what the platforms say today.

Ready When You Are

Find out which answers you are missing

Before anyone builds a plan, you should know which questions already name you, which name a competitor, and why. The AI Visibility Audit answers that in about a week for a fixed fee, and you keep the report either way.