AI Search Visibility: Get Cited by ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity & Copilot
People now ask an assistant instead of scrolling ten blue links. If your business is not in the answer, you are not in the consideration set. We structure your site so AI engines can read it, trust it, and name you.
What Makes a Site Citable
HTML on First Byte
Most AI crawlers do not run JavaScript. Our sites are server-rendered, so the full answer is in the HTML the crawler actually receives.
Answer-First Content
Each page leads with a direct, quotable answer in the first 40 to 60 words — the shape assistants prefer to lift and attribute.
Structured Data Everywhere
Organization, LocalBusiness, Service, FAQPage, and Breadcrumb schema tell engines exactly what you do and where, without ambiguity.
Consistent Entity Signals
Name, address, phone, hours, and service claims match across your site, your profiles, and your citations so models see one coherent entity.
Crawler Access Managed
robots.txt and llms.txt are configured deliberately: the engines you want are welcomed, the scrapers you do not are not.
Citation Tracking
We run your target questions against the major assistants monthly and report where you appear, where a competitor does, and what to fix.
Engines and Work We Cover
- ChatGPT and GPT-powered search
- Google AI Overviews and AI Mode
- Google Gemini
- Perplexity
- Anthropic Claude
- Microsoft Copilot and Bing generative results
- Server-side rendering and pre-render audits
- JSON-LD schema implementation across every page
- FAQ and question-cluster content built for voice and chat
- llms.txt and robots.txt crawler policy
- Entity and NAP consistency cleanup
- Monthly AI citation and share-of-answer reporting
How We Build AI Visibility
- Step 1
Crawl as an AI Bot
We fetch your pages the way GPTBot and PerplexityBot do — no JavaScript — and show you exactly what they currently see.
- Step 2
Fix the Render and Schema Layer
Server rendering, metadata, and structured data get corrected first, because no amount of content helps a page a crawler cannot read.
- Step 3
Write the Answers
We build question-led content around the prompts your buyers actually type, each with a concise extractable answer up top.
- Step 4
Measure and Repeat
Monthly prompt testing across every major assistant shows movement, and the next month's content is aimed at the gaps.
Simple, Fixed Pricing
Two plans. No setup surprises, no per-hour billing, no long-term contract.
Website Design
$300 setup + $100/month
Up to 10 pages, hosting, security, and ongoing website care. You own your website.
Website + Growth
$300/month
Everything in the website plan plus SEO, AEO, GEO, blogging, and monthly reporting.
AI Search Visibility Questions
How much does AI search visibility cost?
It is included in the Website + Growth plan at $300/month alongside SEO, local SEO, blogging, and reporting. Websites we build on the $300 setup + $100/month plan ship with the technical AEO foundation already in place.
Can you guarantee ChatGPT will recommend my business?
No honest agency can guarantee that, because model output varies by prompt, user, and session. What we can do is make you the best-structured, most citable option for your category and track how often you actually get named.
Why does my WordPress site not get cited?
Usually slow response times, thin or duplicated content, and missing or broken structured data. Heavy plugin stacks also bury the answer under markup an extractor has to fight through.
How long does it take to appear in AI answers?
Technical fixes can show up within weeks because crawlers revisit fast. Building enough topical authority to be named consistently for competitive questions typically takes three to six months.
What is llms.txt?
A plain-text file at your domain root that tells large language model crawlers what your site is about and which content matters most. We publish and maintain one for every site we manage.
Is AEO different from SEO?
They overlap but differ in target. SEO optimizes for a ranked list of links. AEO and GEO optimize to be the sentence the assistant says out loud, with your name attached.
Engine-Specific Guides
How to Rank on ChatGPT
What it takes to be named in ChatGPT answers.
How to Rank on Perplexity
Citation mechanics for Perplexity results.
How to Rank on Gemini
Optimizing for Google Gemini responses.
How to Rank on Claude
Getting surfaced inside Claude answers.
How to Rank on Copilot
Microsoft Copilot and Bing generative visibility.
Google AI Mode
Showing up in AI Overviews and AI Mode.
From the desk of our team
Attributed to The Real Social Company — Founder & Lead Strategist · 23+ years
What we've actually seen
Across 500+ Columbus engagements since 2002, the businesses that win are not the ones with the prettiest site or the loudest ads — they're the ones who treat their website, SEO, and AI-search presence as a single connected system.
Where most projects go wrong
Most projects fail because the website, SEO, and content all live in different vendors' heads. By month three, nobody owns the outcome and rankings flatline.
Our take
We build, optimize, and maintain everything in-house. One team, one number to call, one set of dashboards. That's the only way we've found to keep results compounding past the 6-month mark.
Our numbers on this
Pulled from our own Columbus client engagements — not industry averages.
23+
Years in Columbus
Founded 2002
500+
Businesses served
Central Ohio
95+
Avg PageSpeed
Across new builds
0.8s
Median load time
AI-built React sites