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We bring your work out of the fog.

The internet is full of noise. SEO and GEO cut through it. We build the search presence that surfaces your work in both Google results and AI answers, so the right people find you.

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Services / SEO & GEO
The Landscape Has Split

The data is clear. Search has fundamentally changed.

60%
of Google searches now show AI Overviews
Semrush, November 2025
97%
of AI Overview citations come from pages already ranking in the top 20
Semrush study of 20,000 URLs, 2025
25%
predicted drop in traditional search volume by end of 2026
Gartner, 2025

Here is what those numbers mean for your organization. A quarter of the search traffic you rely on today is migrating to AI-powered discovery. But the content that gets cited in AI answers is overwhelmingly content that already ranks well organically. You can't skip SEO and go straight to GEO. You need both, working together, from the same strategy.

If your strategy only covers traditional SEO, you're optimizing for half the discovery landscape. If you're only chasing AI citations without organic authority, you're building on sand. We build integrated programs that earn the organic rank first, then structure everything so AI systems cite it as authoritative.

One Engagement, Not Two

There is no standalone GEO program here. There shouldn't be one anywhere.

You will see GEO marketed right now as its own retainer, its own deliverable, its own line on a proposal. We won't do that, and our reasoning is mechanical, not philosophical. When an AI assistant cites a page, that page is overwhelmingly already earning a top organic position on Google for the underlying query. Roughly four out of every five citations come from a page already sitting in the top ten of traditional search results. If your organic ranking is thin, AI search is not a workaround. It is another surface where the same competitor outranks you.

The activities that earn an AI citation are not a separate discipline. They are the same technical, editorial, and trust signals that have always determined whether a page deserves to rank: a clean crawlable site, content marked up so machines can parse what they are reading, sources and dates that survive a fact check, internal navigation that makes your topical depth obvious, and answers structured tightly enough that an assistant can lift them whole. We don't maintain a parallel GEO checklist running alongside an SEO one. There is one program. It is engineered so the same effort earns both the rank and the citation.

Practically, this matters for your budget. A GEO retainer purchased on top of an SEO retainer almost always pays a second fee for the same underlying work — the schema written once is now billed under two scopes, the FAQ block built once is reported against two strategies. The integrated version is not a discount play. It is just the only structure where you are not financing the same hour twice.

What We Build

One program. Two surfaces. The same work earning both.

The two columns below are not two engagements. They are one engagement, shown as the work it produces on Google and the work it produces inside AI answers. SEO builds the authority. GEO structures it so AI systems can retrieve it. We bill them as a single integrated program because that is the only honest way to deliver them.

SEO (Traditional Search)
Technical Audits & Core Web Vitals
Crawlability, indexing, site speed, mobile performance. The foundation everything else depends on.
NLP-Driven Content Strategy
We use SurferSEO's NLP analysis to surface every entity Google expects on a competitive page. Content is built around these signals from Step 1, not retrofitted at the end.
On-Page & Internal Linking
Title tags, heading hierarchy, meta descriptions, and an internal linking architecture that distributes authority where it matters.
Local Search & Map Pack
Google Business Profile optimization, local citations, review strategy. Whether you're in San Diego, Carlsbad, Encinitas, or serving clients nationally.
GEO (AI Discovery)
Schema & Entity Architecture
Structured data that AI systems can parse, understand, and cite. Organization schema, FAQ schema, course schema for training institutes, medical schema for healthcare.
Fact-Dense, Citable Content
AI models cite content that is specific, sourced, and structured. We build every piece to be retrievable by AI search engines, not just indexable by Google.
AI Crawler Access & Verification
Verify how ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, and Claude crawl and index your site. Ensure nothing is blocked that should be accessible.
AI Citation Monitoring
We track and report on your citation frequency across every major AI platform. This is a new metric and we measure it alongside traditional SEO KPIs because in 2026, you need both.
Our Content Process

The AI writes the words. The process determines whether they rank.

At a 9.2% average hallucination rate, an AI-generated article carries statistically significant risk in roughly every other paragraph. The difference between AI content that ranks, gets cited, and builds authority vs. AI content that gets ignored is not the AI. It's the 8-stage process built around it.

1
Keyword & NLP Research
SurferSEO NLP analysis surfaces every entity Google expects. We pull them at Step 1 so every downstream stage builds toward them.
2
Verified Research
Every claim traced to a named, accessible source. AI can confidently state things that are false. We don't let it.
3
Brand Context Load
Your voice, banned terms, style, and differentiators loaded into every generation. AI has no memory of your brand unless you tell it, every single time.
4
Structured Prompt Engineering
The generation instruction is a structured document, not a chat message. This is what separates a useful draft from a generic one.
5
Human Edit & Quality Review
60 to 90 minutes per piece. Factual accuracy, voice compliance, structural integrity, logical flow. This step cannot be skipped.
6
CMS Build
Correct heading hierarchy, image alt text, URL structure. Optimized for both search engines and real readers.
7
Search Optimization
Meta tags, schema markup, internal linking, and content scoring. Done once, in one pass, so the page earns both the Google ranking and the AI citation off the same work.
8
Indexing & Delivery
Submitted to Search Console, prompt version archived, delivery summary with live URL and keyword targeted. Archiving makes the system reproducible.
Results

This process produces measurable outcomes.

350K+
AI citations per quarter from Bing and Microsoft Copilot alone
3,392
direct sessions from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, and Claude
16.1%
lead-to-enrollment conversion rate

These results are from our embedded partnership with EMDR Institute, one of the largest EMDR training organizations in the world. The engagement spans SEO, GEO, content production, video (74 videos in 2025), website development, and marketing automation, generating 969 new leads and 156 training enrollments.

We were doing the work GEO is named after long before the term existed.

Healthcare & Mental Health

We optimize for how people actually search for care: by condition, by symptom, by geography. Across both traditional search engines and AI-powered platforms. When a patient asks Perplexity for "the best EMDR therapist near me," our clients' organizations appear in the answer.

Training Institutes

We target the specific queries professionals use when seeking certification. When a therapist asks ChatGPT "What's the best EMDR training program?" our client's institute is cited by name. That's the integrated program doing its job.

Nonprofits

Mission-driven organizations need visibility without enterprise budgets. We build search strategies that punch above their weight, with nonprofit-rate pricing on every hour.

Get Started

Find out where your organization stands in both search and AI discovery.

One conversation. We'll show you exactly where you're ranking, where you're being cited, and where the gaps are.

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