AEO AGENCY
AEO Agency: Answer Engine Optimisation Services
AEO for law firms, clinics, premium builders, cybersecurity firms and enterprises whose buyers ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity or Google who to trust. As an AEO agency, we work to make your company the answer they hear, then turn it into high-intent leads.
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TLDR
The AEO agency that builds the answer and measures the enquiry.
AI engines name companies whose facts they can check, and answer engine optimisation makes your facts easy to check. Searchmaxxed is an AEO agency that also does GEO, LLM SEO and technical SEO. We see what ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google's AI features say about you. Then we build answer pages, schema and entity fixes on your website, which you own. Off it, we earn reviews, citations and mentions that agree with them. Then we measure the enquiries that follow.
Technical SEO and on-page SEO
With technical SEO and on-page SEO, we fix whatever stops Google and the AI engines reading your site, then build the comparison, industry and integration pages your buyers are already searching for. It all sits on a website you own, connected to Search Console and GA4, so you can see which pages bring in enquiries.
AI SEO, GEO and AEO
Through AI SEO, GEO and AEO, we make your pages and the facts about your company the ones ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google's AI answers quote. We keep checking what those answers say about you, and fix whatever keeps your name out.
Link building, reviews and citations
Through link building and digital PR, we earn the links, reviews, citations, press and mentions that back up your pages on other sites. Google ranks pages with that backing, and AI answers recommend companies that other sources agree on.
THE PROBLEM
Why don't AI answers name your company?
AI engines name companies whose facts they can check, and many websites make that hard. Services come wrapped in adjectives. Credentials sit in a PDF, and the address disagrees with the business profile. Google says a page must be indexed and eligible for a snippet before AI Overviews or AI Mode can link it. Past that gate, the answer goes to the business that states its facts plainly and has other sites agreeing. So when your buyer asks who to trust, they hear a competitor's name.
THE DISCIPLINES
What does an AEO agency do for a company?
An AEO agency should make your company the answer an engine can verify. We do it with four jobs, all run by one team.
Your pages answer the buying questions first
One page, one buying question, answered in the opening lines.
We pull buying questions from your Search Console data and live Google results, then check who answers them in ChatGPT and Google today. For each question worth winning, we build a page on your website. The answer sits in the opening lines, in plain words, so an engine can lift one paragraph and still quote you right.
Buying-question mapAnswer-first pagesFAQ blocksComparison pages
Facts that engines and visitors read the same way
Schema that matches the words a visitor can see.
We put your services, service areas, licences, founders and hours into plain text and matching structured data. Google tells site owners to make structured data match the visible text. We do both together, so the engine and the visitor see the same fact.
Organization schemaService schemaPerson schemaFact tables
Every record tells the same story
One fact record for the business, its people, places and offers.
We map your legal and trading names, founders, services, locations and service areas into one fact record. Then we line up your own pages with it and correct the outside records we can reach. Google lists an up-to-date Business Profile among its basics for AI features.
Entity mapCanonical fact recordBusiness ProfileDirectory cleanup
Outside sources that back up what you say
Reviews, citations, press and community mentions that back up your claims.
AI answers favour companies that other sites back up, so we build that backing. We earn reviews, directory citations, editorial links, press and community mentions that match your fact record. We log whether each source is live, fetched or naming you, then choose the next one.
Genuine reviewsCitations and profilesEditorial mentionsDigital PRCommunity threads
EVERY MONTH
What do you get from AEO with Searchmaxxed each month?
AEO comes in every managed Searchmaxxed plan. The page work lives on your website, and the outside work happens on the sites AI answers already trust.
Answer tracking per platform
We run a fixed panel of your buying questions through ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google's AI features. We record which companies appear and which pages each answer links. Google says AI Overviews and AI Mode can use different models, so their links vary. Your package sets the platforms, and Agentic Search Engineering tracks all four.
Buying-question panelBrand and competitor presenceLinked source mapChange log
Answer pages
We build new pages and rebuild weak ones around single buying questions. Each page opens with a direct answer, then adds detail, proof and a clear way to enquire. We choose which questions come first, and internal links tie each answer to the service that sells it.
New answer pagesRebuilt service pagesComparison pagesInternal links
Schema and fact tables
We add structured data for the business, its people and its services. Then we check it against the visible text, because Google asks for that match. Key facts also sit in plain tables an engine can lift whole.
Organization and Service schemaPerson schema for foundersPlain-text fact tablesSchema and visible-text checks
Crawler access
An engine can't quote a page it can't reach. We check robots.txt, CDN and hosting rules for Googlebot and OpenAI's OAI-SearchBot. OpenAI says sites that opt out of OAI-SearchBot won't show in ChatGPT search answers, apart from navigational links. Google names robots.txt and CDN access among its AI feature basics too.
robots.txt reviewCDN and firewall rulesSnippet controlsText-first rendering
Link building and digital PR
Each month we add outside sources that agree with your fact record. The mix follows your buyers, your competitors and the sources AI answers already link in your market. Your package sets the scope, from citations and reviews to qualified links and press.
Citations and profilesGenuine reviewsQualified linksPress releasesReddit engagement
Enquiry measurement
We judge AEO by enquiries. Google includes AI Overviews and AI Mode traffic in the Search Console Performance report, under the Web search type. We join that with GA4 landing pages and your enquiry records, then compare like-for-like periods each month.
Search Console Web dataGA4 landing pagesEnquiry trackingMonthly decision memo
HOW IT WORKS
How does AEO with Searchmaxxed work?
AEO with Searchmaxxed runs in four steps, and each month's results show what to build next.
- STEP 01
Measure
We pull Search Console queries, GA4 landing pages, rankings and live Google results into one place. We also study competitor pages and check what AI answers say about you and about them. - STEP 02
Find the gap and rank it
We find the reason behind each gap: a missing answer page, a blocked crawler, a fact that disagrees or no outside source. Then we rank the fixes by closeness to enquiries, strength of evidence and cost. - STEP 03
Build what gets you named
We build the page, schema, entity fix or outside source that gets you named. It goes live on a site you own. - STEP 04
Check and learn
We check the live page and the crawl evidence, then run the answer checks again. What we learn sets the next job.
PROOF
The search foundation AEO depends on, proven in live work.
PROOF
More than $15 million
Searchmaxxed's work has generated more than $15 million in revenue through search for its clients.
Read the case study →CLIENT STORY
Page one in three months
One client came to us with a website that wasn't working. Three months later he was on page one for one of the most competitive searches in his industry. Now he has more high-intent leads than he can handle, and we're building the systems to handle them.
PACKAGES
How much does AEO cost with Searchmaxxed?
Every managed Searchmaxxed plan includes AEO, alongside technical SEO, on-page SEO and off-page SEO. Local Search suits multi-location companies. Growth System takes more of the buying searches in your market, with citation, profile and review basics and AI visibility tracking. Agentic Search Engineering goes after your whole category, with digital PR and answer tracking across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and AI Overviews. Custom & Enterprise adds several markets, dedicated engineering and custom reporting. The pricing page lists what each plan includes. Start with a free growth plan.
What every package includes
Every plan includes all of this. We handle it end to end, from the strategy to the work itself.
- ✓You always know where you stand. Your AI visibility, technical health, gaps and openings, checked all the time.
- ✓Revenue comes first. A 90-day plan that puts the work worth the most at the top.
- ✓Done for you. Pages, technical fixes, schema, internal links and authority, built and put live by us.
- ✓Results you can take to the board. Rankings, AI answers, enquiries and revenue, measured against your competitors in a monthly decision memo.
- ✓Straight to the people doing the work. No account managers, no handoffs.
- ✓Numbers you can trust. Search Console and GA4 set up and checked, so every claim traces back to a number.
- ✓It compounds. Your site keeps improving as the market shows us what your buyers want.
- ✓You own everything. Site, repository, content and data are yours from day one. No lock-in beyond the term.
GROWTH SYSTEM
SEO, AI SEO and GEO for growing companies. We go after more of the buying searches in your market, on a fast, clean site that keeps the ground it wins.
We'll recommend the right scope and quote for your company.
Start with the Full Build or the Agentic Migration
The AI SEO Audit is credited in full when you start within 14 days.
What the Growth System adds
- ✓New and rebuilt pages every month, each one aimed at a search your buyers make
- ✓Your key landing pages tuned to turn more visits into enquiries
- ✓A fast, clean site that Google and the AI engines can read, with schema and internal links kept tight
- ✓Citations, profiles and reviews that back you up
- ✓Every month, we go after a qualified link that backs you up
- ✓Your name in the Reddit threads your buyers read
- ✓See how often AI answers name you, in your monthly decision memo
- ✓Every new page checked for its place in Google's index
MOST FIREPOWER
AGENTIC SEARCH ENGINEERING
SEO, AI SEO, GEO and AEO at full scale. We go after your whole category in Google and AI answers, with the digital PR and links to back it.
We'll recommend the right scope and quote for your company.
Everything in the Growth System, at full scale
Starts from a site built for search: the Full Build, the Agentic Migration, or a site that passes the audit.
Everything in Growth System, plus
- ✓Our biggest monthly push of new and rebuilt pages, so you cover more of your market
- ✓Comparison, industry and integration pages for buyers choosing between you and a competitor
- ✓Site-wide content and technical health, checked continuously
- ✓A press release written and distributed every month
- ✓Continuous digital PR and qualified link campaigns
- ✓Your name in more of the Reddit threads your buyers read
- ✓See where ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and AI Overviews name you, and where they name a competitor
- ✓A quarterly competitor review your executives can act on
- ✓A quarterly proof piece built from your own wins, made to earn links
RELATED
Services that complete the search system.
SERVICE
SEO
The rankings, technical foundation and pages that AEO is built on.
See service →SERVICE
AI Content Strategy
More content, faster, with answers AI can quote and nothing that clutters your site.
See service →SERVICE
Reddit Marketing
A genuine presence in the threads and recommendations AI engines read and quote.
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How is Searchmaxxed different from a typical AEO agency?
Every row below is checkable. Ask any agency you are shortlisting the same nine questions and write down what they say.
WHO DOES THE WORK
SEARCHMAXXEDThe people you met on the call, with their AI agents behind them
TYPICAL AEO AGENCYAn account manager relaying your questions to a junior
WHAT YOU GET
SEARCHMAXXEDMore of the buying searches and AI answers that bring you pipeline
TYPICAL AEO AGENCYA report, a check-in call and a few blog posts
SPEED
SEARCHMAXXEDProblems caught and fixed fast, with your live data deciding the next move
TYPICAL AEO AGENCYA quarterly audit and a monthly summary
AI SEARCH
SEARCHMAXXEDA fixed set of buyer questions tracked in ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and AI Overviews every month
TYPICAL AEO AGENCYNot covered, or sold to you later as an add-on
THE WEBSITE
SEARCHMAXXEDBuilt and engineered for search from the first commit
TYPICAL AEO AGENCYYour existing site, worked around
WHERE CLAIMS ARE VERIFIED
SEARCHMAXXEDYour own Search Console and GA4, and the live SERP itself
TYPICAL AEO AGENCYScreenshots from a dashboard you cannot open
WHAT MOVES ON YOUR DASHBOARD
SEARCHMAXXEDClicks, impressions, rankings, AI mentions and recommendations, all trending in one view
TYPICAL AEO AGENCYVanity charts, and an explanation of why the real numbers are flat
WHEN RANKINGS SLIP
SEARCHMAXXEDDiagnosed and fixed that week
TYPICAL AEO AGENCYExplained at next month's call
WHO OWNS THE ASSETS
SEARCHMAXXEDYou. Site, repository, content and data, from day one
TYPICAL AEO AGENCYThe agency, on the agency's stack
COMMITMENT
SEARCHMAXXEDMonthly, 6 months or 12 months, your choice
TYPICAL AEO AGENCYA 12-month lock, then a renewal negotiation
Searchmaxxed
An AI-native search team: the answer in Google and AI, and the pipeline that follows.
Typical AEO agency
Retainers priced for people, not for results.
WHO DOES THE WORK
The people you met on the call, with their AI agents behind them
An account manager relaying your questions to a junior
WHAT YOU GET
More of the buying searches and AI answers that bring you pipeline
A report, a check-in call and a few blog posts
SPEED
Problems caught and fixed fast, with your live data deciding the next move
A quarterly audit and a monthly summary
AI SEARCH
A fixed set of buyer questions tracked in ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and AI Overviews every month
Not covered, or sold to you later as an add-on
THE WEBSITE
Built and engineered for search from the first commit
Your existing site, worked around
WHERE CLAIMS ARE VERIFIED
Your own Search Console and GA4, and the live SERP itself
Screenshots from a dashboard you cannot open
WHAT MOVES ON YOUR DASHBOARD
Clicks, impressions, rankings, AI mentions and recommendations, all trending in one view
Vanity charts, and an explanation of why the real numbers are flat
WHEN RANKINGS SLIP
Diagnosed and fixed that week
Explained at next month's call
WHO OWNS THE ASSETS
You. Site, repository, content and data, from day one
The agency, on the agency's stack
COMMITMENT
Monthly, 6 months or 12 months, your choice
A 12-month lock, then a renewal negotiation
FIT
Who we take on.
GOOD FIT
Serious buyers, serious category
- ✓You sell to buyers who research in Google and AI answers before they talk to sales
- ✓You want one team owning search end to end, judged on pipeline
- ✓You can give us access to your site, and a quick answer when we need one
- ✓You think in years, and want an asset that compounds instead of an expense that repeats
POOR FIT
Looking for a shortcut
- ✕You need rankings by Friday. Nobody honest promises those
- ✕You want strategy advice with no changes to your site
- ✕You want to direct the deliverables list line by line each month
- ✕You want reports about the work more than you want the work
FAQ
AEO agency questions
What is answer engine optimisation?
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Answer engine optimisation (AEO) is the work that gets your answers quoted in AI tools such as ChatGPT and Google's AI answers. It means pages that answer one question near the top, accurate schema and the same facts about you across the web.
How much does AEO cost?
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It depends on your site, markets and goals, so we scope each program and quote it in writing. Start with a free growth plan.
Is AEO different from SEO?
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AEO builds on SEO. Google says the same SEO basics apply to its AI features, and Google only cites pages it has indexed. AEO adds answer-first page structure, entity facts and the outside sources AI tools quote.
Which AI engines does AEO cover?
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ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode. Each draws on different sources, so we check each one with the same buyer questions every month.
What does an AEO agency do?
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An AEO agency works to make ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google's AI features name your company when buyers ask. It builds direct answers, structured facts, a consistent entity record and outside sources, then tracks the results. We do this as part of our SEO and AI SEO service, checking the answers each month and building the fixes on your website.
What does AEO stand for in marketing?
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AEO stands for answer engine optimisation. It covers the work that helps ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google's AI Overviews trust and name a company. American pages spell it optimization, and the work is the same. At Searchmaxxed, AEO sits inside every managed plan beside SEO and GEO.
Which AEO agencies are considered the best?
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Brenden's shortlist of AEO agencies in Australia compares each agency's team, proof, prices and AI answer measurement. We put Searchmaxxed first and say so. Judge any AEO agency by its readings. Each reading should show the prompt, the engine, who got named, which source got cited and the date.
What is AEO, and how do you implement it?
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AEO is answer engine optimisation: the work that gets ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google's AI answers to name your company. You implement it in four steps. Publish your services, locations, prices where you show them, and proof as plain facts on your own pages. Mark them up with structured data that matches the visible text. Build reviews, citations and mentions on other sites that agree with those facts. Then ask your buyers' questions and log who gets named.
Is AEO worth it?
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AEO is worth it when your buyers ask AI tools before they call anyone, and when you measure what it brings in. Google says clicks from results pages with AI Overviews are higher quality, with visitors more likely to spend time on the site. That only matters if the clicks turn into enquiries. So we track each platform's answers and the enquiries that follow, and you see the payback.
What are some of the best AEO agencies in the USA?
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One published US shortlist names Optimist, Discovered Labs, iPullRank and First Page Sage as leading AEO agencies for 2026. Optimist wrote that list and placed itself first, which it says openly. Judge any agency on its results, its measurement and what you own at the end. We ask to be judged the same way.
Does a company need AEO as well as SEO?
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Yes, and they share one foundation. Google says its AI features follow the same SEO basics as the rest of Search, with no extra technical requirements. AEO adds the answer-first pages, fact record and outside sources that decide which business an answer names. We run both as one service, and our SEO service page covers the ranking side.
How does Searchmaxxed measure AEO, and which AI platforms does it track?
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We measure the answers on each platform and the enquiries that follow. We rerun a fixed panel of buying questions in ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews. Each platform gets its own record, because the links differ even between Google's own AI features. Search Console includes AI Overviews and AI Mode traffic in its Web search data. We join that with GA4 landing pages and your enquiry records. Your package sets the platforms, and Agentic Search Engineering tracks all four.
Can Searchmaxxed promise that ChatGPT will recommend us?
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No. No agency controls what an AI model says, so no agency can promise a mention. We commit to the work: new pages, checked facts, new outside sources and clear measurement. Then we show you what moved and what didn't.
What happens in the first 30 days with Searchmaxxed?
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First you see where you stand, then the work starts. We begin with a free growth plan, where we benchmark you against your top competitors and show you where they're named instead of you. For the full picture, the paid AI SEO Audit takes five business days and ranks every fix by value. Then we connect Search Console and GA4, set up the answer-tracking panel and build the first new pages from a 90-day plan.
What's the difference between AEO and GEO?
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AEO aims to make your company the direct answer to a specific buying question in ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity or Google's AI features. GEO, generative engine optimisation, works on the pages, facts and outside sources those engines draw from when they write an answer. The two overlap, so Searchmaxxed runs both inside the same managed plans. Our GEO service page covers that side.
SOURCES
- Google Search Central, AI features and your website
- OpenAI, OpenAI Crawlers
- Optimist, The Best AEO Agencies for Growing AI Visibility & Revenue (2026)
Written and reviewed by Brenden House at Searchmaxxed. Last reviewed 28 September 2026.
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