The GEO and AI SEO agency in South Africa that gets you named by ChatGPT and Google AI.
Buyers now ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google's AI Mode for recommendations before they click a single link. We make sure the answer includes you, and we prove it prompt by prompt.
Shown is a South African GEO and AI SEO agency: we get businesses named and cited in ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and Google AI answers, and prove it prompt by prompt. Generative engine optimisation (GEO), also called answer engine optimisation (AEO), is the work of getting a business named and cited in AI-generated answers. AI engines build answers from pages, listings, reviews and mentions they can find and trust, so GEO combines SEO, entity work, citations and content written to be quoted. Shown tracks answers across five AI engines and reports which prompts name you.
How AI engines decide who to name
We trace AI answers with our own tools. The pattern holds across engines.
Answers start with a web search
Behind most answers, the engine runs its own searches (often several rewrites of your question) and reads what comes back. If you do not rank for those searches, you are rarely in the answer. Our AI answer tracer records them.
Third-party mentions carry the weight
Directories, review sites, comparison lists and publications that mention you count for more than your own claims. We get you onto the sources each engine actually cites.
Direct answers get quoted
Pages that answer the question in a sentence or two, with facts, prices and sources, are the ones engines lift. We rewrite your key pages to be quotable.
Crawlers need plain HTML
Most AI crawlers do not run JavaScript, and some sites block them without knowing (Cloudflare's default settings have done this). We check what each bot actually receives.
What we do, month by month.
- Build a bank of the prompts your buyers ask, such as "best physio in Durban North" or "who installs solar in Centurion".
- Run them across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and Google AI Mode, recording who is named and which sources are cited.
- Get you onto the sources those answers cite: directories, review platforms, lists and relevant publications.
- Make your key pages quotable: direct answers, clear facts, prices and sources.
- Keep the door open: robots.txt, Cloudflare bot settings and server-rendered HTML checked for every AI crawler.
- Re-run every prompt monthly and report what changed.
- ChatGPTNamed in 3 of 4
- GeminiNamed in 3 of 4
- PerplexityCited in 2 of 4
- Google AI ModeNamed in 3 of 4
- CopilotNot yet
Illustrative. Your report lists every prompt, every engine and the sources each answer cited.
SEO, GEO and AEO in one table
| Item | SEO | GEO | AEO |
|---|---|---|---|
| Goal | Rank in Google's results | Be named in AI-generated answers | Be the direct answer to a question |
| Where it shows | Google and Bing results, Maps | ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, AI Mode | AI Overviews, featured answers, voice assistants |
| What it rewards | Relevance, authority, links, experience | Mentions on trusted sources, clear entities, quotable facts | Short, direct, well-structured answers |
| How we measure it | Positions, clicks, calls | Share of prompts that name or cite you | Answers and snippets won |
Questions buyers ask us
Can you get my business into ChatGPT's answers?
Nobody controls what an AI engine says, and anyone promising a fixed placement is guessing. What we control is what the engines find: your rankings for the searches they run, the third-party sources that mention you, and pages worth quoting. Then we measure the result prompt by prompt, so you can see it working.
How do you measure AI visibility?
We keep a bank of buyer prompts for your market and run them on a schedule across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and Google AI Mode. Each answer is scored for whether you are named, cited, or missing, and which competitors and sources appear instead.
Does GEO replace SEO?
No. It sits on top of it. AI engines lean heavily on search results, listings and reviews, so a business that is invisible on Google is usually invisible in AI answers too.
Should we block AI crawlers?
For most businesses, no. Search and answer bots such as OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot and Claude-SearchBot are how AI engines find you. Whether to allow bots that collect training data is a separate choice we will talk through with you.
How long before AI answers change?
Engines that search the live web, such as Perplexity and ChatGPT with search, can reflect changes within weeks of new rankings and mentions. Answers built mostly from a model's training data move more slowly.
Works best together
Every service feeds the others. Links lift pages, listings feed Maps and AI answers, and good pages make every link worth more.
SEO services
Technical fixes, pages built for the exact searches your buyers type, and content that answers them better than anyone else in your market.
Local SEO & Google Maps
Google Business Profile work, reviews and suburb pages that put you in the Maps pack where local buyers pick who to call.
Link building
Automated prospecting, vetting and outreach that earns links from real, relevant sites. No PBNs, no link farms, no blasts.
Directory listings
Your business listed and kept identical across Google, Bing, Apple and 60+ South African and global directories.
Programmatic SEO
Hundreds or thousands of useful pages generated from real data, every one indexable, unique and linked properly.
E-commerce SEO
Category, product and filter pages that rank against the big marketplaces, with the technical base to scale.
SEO consultants
Strategy, audits, migrations and traffic-drop recovery from SEO specialists, for in-house teams or a second opinion.
Free SEO audit
Where you rank, where you are missing from Maps and AI answers, and the three fixes worth doing first.
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Send us your website and the searches you want to win. You get a short audit back: where you rank today, where you are missing from Maps and AI answers, and the three fixes worth doing first.
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