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AEO & GEO services that get your brand cited by AI

Your buyers are asking ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews before they ever open a page of search results. Answer engine and generative engine optimisation make sure the answer they get names you. We ran this playbook on our own site before we sold it to anyone.

FreeAI visibility audit
AEO + GEOAnswer & generative engines
Schema-firstImplemented in code
15+Years in technology
What AEO & GEO means

Search is turning into an answer engine

SEO gets you ranked in a list. AEO gets you into the direct answer above it — snippets, voice, AI Overviews. GEO gets you cited inside the answers ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity write from scratch. LLMO and AIO are other names for that same GEO work, not separate disciplines. The shift matters because an answer names one or two brands instead of showing ten links, so the gap between being cited and being invisible is far wider than the gap between position three and position four.

  • Structured data a machine can parse without guessing
  • One consistent brand entity across the whole web
  • Answer-first content mapped to the questions buyers actually ask
  • Expertise attributable to named, credentialed humans
  • A site AI agents are actually allowed and able to read
Audit
Where you appear today across AI answers and classic search
Structure
Schema, entity and architecture a machine can read
Answer
Content built around the questions buyers really ask
Earn
Citations and mentions that make you quotable
Measure
Track brand mentions in AI answers, not just rankings
What's included

The full AEO & GEO engagement

Eight workstreams. Most clients start with the audit and the technical foundation, then move to content and citations.

AI visibility audit

Where you show up today across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and Google AI Overviews — and which competitors get named instead of you.

Entity optimisation

One unambiguous brand entity: consistent name, details and verified profiles, linked with sameAs so engines know exactly who you are.

Structured data & schema

Organization, Service, FAQPage, Article, Person and Product markup implemented in code, validated, and deduplicated so nothing conflicts.

Answer-first content

Pages built around real buyer questions, written as self-contained passages a model can quote without needing the rest of the page.

Author & E-E-A-T

Named authors with real credentials, visible bios and Person schema, so your expertise is attributable to a human rather than a logo.

AI crawlability

robots.txt and llms.txt rules, render checks and server-side content, so AI agents are permitted to read your site and actually can.

Citation building

Profiles, directories, review platforms and third-party mentions on the sources models already draw on when forming an answer.

AI mention tracking

Ongoing monitoring of where and how your brand is named across AI engines, reported alongside classic rankings and traffic.

Proof

We ran it on our own site first

Before offering AEO and GEO as a service, we rebuilt drcinfotech.com's machine-readable layer end to end. Everything on the right is work we did on ourselves — you can view the source and check it.

We publish the method rather than inflated numbers. AI citation tracking is a young discipline and the honest position is that no agency controls what a model says. What we can show you is exactly what we changed, and why each change makes a brand easier for an engine to name.

Deduplicated the schema graph
Conflicting Organization and FAQ nodes merged to one clean entity
Verified profiles linked
sameAs expanded to eight corroborating sources
Fixed discovery
A 404ing XML sitemap and a malformed robots.txt repaired
AI crawlers allowed
GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and Google-Extended explicitly permitted
FAQ markup across service pages
Question and answer pairs exposed as structured data
Real authors, not an admin byline
Named founders with bios and Person schema on every article
Why DRC Digital

Why this needs engineers, not just writers

We tested it on ourselves

Every technique we sell was implemented on drcinfotech.com first. You can read the source and verify the work before you hire us.

Implementation, not recommendations

Most agencies hand you a schema spreadsheet and wait for your developers. We are the developers — the markup gets shipped.

Both engines, never one

Classic SEO is the foundation AI answers are built on. We strengthen rankings and citations together instead of trading one for the other.

Honest measurement

We report what is genuinely trackable and say plainly what is not. No agency can guarantee a model's output, and we will not pretend otherwise.

15+Years in technology
350+Projects delivered
8AEO/GEO workstreams
4.9Avg. client rating
About the service

AEO & GEO services from DRC Digital

DRC Digital is the growth practice of DRC Infotech LLP, a software development company operating since 2009. Our answer engine optimisation and generative engine optimisation services help B2B and technology businesses become the brand an AI assistant names when a buyer asks for a recommendation. The work spans an AI visibility audit, brand entity and structured data implementation, answer-first content architecture, author and E-E-A-T groundwork, AI crawler access, citation building and ongoing AI mention tracking.

What separates this from a conventional SEO retainer is that the majority of it is engineering. Schema graphs conflict, JavaScript-rendered content is invisible to many AI crawlers, entity details drift across directories, and robots rules silently block the agents you want reading your site. Those are code and infrastructure problems, and our team fixes them directly rather than filing a ticket with yours. We serve clients across India, the US, the UK, Europe and Australia, and every engagement starts with a free AI visibility audit so you can see exactly where you stand before committing to anything.

Find out if AI is recommending you

We'll test your real buying questions across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and AI Overviews, then show you what's blocking you from being cited.

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01What is AEO and how is it different from SEO?
SEO gets your page ranked in a list of blue links. AEO — answer engine optimisation — gets your content into the direct answer above that list: featured snippets, voice results and Google AI Overviews. The work focuses on answering a specific question clearly and completely in a self-contained passage a machine can lift, backed by structured data.
02What is GEO, and is LLMO the same thing?
GEO — generative engine optimisation — is the practice of getting your brand named and cited inside answers written by ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and Copilot. LLMO (LLM optimisation) and AIO (AI optimisation) are alternative names for the same work, not separate disciplines. The market simply hasn't settled on one term yet.
03Does traditional SEO still matter?
Yes — it's the foundation. AI answer engines retrieve from the open web, so pages that are crawlable, authoritative and well structured for classic search are the same pages that get cited in generated answers. AEO and GEO extend SEO rather than replace it, which is why we never drop the classic work to chase the new.
04How do you get a brand cited by ChatGPT or Perplexity?
There's no submission form. Models cite sources that are unambiguous, consistent and corroborated. In practice: one clean brand entity with consistent details across the web, valid structured data, content that answers real questions in quotable passages, expertise attributable to named humans, third-party mentions on sources the models already trust, and a site AI crawlers are allowed to read.
05Can you guarantee we'll appear in AI answers?
No — and you should be sceptical of any agency that guarantees it. AI answers are generated per query and vary between engines, users and sessions, and no vendor controls what a model outputs. What we can do is remove every technical reason you're not eligible to be cited, make your expertise machine-readable, and track your brand's mentions over time.
06How do you measure AEO and GEO results?
We track brand mentions and citations across the major AI engines for a defined set of buying questions, alongside classic metrics: rankings, impressions, AI Overview appearances and referral traffic from AI sources. The discipline is young, so we report what's genuinely measurable and say plainly what isn't.
07How long does it take to show results?
Technical fixes — schema, entity consistency, crawler access — are implemented in the first few weeks and take effect as engines recrawl. Citation and authority building compounds over three to six months. Because the technical groundwork also benefits classic SEO, you usually see search improvements before AI citation changes.
08What's included in the free AI visibility audit?
We test a set of your real buying questions across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews to see whether you or your competitors get named, then review your structured data, brand entity consistency, crawler access and content structure. You get a prioritised list of what's blocking you from being cited — no obligation.