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Answer engine optimization · GFD ONE module

AEO services that get you named when buyers ask AI

Answer engine optimization (AEO) is the work of getting your brand named and cited inside the answers ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google’s AI Overviews give your buyers. We track 100 of the prompts they ask, see which brands and pages the engines pick, and fix what keeps you out. A fix pack ships every other month.

AEO is a module inside a GFD ONE plan, sized to your stage and scope on a 20-minute teardown, with your scoreboard in hand.

See AEO plans and pricingOpens GFD ONE, where you can see the plans and start. Every engagement is led by a principal from the Green Flag Digital team.

Teams we have worked with

Answer engine optimization: every service

What’s included

  • 100 buyer prompts tracked across the major AI engines, with your share next to your competitors’
  • A fix pack every other month: pages, structure and the proof engines look for
  • Entity schema for the brand and its leaders, kept current
  • An outlet map of the publications the engines cite for your prompts

How we work

  1. Pick the prompts. At kickoff we agree 100 buyer prompts: the questions people ask before they buy.
  2. Measure. Each prompt runs on the engines on a schedule. We report a share with its sample size and dates, never a single screenshot.
  3. Fix. Each fix pack targets the pages and claims the engines skip, and the sources they trust instead.
  4. Earn mentions. AI engines repeat what independent sources say about you. That part is digital PR, and it pairs with this module.

What we won’t sell you

Some AEO advice is noise. We don’t sell llms.txt files, special "AI schema" or chopping pages into chunks as ranking levers, because the evidence for them is thin. Google’s own guidance says its AI features run on the same foundations as search, with no special markup required. We spend your budget on pages engines can retrieve, content worth quoting and mentions from sources they trust.

Proof from client work

Cited

as the ranking source in a ChatGPT answer to "best interstate moving companies"The answer said the movers are "ranked highly by moveBuddha". A single saved answer, Ahrefs Brand Radar, Oct 21, 2026.

10,606

URLs crawled for moveBuddha’s AI visibility baselineWith a 38-prompt panel, a Brand Radar baseline and a 15-fix pack, ranked.

Client results

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Questions buyers ask

What are AEO services?

AEO services are the work an agency does to get your brand named and cited in AI answers: tracking the prompts buyers ask, fixing the pages and facts the engines skip, keeping entity schema current, and earning mentions on the sources the engines trust. Ours run monthly as a module in a GFD ONE plan.

What is AEO?

AEO, answer engine optimization, is the practice of getting a brand named and cited in AI-generated answers from tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google’s AI Overviews. It covers the pages the engines read, the facts they repeat and the third-party sources they trust.

How is AEO different from SEO?

SEO earns rankings and clicks in Google. AEO earns mentions and citations inside AI answers. They share foundations, and digital PR feeds both.

How do you measure AI visibility?

We run an agreed panel of buyer prompts on each engine on a schedule and record who gets named and cited. We report your share with the number of answers and the dates, because one run of an AI answer proves very little.

How long does AEO take to show results?

Tracking starts on day one and fix packs ship every other month. Earned mentions take longer to show up in answers. We agree the panel at kickoff, with a held-back set of questions we don’t work on. If by month 3 the questions we work on show a gain against the held-back set that tops out under 2 points, either side can walk away.

Is AEO legit, or is it SEO with a new name?

Both, in part. Most of what gets a page cited in AI answers is good SEO: pages the engines can reach and content worth quoting. What is new is the measurement (share of answers, not rank) and the weight on third-party mentions. Be wary of anyone selling special files or markup as the fix.

Can you guarantee ChatGPT will recommend us?

No one can. We commit to the fixes we ship, and we show you which prompts they moved.

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See AEO plans and pricingOpens GFD ONE, where you can see the plans and start. Every engagement is led by a principal from the Green Flag Digital team.

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