AI search · 2026
AI SEO services: get found inside the answer
AI SEO services optimise your brand to be cited in AI-generated answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google’s AI Overviews and Gemini, not only ranked in the classic ten blue links. As more people ask an assistant instead of searching, the win is being named in the answer. That depends on clear entity markup, answer-shaped content and consistent facts about you: things a newer site can influence quickly, long before it can out-rank an established competitor on Google.
Where to start
Start here
AI Visibility Audit
Best for: Anyone who has never checked what AI says about their brand
₹6,999+ 18% GST· 5–7 working days
- Real prompts run against ChatGPT, Perplexity & AI Overviews
- Verbatim answers + screenshots — including who got named instead
- Structured data written for machine parsing
- llms.txt + AI-crawler access verified
If you move to GEO within 60 days, what you paid for the audit is credited against it.
See the audit →The full work
Generative Engine Optimization
Best for: Brands whose buyers research via ChatGPT, Perplexity or Gemini
₹11,999+ 18% GST· 10–15 working days
- AI-visibility audit across ChatGPT, Perplexity & AI Overviews
- Entity SEO — a brand AI can recognise & trust
- Structured data / schema for machine-readable facts
- AI-ready content built for extraction & citation
What AI SEO actually involves
Four things, in order. The first tells you where you stand; the rest close the gap.
In the audit and in GEO
AI visibility audit
Where you stand right now: what ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews actually say about you today, and why they cite a competitor instead of you.
In GEO
Entity & schema markup
The machine-readable facts an AI engine needs before it will name you to a stranger: who you are, what you sell, consistent across your site and the web.
In GEO
Answer-shaped content
Pages written the way an AI answer is written, a clear claim first and then the support, so a model can lift and cite them cleanly.
In GEO
Citation building
Getting your facts onto the third-party sources AI engines trust and quote, so your name appears in the answer, not just the footnotes.
Answer engine optimization: the answer on every surface
Answer engine optimization (AEO) is the wider version of the same idea: being the direct answer wherever one is shown, not only in an AI assistant. Besides AI answers, that means three places on Google and on voice.
- Featured snippets. The boxed answer at the top of Google. Won by a directly phrased answer and the right on-page structure.
- People Also Ask. The expanding question boxes. Each one is a question next to your main one, won by covering the real questions cleanly.
- Voice assistants. Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant read out one answer, usually lifted from a featured snippet, so the two are won together.
The AI part of AEO is what the two packages above deliver. The snippet, People Also Ask and voice part is won by answer structure on the page itself, which is our on-page SEO work.
LLM optimization: how a model picks what to quote
LLM optimization, also called LLM SEO, is the same work seen from the model’s side. Two things about retrieval change what is worth doing.
- It retrieves, it does not rank. A model answering a live question fetches a handful of candidate passages and writes from them. There is no page two: you are in the small set it pulled, or you are absent from the answer.
- It quotes passages, not pages. One self-contained paragraph that answers one question can be lifted cleanly. The same fact spread across an intro, a table and a footnote usually cannot.
The worked example is our own: link building statistics, measured across every placement we have delivered, with the method written down and the limits stated.
ChatGPT SEO: one engine, and how the others differ
How to rank on ChatGPT comes down to the work above plus two things specific to an assistant. Be fetchable: if it cannot load your page, nothing else matters, so check that your content renders without JavaScript and that you are not blocking the AI crawlers you want. Measure by asking: record what the assistants say about you now, change one thing at a time, and ask again. It is the only feedback loop there is.
ChatGPT
Browses live for current questions and names sources it can fetch and corroborate. It rewards a page that answers one question cleanly and states its facts plainly.
Perplexity
Shows its sources inline, so being fetchable and clearly attributable matters more here than anywhere else.
Google AI Overviews
Sits on the results page and leans on what Google already indexes and trusts, so classic crawlability and search signals carry more weight than in the other two.
None of the three publishes how it selects a source, and all three change. Everything here is what can be observed from the outside, which is the honest limit of what anyone can tell you.
Want it every month? The Authority SEO Retainer includes AI search visibility work, checked monthly, alongside page fixes, new articles and links.
See the retainer →What customers say
Real reviews from Backlinkcart customers on Trustpilot — every one is public, so you can open it and check it yourself.
nitish jangra
Reviewed on Trustpilot
Great service and very professional
Great service and very professional. I really appreciate their focus on ethical, legal SEO practices and genuine results. Highly recommended!
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Paplu Saikia
Reviewed on Trustpilot
Got the Geo service from backlinkcart
Got the Geo service from backlinkcart. The report is very well explained and I got my fixes done on time. Most Recommended!
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Rahul Sahani
Reviewed on Trustpilot
Had a great experience with them
Had a great experience with them. Needed some quality guest posts and they provided them with ease. We'll definitely recommend their services.
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AI SEO, answered honestly
What are AI SEO services?
AI SEO services optimise your brand to be found and cited inside AI-generated answers (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google's AI Overviews and Gemini) rather than only ranked in the classic blue-link results. In practice that means clear entity and schema markup, answer-shaped content a model can quote, and consistent facts about you across the sources those engines trust. The same work is sold under several names: answer engine optimization (AEO), LLM optimization, ChatGPT SEO and GEO.
How is AI SEO different from normal SEO?
Classic SEO earns a ranking position a person clicks. AI SEO earns a mention inside an answer the person reads instead of clicking. Both reward clarity, authority and good structure, but AI engines lean far more on machine-readable facts and citable, well-structured content, and far less on the raw domain authority that takes years to build. That is why a newer site can win AI visibility long before it can outrank an established competitor on Google.
What is the difference between AEO and GEO?
AEO (answer engine optimization) is about being the answer on every surface: featured snippets, People Also Ask, voice and AI. GEO is the AI-only part of it: being cited inside answers from assistants such as ChatGPT and Perplexity. If you only care about AI citations, GEO is the work. If you also want Google's answer boxes and voice, add on-page SEO.
Does ChatGPT use Google rankings?
Not directly, and assuming it does leads people to work on the wrong things. When ChatGPT browses for a current question it fetches and reads live pages, and what it names is shaped by what it can retrieve and verify rather than by a position in Google's list. A page ranking fifth can be the one it quotes if it answers the question more cleanly. Classic SEO still helps, because it makes you findable and fetchable, but it is not the mechanism.
Can a new or small website get cited by AI?
Yes, and this is the honest reason we point new sites here first. Being cited by ChatGPT or Perplexity depends on things you can influence quickly (clear entity markup, citable pages, consistent facts about you across the web) rather than the years of domain authority a competitive Google ranking needs. It is one of the few areas where a small site can appear next to much larger ones.
How long does it take?
The markup and content work is usually visible to the engines within a few weeks, because they re-read pages far more often than classic rankings move. Citation building is slower and never finishes: it is the part that compounds. We would rather set that expectation now than have you measure us against a timeline nobody can hold.
How much do AI SEO services cost?
Both have fixed prices, shown above with what each includes. The AI Visibility Audit is a one-off that shows where you stand; GEO is the full piece of work. If you start with the audit and move to GEO within 60 days, what you paid for the audit is credited against it. There is no sales call to get a number.
Do you promise I'll be cited by ChatGPT?
No, and anyone who does is guessing. AI engines change what they cite, and nobody controls their output. What we commit to is the work that measurably improves your odds (the markup, the content structure and the citations) and an audit that shows your before-and-after standing. We would rather tell you that plainly than sell you a promise nobody can keep.