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AI SEO Services.
What are AI SEO services?
AI SEO services optimize your business for both search systems customers use now: Google’s ranked results and the AI answers generated by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and Google AI Overviews. EVOIX is a founder-led AI SEO agency for small businesses. One program covers keyword targeting, structured data, citation-ready content, and monthly tracking of where AI engines mention you.
The problem
You are being judged by two indexes. You are optimizing for one.
Google still ranks pages the way it always has. But your customers increasingly get their answer from an AI assistant, and those assistants pull from their own retrieval indexes. Ahrefs measured the overlap: across 15,000 prompts, Copilot’s cited sources matched Google’s top 10 results just 8.6 percent of the time. Two systems, two verdicts, and most businesses only manage one.
Traditional SEO agencies keep optimizing the blue links. AI visibility vendors sell dashboards for the answer layer. AI SEO is the discipline that treats them as one problem, because they are: AI assistants retrieve most of their sources through search indexes, so ranking work and citation work compound each other when they run as one program.
What’s included
What our AI SEO services cover.
Winnable-keyword mapping
We pull live keyword and difficulty data, then validate every target against the actual results page before a single page gets built. Difficulty scores lie; the live SERP does not.
Two-index tracking
Monthly reporting on both reputations your pages hold: Google rank positions and AI citations recorded across ChatGPT, Copilot, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews.
Citation-ready content
Question-formatted headers with direct answers underneath, source-backed claims, and passage structure AI parsers can lift cleanly into an answer.
Structured data engineering
Per-service Service nodes, FAQPage, LocalBusiness, and Organization schema cross-referenced with @id links, implemented by an engineer rather than a plugin.
Entity alignment
Consistent name, description, and sameAs signals across your site, Google Business Profile, directories, and social profiles, so every engine resolves you to one entity.
Indexing operations
Sitemap hygiene, internal-link architecture from your highest-traffic pages, and re-index requests on every meaningful change, so new work actually enters the indexes.
First-party data
We run AI SEO on our own domain and publish the numbers.
In May 2026 we asked ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity to recommend AEO agencies with live web search on. None named EVOIX, and we published that zero as a research study instead of hiding it. By July 2026, Microsoft Clarity recorded 79 Copilot citations of evoix.io in a single week, 60 of them pointing at a page that sat around position 66 on Google. The same content, two completely different verdicts. That split is what AI SEO manages, and we documented it in the open. The full method behind this page lives in our LLM SEO guide.
Where this fits
AI SEO, AEO, GEO: what you actually need.
The vocabulary is messy; the work is not. Answer engine optimization is the specialized layer that gets you cited inside AI answers. We run it natively as our AEO service, and it is the deepest part of our stack. AI SEO is the umbrella engagement: classic Google rankings plus the AEO layer, planned from one keyword map, shipped by one engineer, reported in one place. If your Google foundation is already strong, start with AEO. If you need both indexes working, this page is the program.
Either way, we scope from evidence: a free audit first, then published pricing. Foundation work from $1,500, fixed-scope builds from $5,000, retainers from $3,000 per month. No opportunity-based quotes.
Frequently asked
AI SEO questions, answered.
What are AI SEO services?
AI SEO services optimize a business for both search indexes that matter now: Google's classic rankings and the AI answers generated by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and Google AI Overviews. The work covers winnable-keyword targeting, structured data, content built for citation, and monthly tracking of where AI engines mention you.
How much do AI SEO services cost?
Published 2026 agency surveys put typical AI SEO retainers between $2,500 and $12,000 per month. EVOIX publishes full pricing instead of quoting by opportunity: one-time foundation work from $1,500, fixed-scope builds from $5,000, and ongoing AI SEO retainers from $3,000 per month, with a free audit before any commitment.
What is the difference between AI SEO and traditional SEO?
Traditional SEO optimizes for one index: Google's ranked results. AI SEO manages two. AI assistants pull citations from their own retrieval indexes, and the overlap is small: Ahrefs measured that Copilot's cited sources matched Google's top 10 only 8.6 percent of the time across 15,000 prompts. A page can rank poorly on Google and still be the source AI assistants cite, or the reverse. AI SEO measures and manages both sides.
Is AI SEO the same as AEO or GEO?
They overlap but are not identical. Answer engine optimization (AEO) and generative engine optimization (GEO) focus specifically on getting cited inside AI-generated answers. AI SEO is the umbrella engagement: traditional Google rankings plus the AEO layer, run as one program, because AI assistants retrieve most of their sources through the same search indexes.
Do I still need traditional SEO if customers ask AI instead?
Yes. AI assistants retrieve their sources through search indexes, so pages that never enter those indexes rarely get cited. Traditional rankings remain the pipe AI answers drink from. The practical change is where optimization effort goes: entity clarity, question-formatted content, and verifiable claims now matter as much as backlinks.
See both of your reputations.
The free AI Readiness Audit scans your business across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude and returns your score in about 30 seconds. No credit card.
Last updated · 2026-08-14