Answer Engine Optimization · AI Search
Get Your Business Cited in AI Search Answers
I optimize your website so AI assistants can reach it, extract clean answers from it, and choose it as a source — then I track whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini actually mention you.
AI answers come from two routes. Training data is what the model learned about your brand from the web it was trained on — you influence that slowly, by being widely and consistently mentioned across the internet. Live retrieval, often called RAG, is the faster route: when ChatGPT Search, Perplexity, or Claude with web search answers a question, it runs a search, fetches a few pages, pulls out passages, and cites them. You win there quickly if your pages are crawlable, rank reasonably, and contain clean, quotable answers.
AEO does not replace SEO — it builds on it. Pages that rank well in traditional search are far more likely to be retrieved by AI tools, so a strong SEO foundation stays the base. On top of that, I add extractable structure, structured data, entity consistency, and off-site brand presence, then measure the result against a fixed set of customer prompts.
What I do to get you cited
Five layers of work, in priority order — so you fix what blocks AI systems before spending on content and brand reach.
Technical accessibility
Can AI reach you? I audit robots.txt, CDN and firewall rules, and unblock the crawlers that matter: GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, Claude-User, PerplexityBot, and Google-Extended. I also verify your key content exists in the raw HTML, since many AI crawlers do not run JavaScript well.
Crawlability & indexing
Fast pages, clean URLs, and full XML sitemap coverage. I submit you to Google and Bing Webmaster Tools, because several AI search tools rely on Bing, and set up IndexNow for faster discovery. Where useful, I add an llms.txt file — low cost, low priority, since provider adoption is still uncertain.
Answer-first content structure
LLMs pull passages, not whole pages. I restructure your priority pages into self-contained chunks: a direct one or two sentence answer first, then detail. Question-style headings that match how people actually ask, plus definitions, short paragraphs, comparison tables, step lists, and FAQs that can be extracted without the rest of the page.
Authority & trust signals
I add the things that make AI systems choose you: original data, statistics, research, and expert quotes where you have them; clear authorship with credentials, an About page, contact details, and visible dates; and a refresh cadence so time-sensitive pages stay current — retrieval systems favour recently updated pages.
Entity & brand presence
Does AI know who you are? I make your brand name, description, and facts consistent across your site, LinkedIn, Crunchbase, Google Business Profile, and directories — then plan third-party mentions on review sites, industry publications, best-of listicles, Reddit, Quora, and YouTube. LLMs trust what others say about you more than what you say about yourself.
Structured data & measurement
Schema.org markup (Organization, Product, FAQPage, Article, HowTo, Review) so machines can parse who you are and what you offer. Then a fixed prompt list of 20–50 questions your customers actually ask, run regularly across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini, with referral analytics and server-log checks for AI crawler activity.
How I work
A priority order that starts with what unblocks you fastest, then builds authority over time.
Audit
I check crawler access, Google and Bing indexation, content extractability, structured data gaps, and how consistently your brand entity appears across the web.
Foundation
Unblock AI crawlers, fix robots.txt and firewall rules, make sure key content is in the raw HTML, tighten speed and URLs, and submit sitemaps through Bing Webmaster Tools with IndexNow.
Restructure
I rewrite your top 10–20 pages into answer-first, question-led formats with clear definitions, tables, step lists, and FAQs — each section readable on its own.
Authority
Add authorship, credentials, dates, and original citable assets. Plan the third-party mentions and directory listings that shape how models understand your brand.
Measure & iterate
Run your fixed prompt set monthly across the main AI tools, watch referral traffic from chatgpt.com, perplexity.ai, and claude.ai, check logs for AI crawler hits, and improve the pages that are close to being cited.
Tools & Standards
The technical groundwork and measurement stack behind an AEO engagement.
Why work with VeloxByte on AEO
AEO needs both crawl-level engineering and content discipline — most agencies only sell one half.
SEO plus engineering
Unblocking crawlers, fixing client-side rendering, and shipping schema are engineering tasks. Rewriting pages into extractable answers is a content task. You get both from one studio.
Fixes before content
I work in priority order: unblock crawlers and get indexed first, then restructure pages, then invest in original assets and brand mentions. You do not pay for content that AI systems cannot read.
Practice what I sell
This site is built with server-rendered content, clean URLs, schema, and answer-first copy — the same standards I apply to yours.
Measured, not guessed
You get a fixed prompt set, tracked monthly across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini, plus referral and crawler-log reporting — so progress is visible.
Founder-led, one contact
I own the work end to end and tell you honestly when a change is not worth paying for.
Published pricing
A fixed-price foundation project and an optional monthly retainer, both in USD, agreed upfront.
Related
Web development
When the fix is a faster, server-rendered rebuild rather than an optimization pass.
Custom software
Portals, workflows, and integrations when you need more than a website.
Selected work
Recent product and platform builds with clear ownership from brief to launch.
Frequently Asked Questions
AEO is the practice of making your website the source AI assistants quote. It covers crawler access, answer-first page structure, structured data, brand entity consistency, and measuring whether tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini mention or cite you.
SEO targets ranked links on a search results page. AEO targets being retrieved and quoted inside an AI answer. AEO builds on SEO: pages that already rank reasonably are much more likely to be fetched, so I strengthen the search foundation first, then add extractable structure and off-site brand presence.
The AEO Foundation project starts from $2,500 and covers the crawler and indexing audit, technical fixes, and restructuring of your top 10–20 pages. An optional AEO Growth retainer starts from $1,200 per month for ongoing content refresh, entity and mention work, and monthly prompt tracking.
Retrieval wins can appear in weeks once crawler access and structure are fixed, because RAG systems re-fetch pages on each query. Training-data influence is slower and depends on consistent third-party mentions over months. I report on both.
ChatGPT Search, Perplexity, Claude with web search, and Gemini, plus the Bing and Google indexes several of them rely on. The technical work also helps any AI system that crawls the web.
Usually not. Most engagements are fixes and rewrites on your existing site. If your content is rendered only on the client and crawlers cannot see it, I will flag that early — sometimes a rendering change or a small rebuild is the honest answer.
Access to your site, hosting or CDN settings, and analytics, plus a list of 20–50 questions your customers ask. If you do not have that list, we build it together in the first session.
Yes. Good rankings make retrieval more likely, but AI systems still need passages they can extract and cite. Ranking pages with clear, self-contained answers get quoted far more often than ranking pages that bury the answer.
Let's Connect
Want AI search to recommend you?
Share your website and 5–10 prompts your customers already ask. I will reply with what is blocking AI systems, a fixed-price range, and a realistic first milestone.
I take on two fixed-price build projects at a time so your product gets real attention. Care retainers use separate capacity.