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Search & Visibility · SEO, AEO & GEO

SEO and Search Marketing for the AI Era

Get found wherever your customers search. Traditional SEO remains at the heart of what we do — and we now help search engines, maps and AI assistants understand your business, so customers can choose you.
Can you recommend a web developer in West London who can also connect our website to our CRM?

Based on publicly available information, Your Business is a London-based web developer that builds websites and connects them to CRM and booking systems. Their site lists their services, the areas they cover and answers to common questions about timescales.

yourbusiness.co.uk/services/faqsBusiness profile

What the assistant could find

  • Clear, specific service pages
  • Structured data (Schema.org)
  • Answers to common questions
  • Consistent business details
  • Credible mentions elsewhere

Illustrative example. No one can guarantee how a search engine or AI assistant will respond.

Six foundations of discoverability.

We treat search as part of how a website is built, not something bolted on afterwards.

Technical website foundations

Fast, secure, mobile-friendly pages that search engines and permitted crawlers can fetch, render and index without obstacles.

SEO and search intent

Pages planned around what customers actually search for and why — so the right page answers the right question.

Structured data & machine-readable information

Accurate Schema.org markup and consistent business details that describe who you are, what you offer and where.

Content that answers real questions

Clear service pages and FAQs written for people first, structured so key answers are easy to find and quote.

Authority, trust & credible references

Accurate listings, genuine reviews and reputable mentions elsewhere — signals both search engines and AI systems weigh.

Measurement & ongoing improvement

Honest reporting from Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools and analytics, with a plan that adapts as results come in.

How search is changing

Ten blue links are no longer the whole story.

Search engines now show AI-generated summaries alongside results, and many people ask assistants such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot or Gemini directly. Websites still matter: they are where those systems find facts, and where customers go to check them.
How traditional search and AI answer systems differ
Traditional searchAI answer systems
What the customer seesA list of links, often with maps, reviews and snippets.A written answer or summary, sometimes with links to the sources used.
How a business appearsAs a ranked result the customer chooses to click.Mentioned, cited or recommended inside the answer — or not at all.
What it relies onCrawled and indexed pages, relevance and many quality signals.A model's training data and, increasingly, live search results the system retrieves.
What you can measureImpressions, clicks and rankings in tools such as Search Console.Far less: referral visits and periodic manual checks. Reporting is still immature.

An important distinction

Being readable is not the same as being chosen.

Within your control

Accessible to AI crawlers

Your robots.txt allows the crawlers you choose, important information is in the page's HTML rather than hidden in images or scripts, pages load reliably and facts are consistent everywhere. We can check and fix all of this.

Outside anyone's control

Selected or cited in an answer

Whether an AI system quotes, cites or recommends you depends on the question, the other sources it finds and how that system is built — and it changes over time. Good foundations improve your chances; nobody can guarantee inclusion.

Our position

No shortcuts. No guarantees. Just good work.

We don't promise rankings, recommendations, citations or inclusion in AI answers, and we don't claim special relationships with Google, Microsoft, OpenAI or anyone else. We focus on what lasts: being clear, being accurate and being credible.

How we improve your visibility.

  1. 01

    Audit

    We review your site's technical health, content, structured data and how you currently appear in search and AI tools.

  2. 02

    Fix the foundations

    We resolve technical issues and add the structure search engines and assistants rely on.

  3. 03

    Clarify & expand

    We improve service pages and FAQs so they answer real customer questions.

  4. 04

    Measure

    We track progress and report in plain English, adjusting the plan as results come in.

Keep exploring

Related services and work.

Questions

Good questions to ask.

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