Traditional SEO gets you found in Google. AI GEO gets you cited in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Copilot. Phoenix Growth Collective runs both — in one retainer, from day one.
What is AI GEO?
Search behavior is splitting. Half your customers Google it. The other half ask ChatGPT. If you're only doing traditional SEO, you're invisible to half the room. We fix that.
GEO — Defined
Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is the practice of structuring your website, content, and entity signals so AI answer engines — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot — cite your business in their responses.
When someone asks an AI "Who is the best SEO agency in Miami?" or "What's generative engine optimization?" — GEO determines whether your name shows up in the answer, or your competitor's does.
It's not paid. It's not ads. It's earned authority, at scale, across every AI platform your customers use.
Optimizes your site to rank in Google's blue-link search results. Drives clicks to your site. Still essential — Google handles billions of searches every day.
Optimizes your site to be cited and recommended inside AI-generated answers on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Copilot. Drives brand mentions and direct trust — even when users never click to Google.
We run SEO and GEO simultaneously in one retainer. The content, schema, and entity work that powers GEO also strengthens your Google rankings — every dollar compounds twice.
How It Works
Everything we do is designed to make your business the most trustworthy, findable, and citable source in your category — for both humans and machines.
Speed, Core Web Vitals, crawlability, canonical tags, hreflang, sitemap, and robots.txt — configured correctly for Google and all AI crawler user agents.
Comprehensive JSON-LD implementation: LocalBusiness, Service, FAQPage, BreadcrumbList, WebPage, WebSite, Person — with speakable markup for AI response extraction.
Your business name, location, services, and founders are consistently structured so AI engines build a clear entity graph around your brand — the foundation of citation eligibility.
Weekly long-form blog posts and FAQ content written in Q&A format — the exact style AI engines pull from when generating answers. 52 posts per year, every year.
Explicit robots.txt allow rules for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, Applebot, Meta-ExternalAgent, Bytespider, and CCBot — so every AI index can reach you.
Full GMB optimization, Google Maps, and Apple Maps setup. Local entity signals amplify both traditional local SEO rankings and AI recommendation accuracy for "near me" queries.
AI Engines We Optimize For
AI search isn't one platform — it's six and growing. We optimize across all of them simultaneously so no matter where a potential customer turns, your business is in the answer.
The world's largest AI assistant. Optimized via GPTBot crawl access, structured data, and entity consistency across your web presence.
Cites sources directly in responses. GEO for Perplexity focuses on authoritative content, speakable schema, and structured entity data for inline citations.
Powers Google AI Overviews, the answer boxes at the top of Google search. Schema markup and E-E-A-T signals drive Gemini citation eligibility.
Integrated across Microsoft 365 and Windows. Shares Bing's index — technical SEO and structured data both feed Copilot's knowledge graph.
Built into iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Applebot and Applebot-Extended crawl access, combined with Siri web results optimization, drives Apple AI visibility.
Anthropic's Claude, Meta AI, and future models all pull from Common Crawl and direct web indexes. CCBot access and consistent entity signals build long-term citation probability.
What's Included
Every item below is included in the Phoenix Growth Collective retainer — no à la carte SEO fees, no GEO add-ons, no surprises.
Full site crawl, Core Web Vitals optimization, canonical setup, sitemap, and robots.txt configured for both Google and AI bots.
LocalBusiness, Service, FAQPage, BreadcrumbList, WebPage, WebSite, Person, OfferCatalog, and speakable schema — the full stack.
NAP consistency, sameAs properties, founder profiles, brand disambiguation, and social profile alignment across all AI knowledge graphs.
Weekly Q&A and topical authority content written to rank in Google and be cited by AI engines — published, scheduled, and tracked.
Title tags, meta descriptions, header hierarchy, internal linking, and keyword density — optimized for both search ranking and AI entity recognition.
Full GMB profile optimization, Google Maps listing, Apple Maps setup, review response, and Q&A management.
robots.txt updated with explicit allow rules for all major AI crawlers. llms.txt structured summary file for LLM training and RAG indexing.
Clear reporting on keyword rankings, AI citation tracking, traffic, and conversion metrics — plus a quarterly strategy session with your CMO-level team.
FAQ
The most common questions we get from business owners about how AI search works — and how we optimize for it.
Get your free SEO + GEO audit. A co-founder responds personally — no forms routed to a sales rep, no automated follow-up sequences.