SEO and AEO: get found on Google and in AI answers
Buyers now ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude who to hire before they search Google. Chief Nest makes your business easy for both to find, understand and recommend, starting from a measured baseline and reporting honestly every month.
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What is AEO?
AEO, answer engine optimization, is making your business easy for AI assistants to understand and recommend when a buyer asks them a question. It builds on SEO: assistants use many of the same signals as Google, plus a consistent identity across the web and pages that answer questions directly.
What do you fix first?
- The baseline. Where you stand in Google Search Console and in assistant answers today, recorded before anything changes.
- Technical basics. The right Search Console property, a submitted sitemap, titles, crawl problems and pages that should not be indexed.
- One clear identity. Your name, address, phone, website and description made consistent on your site, Google Business Profile, LinkedIn and the directories assistants read.
- Accuracy. Claims on your site that you cannot stand behind, removed before anyone repeats them.
How do you measure AI visibility?
We run the same set of buyer questions across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude, record whether you are named and which sources they cite, and repeat it to compare against the baseline.
What do you promise, and what not?
We promise the work, the measurement and an honest report every month. No one can guarantee that an AI assistant will name your business, and anyone who does is guessing. We change one thing at a time so we can show what moved and why.
How long until we see movement?
The first month is measurement and fixes. We read direction over the following months, because AI answers change from run to run.
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Frequently asked questions
It builds on it. Everything that helps Google helps assistants, and AEO adds a consistent identity across the web and pages that answer buyer questions directly.
Yes. We correct your Google Business Profile and the directory and review listings that assistants rely on.
Yes. We write answer-first pages and articles built around the questions your buyers ask.
Find out what assistants say about you
Book a 30-minute intro. We will ask an assistant about your business on the call.