AEO Services
AEO Services for Tri-Cities Businesses
When your customer asks ChatGPT, Google AI, or Perplexity for “the best [your service] near Coquitlam,” your business needs to be in the answer. Velrixa makes that happen.
- AEO for Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam & Port Moody
- Technical SEO & Core Web Vitals
- AEO-first content built to rank in AI search
What Is Answer Engine Optimization?
Modern SEO
Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is the practice of optimizing a business’s online presence so that AI-powered answer engines — including ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini — cite that business by name when responding to user questions. AEO complements traditional SEO but focuses on AI citation instead of page rankings.
Where SEO is about ranking in a list of ten blue links, AEO is about being one of three businesses an AI engine recommends. The tactics overlap — schema markup, authoritative content, clean site architecture — but the optimization targets, measurement tools, and content structures differ significantly.
Services
Why AEO Is the Most Important Thing Your Agency Isn’t Doing
If your ideal customer is using ChatGPT or asking Google a question in natural language — and they are — they’re getting their answer from an AI before they see a single search result. The winners in the AI search era aren’t the businesses with the best SEO. They’re the businesses that got cited.
800M+
ChatGPT weekly active users
50%+
Google searches that now trigger an AI Overview
60%
AI Overview searches that end without a click to any website
3
Businesses typically cited in an AI answer
Our AEO Process
Phase 1 — Audit (Week 1)
Free technical SEO audit, keyword gap analysis versus Tri-Cities competitors, Google Business Profile review, and 45-minute strategy call.
Phase 2 — Strategy (Weeks 2–3)
90-day SEO roadmap, keyword and content strategy, technical priority list, local citation audit, and link-building plan.
Phase 3 — Build (Weeks 4–10)
Expansion into adjacent keyword clusters, new service-area pages (Burnaby, Vancouver, New Westminster), content repurposing for AEO, and authority-building campaigns.
Phase 4 — Track & Iterate (Ongoing)
We live in the Tri-Cities. We know which BC directories carry weight, which Facebook groups drive referrals, and which "near me" keywords actually convert versus vanity terms.
What’s Included
What RankFly AEO Services Include
AI Visibility Audit
We query ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini with your top commercial-intent prompts, then document where your business shows up, where it doesn’t, and where competitors are winning.
Entity & Knowledge Graph Optimization
AI engines cite entities they understand. We structure your business as a recognized entity across the open web — Wikidata, industry directories, structured author bios, consistent NAP — so AI tools have a confident reference to cite.
AEO Content Architecture
We rewrite or create pillar pages and FAQs formatted for AI extraction: question-led headings, direct-answer leads, explicit entity definitions, and citation-worthy data points. Content that reads like a reference, not a brochure.
Schema & Structured Data
Full deployment of the schema types AI engines weight most heavily — Organization, LocalBusiness, Service, FAQPage, HowTo, Article, Person — and ongoing validation as the schema.org vocabulary evolves.
AI Citation Tracking
Monthly reports showing where you’re being cited across the major AI engines, which queries you’re winning, which competitors are beating you to the answer, and what’s changing month over month.
Quarterly Strategy Reviews
AI search is changing monthly. We meet quarterly to review citation trends, new AI platforms, Google’s latest AI Overview changes, and adjust your roadmap accordingly.
FAQ
AEO Services FAQs
SEO optimizes web pages to rank in search engine results lists. AEO optimizes content and entities to be cited by AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini. SEO targets clicks. AEO targets citations. Most businesses now need both.
Yes. Traditional SEO is the foundation AEO builds on. AI engines frequently pull from top-ranking organic content when composing answers. A site that ranks well organically has a significant AEO advantage — which is why our AEO retainers always include technical SEO work.
RankFly AEO engagements start at a defined monthly retainer based on scope. After your free audit, we give you a fixed-scope proposal with three tiers — starter, growth, and enterprise — and you pick the one that matches your goals and budget.
No legitimate AEO agency can guarantee AI citations. AI engines use proprietary ranking logic that changes without notice. What we can guarantee is the measurable inputs — schema deployment, content quality, entity consistency, technical foundations — that correlate with citation outcomes.
Find Out Where You Stand in AI Search
Your free AEO visibility audit from RankFly shows you exactly where your business is — and isn’t — being cited across ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, and more. No commitment. No sales pressure. Just the data.
