Get your business recommended by ChatGPT and Google AI
Your buyers now ask an assistant who to call. AI SEO, also called generative engine optimization, makes your business the answer: a California team finds out what ChatGPT, Google AI, Perplexity and Claude say about you today, fixes the reasons they skip you, and shows you the answers before and after.
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What is AI SEO called now?
AI SEO, generative engine optimization (GEO), answer engine optimization (AEO) and AI search optimization are the same service with four labels. You will also see LLM SEO and AIO. All of them mean getting your business named and cited when someone asks an AI assistant instead of scrolling Google. Whatever you were quoted for, this page is what the work actually is, what it costs, and what it cannot promise.
The anatomy of an AI answer
An assistant answering a buyer's question retrieves live pages and its own memory of the web, then names the businesses it can describe with confidence. Five signals decide whether that is you, and each one shows up in the answer.
Illustration of how an answer is assembled, not a client result.
1Who you are
A clear entity
The assistant has to know exactly who you are: one business name, one address, one phone number, the same everywhere it looks. Four companies sharing a similar name, or a profile that disagrees with the website, and it hedges or picks someone else.
2What it quotes
Pages that answer the question asked
Assistants quote passages, not brands. A page that states plainly what you do, where you serve, roughly what it costs and why you are credible gets lifted into the answer. A hero image and three icons give it nothing to quote.
3The facts it trusts
Structured data that agrees with the page
Organization, LocalBusiness, Service and FAQ markup, author credentials, and a machine-readable summary of the site. Not a trick, a confirmation: the markup says the same thing the page says, so the model trusts both.
4What others say
Mentions it can find off your site
Reviews on Google and Yelp, directory listings that match, a chamber page, a case study a client published, a video. Models weigh what other sources say about you far more than what you say about yourself.
5Why it trusts it now
Freshness and a real author
Dated, updated pages with a named person behind them outrank stale anonymous ones in AI answers more sharply than in classic search. Recency is a signal the assistants lean on.
For a local business the same profile, reviews and listings decide both the Google local pack and the assistant's answer, so the work pays twice. AI SEO for Orange County and the Inland Empire →
We run it on ourselves
Ask ChatGPT who builds custom software near Chino Hills.
It names LinkTech first out of ten local businesses and cites four of our own pages as the source. That is the result of the same work in the plan: one clear entity, pages that say plainly what we do, structured data that agrees with them.
- Position in the answer
- #1 of 10
- Our pages cited
- 4
Can you recommend a company that builds custom software near Chino Hills, CA?
“I found several local options, and LinkTech Solutions stands out as a particularly relevant fit if you want a company actually based in Chino Hills.”
“...custom business software, internal tools, dashboards, workflow systems, CRM development, and automations.”
Sources it cited
- linktechsolutions.io/about
- linktechsolutions.io/services/custom-software-development
- linktechsolutions.io
- linktechsolutions.io/insights/best-custom-software-companies-inland-empire
Check the answer yourself
Do not take the screenshot on faith. Ask the same question we asked:
Answers change from day to day. That is why we report monthly.
Our own research
We asked ChatGPT for 20 local business recommendations across Orange County and the Inland Empire and recorded every name and every source it used.
See what decided the picks →How much does AI SEO cost?
Among California agencies that publish their prices, monthly AI SEO retainers start around $1,500 and run past $8,000, and most agencies do not publish a price at all. Ours: a $750 one-time AI visibility audit, credited to your first month, and a monthly plan from $1,500 to $5,000 with no contract. Start with the audit if you want to know where you stand first.
AI visibility audit
$750 one time
A written answer to one question: what do the assistants say when your buyers ask, and why. Delivered in 10 business days. Credited toward your first month if you continue.
- Your business asked for by name and by category across ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude and Copilot, with the answers recorded
- What the assistants get wrong about you: outdated details, wrong services, a competitor's facts attached to your name
- A share-of-answers score: how often you are named, who is named instead, and which sources they cite
- Entity check: name, address, phone and category consistency across your site, Google Business Profile and the major directories
- Page-by-page read of what an assistant can and cannot quote from your site
- Structured data validation and gaps, plus whether your site publishes a machine-readable summary
- Off-site footprint: reviews, listings and mentions the models can reach
- A prioritized fix list you can hand to any developer, or to us
Stripe checkout. You will be asked for your business name, the site to audit, and the questions your buyers ask.
AI visibility plan
$1,500 to $5,000 a month
The audit, then the fixes shipped and the record built, month to month. Priced by how many questions you need to own and how much content is in scope. Cancel any month.
- Everything in the audit, then the fixes shipped in code on your site
- Entity cleanup across your profile and listings, with the duplicates resolved
- Answer-ready pages for the questions your buyers actually ask, written and published monthly
- Structured data across the site, a machine-readable site summary, and author markup
- Review and mention program: the off-site sources assistants read, built up steadily
- Monthly AI visibility report in plain sentences: named or not, by assistant, by question
- Classic SEO included, because the same pages have to rank in Google too
Content only? Our blog writing service publishes four answer-ready posts a month for $500, and it is the cheapest way to start being quoted. The full SEO pricing picture is in our SEO cost guide.
AI visibility tool or AI visibility agency?
An AI visibility tool tells you how often the assistants name you and who they name instead. It does not change the answer. If you have a team that can act on a dashboard, fixing listings, rewriting pages and earning reviews, a tool may be all you need.
Most small businesses do not have that team, which is where an AI visibility agency comes in. Our audit is the one-time version of what a tool measures, plus a fix list written for your business. The plan is the fixes themselves, shipped and reported every month. Many dedicated AI visibility agencies start at several thousand dollars a month and are built for large brands; our pricing is built for small and local businesses.
What happens after you sign, in order
- 1
Weeks 1 to 2
Audit and baseline
We record how every assistant answers your buyers' questions today, fix the entity problems first, and agree the list of questions you should be the answer to.
- 2
Weeks 3 to 6
Make the site quotable
Structured data, the site summary, author pages, and the first answer-ready pages go live. Existing pages get direct answers added where they were vague.
- 3
Weeks 7 to 12
Build the off-site record
Reviews, listings and mentions the models can reach. Content keeps shipping. We re-run the baseline and report what changed, by assistant and by question.
AI SEO for California businesses
LinkTech Solutions is an AI SEO company in Chino Hills, California. Most of our clients are in Orange County, the Inland Empire and Los Angeles, and that matters for AI search: when someone asks an assistant to recommend a business in their city, the answer is built from local sources, mostly map listings like your Google Business Profile, review sites and local directories. The businesses it names are the ones those sources describe clearly and consistently.
So the work for a California business starts local: the same name, address and categories everywhere, reviews on the platforms the assistants read, and pages that answer the questions buyers in your city actually ask. For a company that sells across the state or the country, the weight shifts to answer-ready pages, original data and mentions on the industry sites assistants cite. The process is the same anywhere in the United States, and we work with businesses across the country.
Most of what an assistant trusts about you lives off your site: reviews on Google and Yelp, directories and industry lists, and community sites like Reddit and YouTube. That off-site record is the biggest lever in AI brand visibility, and it is a large part of the monthly plan.
AI SEO for Orange County and the Inland Empire covers the city questions we test and how ChatGPT assembles local answers in those markets.
Recent sites, built to be read by AI assistants from launch
Every site we build ships with structured data, a machine-readable summary and answer-ready pages. Tap one to see what we built.

Singh Law HQ
44 pages indexable pages at launch, up from four on the old site
Read case study →
Divine Gifts Solar
23 pages indexable pages at launch, where the old site had no city coverage at all
Read case study →
Singh and Sons Tax
30 pages indexable pages at launch, up from five on the old site
Read case study →What the monthly report looks like
Most agencies report citation counts. We report the questions. Each month you see, per assistant, whether you were named for each question your buyers ask, whether your site was the cited source, and who was named instead.
- Named and your site cited as the source
- Named, another source cited
- Not named
What we measure
- Share of voice: how often each assistant names you for the questions your buyers ask
- Citations: whether your own pages are the cited source, and which ones
- Accuracy: what the assistants say about you, and what they get wrong
- Sources: the sites the assistants lean on for your category
- Who is named instead of you, question by question
- Calls and leads that arrive from AI referrals
Named in 3 of 20 answers
| Question your buyer asks | ChatGPT | Google AI Mode | Perplexity | Claude |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| best solar installer in Riverside | ||||
| solar company near me that handles permits | ||||
| how much does solar cost in Fontana | ||||
| is a solar broker better than an installer | ||||
| solar installers in the High Desert |
Illustration of the report format, not a client result. Real reports name the sources cited instead of you.
What we will not do, and why it matters
A new category attracts tricks. Several of them work for a week, then get your site flagged or your profile suspended. If a proposal you are holding includes any of these, ask what happens when the model notices.
- Hidden text, invisible keyword blocks, or content stuffed into markup that the visitor never sees
- Fake reviews, paid mentions on spam directories, or bought links
- Guarantees of a specific ChatGPT placement. Nobody controls the model, and anyone promising a position is selling you a screenshot
- An Ask-AI button or a chatbot on your site presented as AI visibility. It is not
What clients say about working with us
Linktech has been instrumental in growing my solar business across all of Southern California. Nezar consistently goes out of his way to help, putting in extra hours to ensure our campaigns succeed and our business keeps growing.
The owner worked with me directly and got my law firm website up and running within weeks, made revisions any time I needed them and even went out of his way to help with non-website related issues.
The communication throughout the process was excellent, and the project was delivered promptly. They executed an outstanding job on my website, including a fully customized reservations page.
Questions people ask before buying AI SEO
What are AI SEO services?
AI SEO services get a business named and cited when people ask AI assistants for recommendations: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Copilot. The work is entity cleanup, pages that state plain answers, structured data that agrees with those pages, and building the reviews and mentions the models read off your site. The same service is sold as GEO (generative engine optimization), AEO (answer engine optimization), or AI search optimization. It is one discipline with several names.
Is AI SEO different from regular SEO?
It is an extension of it, not a replacement. Ranking in Google still depends on relevance, authority and technical health. Being named by an assistant depends more heavily on a clear entity, quotable passages, structured data and off-site mentions, and it rewards freshness and named authors more sharply. We run both in one plan because the same pages have to do both jobs.
How much does AI SEO cost?
Our AI visibility audit is $750, one time, and is credited toward your first month if you continue. The monthly AI visibility plan runs $1,500 to $5,000 depending on how many questions you need to own and how much content is in scope. A content-only path through our blog writing service is $500 a month. Every price is published and there is no long-term contract.
How do you measure AI visibility?
We ask the assistants the questions your buyers ask, by name and by category, and record who gets named and which sources are cited. That gives a share-of-answers baseline per assistant per question. We re-run it monthly and report the change in sentences, not a dashboard you have to interpret.
How long does it take to show up in ChatGPT or Google AI Overviews?
Entity fixes and structured data can change answers within weeks, because the assistants retrieve live pages for many questions. Off-site mentions and reviews compound over months. We baseline in week one and report at week twelve, and we tell you at the start which of your target questions are realistic in that window.
Can you guarantee my business will be recommended by ChatGPT?
No, and nobody honest can. The models are not a ranking you can buy. What we can do is remove every reason an assistant has to skip you, give it pages worth quoting, and build the off-site record it checks. Then we show you the answers before and after.
Do I need this if I already do SEO?
If your SEO provider has not shown you how ChatGPT and Google AI Mode answer your buyers' questions, you are not covered. Ask them. Most classic SEO leaves the entity, the structured data and the off-site mentions untouched, and those are the parts that decide AI answers.
Do AI citations actually send traffic, or only awareness?
Both, and the split depends on the question. A buyer asking for the best installer in a city often clicks the cited site or calls the named business without a click. A buyer asking a research question may never visit. We track referrals from the assistants in analytics alongside the share-of-answers report, so you see calls and visits, not only mentions.
Should I block AI crawlers from my site?
Not if you want to be recommended. Blocking the crawlers that ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google use to read pages removes you from the answers. The exception is content you sell, where you may want to block training crawlers but allow the search crawlers. We set that per crawler in your robots file so you keep the visibility and the control.
Will AI SEO improve my Google rankings too?
Usually, yes. The pages that assistants quote are specific, well structured and backed by a clear entity, which is also what Google ranks. Google has said there are no separate technical requirements to appear in AI Overviews beyond being indexed and useful. The plan includes classic SEO because both results come from the same pages.
What is AI brand visibility?
AI brand visibility is whether AI assistants name your business when buyers ask, describe it accurately, and cite your site as the source. It is measured as share of voice, citations and accuracy across ChatGPT, Google AI, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude and Copilot. Improving it is the same work as AI SEO: a clear entity, quotable pages, and an off-site record of reviews and mentions.
Do I need an AI visibility tool or an agency?
A tool measures; it does not change what the assistants say. If you have people who can fix listings, rewrite pages and earn reviews, a tool may be enough. If you need that work done, hire an agency. Our audit gives you the measurement once plus a fix list, and the plan does the fixes every month.
Is SEO dead now that people use AI?
No. Google still sends most of the search traffic a business gets, and AI assistants lean on the same pages Google ranks when they build an answer. What changed is that ranking alone no longer covers you: the assistants also weigh your reviews, your listings and how clearly your pages state what you do. SEO is the foundation and AI SEO is the layer on top.
Is there an AI tool that can do SEO for me?
Tools can draft content, monitor answers and flag technical problems, and we use them. None of them can fix your Google Business Profile, earn reviews, resolve a name that clashes with another company, or decide which questions your buyers actually ask. That part takes judgment and follow-through, which is what you are hiring an agency for.
Which AI SEO agency is best in California?
The one that can show you its own results. Ask any agency, including us, to show a business it got cited by ChatGPT, which questions it will test for you, what it will actually change, and how it reports month to month. Then run the same prompts yourself. Ours: ask ChatGPT who builds custom software near Chino Hills and see who it names first.
Do you offer a free AI visibility check?
No. The AI visibility audit is $750, one time, and it is credited toward your first month if you continue. It covers every major assistant, a share-of-answers score, who is named instead of you and which sources they cite, and a prioritized fix list. If you want to see where you stand for free first, ask ChatGPT and Perplexity the questions your buyers ask and note who gets named.
How do I get my business to show up in ChatGPT?
Make your business easy to describe with confidence. Use the same name, address and categories everywhere; keep your Google Business Profile complete; earn reviews on the sites assistants read; publish pages that answer buyer questions plainly, with prices and service areas in text; add structured data that agrees with those pages; and make sure your robots file does not block AI crawlers. Then check the answers monthly, because they change.
What do I keep if I stop paying?
Everything we shipped. The pages, the structured data, the fixes in your site's code, and the listings and profiles stay in your name and keep working. The plan is month to month with no contract. What stops is the new content, the review and mention program, and the monthly report.
Do you work with businesses outside California?
Yes. The work is remote by nature and most of it is on your site and your listings. We are based in Chino Hills and most clients are in Southern California, which is where our own results come from, but the process is the same anywhere in the United States.
Want the mechanics in depth? How small businesses get mentioned by ChatGPT and AI search →
Measuring it yourself? What AI visibility is and how to measure it →
Local business? What decided ChatGPT's picks in our 20-search study →
Run a law firm? GEO for law firms: how a firm gets named by ChatGPT →
Who does the work
Nezar Humoud, founder and lead engineer of LinkTech Solutions, leads every AI visibility audit and plan. The self-test above and the 20-search ChatGPT study are his work. LinkedIn →
Comparing providers? What AI SEO services include and what they cost →
Tell us the question you want to be the answer to
Send your site and the two or three things your buyers ask an assistant. We reply within one business day with the audit order or a fixed plan price.
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- Honest scoping: if the answers already name you, we say so
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