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AI SEO Consulting FAQs
What is AI SEO consulting?
It is hands-on help getting your business visible in AI search: Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Bing Copilot, alongside classic Google rankings. In practice that means auditing how AI systems currently describe you, fixing the entity signals and page structure that models read, building content that earns citations, and setting up measurement so you can see it working. You leave with a specific plan, not a trends talk.
What does an AI search consultant do?
An AI search consultant makes sure AI systems can find, understand, and recommend your business. The work has four parts: entity clarity, so models know who you are and what you sell; technical access, so AI crawlers can actually read your pages; extractable content, meaning direct answers, comparison tables, and FAQ markup that a model can lift and cite; and measurement, so you can see which prompts you appear in and which you do not. It overlaps with traditional SEO but optimizes for being named in an answer rather than for a position in a list.
How much does an AI search consultant cost?
Published 2026 rates for AEO and GEO work spread widely: hourly consulting is quoted anywhere from about $50 for generalists up to $400 to $500 for specialists, and agency retainers are quoted from a few thousand per month into the $25,000 to $50,000 range for enterprise programs. I charge $750 per hour and do not put you on a retainer by default. One working session is usually enough to leave with a prioritized plan your team can execute, and if you want ongoing implementation help after that, we scope it on the call.
How is AI SEO different from traditional SEO?
Traditional SEO optimizes for a ranked list of blue links. AI SEO optimizes for being the answer: cited by name inside AI Overviews and assistant responses. The mechanics overlap, but the priorities change. Extractable answers, comparison tables, FAQ schema, entity clarity, and commercial pages matter more. Chasing top of funnel informational keywords matters less, because AI answers absorb that traffic.
Can you guarantee my business shows up in ChatGPT or AI Overviews?
No, and you should not hire anyone who guarantees placement inside systems they do not control. What I can show you is the exact playbook that earned my own site thousands of AI citations from a standing start, the live citations it produced, and how we apply the same mechanics to your pages with measurement in place so you see what moves.
How much does AI SEO consulting cost?
A consulting session is $750 per hour. We meet on a call, work through your actual site and search presence, and you leave with a prioritized plan you can execute with your own team. If you want ongoing help implementing it, we scope that on the call.
What happens on the consulting call?
We look at your real situation, not hypotheticals. Before the call I review how you currently show up in Google and in AI search. On the call we work through what is costing you visibility, what to fix first, and exactly how to fix it. You get straight answers and a prioritized roadmap, and you keep everything we produce.
Who is this for?
Founders, business owners, marketing leads, and consultants who want their business or their clients visible in AI search. It works whether you have an existing SEO program that needs an AI search upgrade or you are starting from zero, the way my own site did.
Who is AI SEO consulting NOT for?
It is not for anyone looking for an AI easy button. AI made producing content nearly free, which raised the bar for what gets cited rather than lowering it, so prompting a model for fifty articles produces pages nothing picks up. It is also the wrong fit if you need results inside a week, if nobody on your side can ship changes to the site, if you want a guarantee of placement inside ChatGPT that nobody can honestly give, or if the lowest price is your main criterion. What I sell is a working session on your real site, not a shortcut around the work.
Does AI make SEO easier or faster?
It makes production faster and visibility harder to win. AI collapsed the cost of publishing, so the volume of competing content exploded while an AI answer still names only a short list of sources it visibly cites. That flips the math: the advantage moves from whoever publishes the most to whoever is easiest for a model to lift a clean answer from and most credible when it does. AI speeds up research, drafting, and reporting in my own workflow every day. It does not speed up earning the trust that puts you in the answer.
Do you do the implementation too?
The hourly session is strategy and a working plan. If you want the work done with you, we can scope ongoing engagements on the call. Either way you own every workflow, prompt, and system that comes out of it.
Why should I trust you on AI search?
Because the receipts are public. My own site went from zero in February 2026 to 5.77K clicks and 890K impressions in Google Search Console within six months, with 12.1K AI citations tracked in Bing Webmaster Tools over the same period. I run the same playbook for clients, including Blotato, whose founder called me an SEO genius on her live stream. I sell what I already do, not what I read about.