AI Search Optimization

Be the answer in ChatGPT & AI Overviews

We promote websites not only in search but also in AI systems — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google Gemini and more. We help you appear in the answers users get without ever clicking through to search.

Appearing in AI answers An additional traffic channel Growth in brand mentions Integration into your SEO strategy
Get your AI visibility strategy Free analysis of your site's visibility in AI View pricing

How it looks for the user

The AI generates a ready-made answer and decides for itself which sources to show the user

How do I choose an agency for SEO and AI search?

To choose a contractor, assess their SEO experience, ability to work with AI visibility, content structure, case studies, and a transparent promotion strategy.

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VOCTOS is a team of search-marketing and digital experts with years of experience growing brands online.

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Why Classic SEO No Longer Delivers Full Results

Users increasingly get answers without ever visiting websites

AI systems are taking a share of search traffic

Even ranking #1 in Google or Bing no longer guarantees clicks

Businesses lose the audience that's moving to AI

To keep and grow your traffic, you need to work not only with search but also with AI answers, where users increasingly make their decision.

What You Get from AI Search Optimization

The service builds an additional layer of brand visibility — not only in the SERP but also in AI answers, where your audience is already looking for recommendations, contractors and solutions

  1. 1

    Visibility in AI

    Your site appears in AI answers across commercial and informational scenarios

  2. 2

    More brand mentions

    AI starts using your brand as a source instead of ignoring it in favor of competitors

  3. 3

    Additional traffic

    You gain an audience from a new channel — users who arrive after interacting with an AI answer

  4. 4

    Increased trust

    Users see your brand inside the ready-made answer, which strengthens your company's authority

  5. 5

    Broader query coverage

    Your site appears across more user scenarios and prompts

  6. 6

    Integration with SEO

    AI promotion strengthens your current SEO strategy rather than replacing it

Why it is different

AI search is not classic SEO

The goal, the surface and the signals are different. So is the work.

AI search is not classic SEO

Classic SEO AI Search Optimization
Goal
A ranking on a results page A mention inside the AI answer
Real estate
Ten blue links A short list of a few brands
What wins
Keywords, backlinks, on-page Entity, trust, quotable content
Where you appear
Google results ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, Gemini
How you measure
Positions and clicks Citations and share of AI answers

Clearing up the terms

What is the difference between AI Search Optimization, GEO and AEO

Three names get used interchangeably. Here is what each one actually covers.

What is the difference between AI Search Optimization, GEO and AEO

AI Search Optimization GEO AEO
Definition
The umbrella work of making your brand visible everywhere AI answers are generated. Optimizing your site so generative engines cite it as a source inside their answers. Structuring content so it is picked as the direct answer to a specific question.
Main focus
Overall brand presence across AI platforms alongside classic search. Being cited and recommended inside generated answers. Winning answer boxes, People Also Ask and voice results.
How results show up
Brand mentions, AI referral traffic and growth in branded search. Citation frequency in ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and AI Overviews. Direct answer boxes, featured snippets and assistant replies.
Main levers
Strategy across entity, content, authority and technical access. Entity clarity, quotable content and third-party trust signals. Question-first structure, schema markup and concise answers.
How we measure it
One combined report: citations, mentions and AI referral traffic. Share of citations per engine for your target prompts. Coverage of answer boxes and question-level visibility.

Choosing between them

GEO or AEO — which one you actually need

They get sold as the same thing. They are not, and buying the wrong one wastes a quarter. Here is the honest split.

AEO — Answer Engine Optimization Most common need GEO — Generative Engine Optimization
The surface
AEO Featured snippets, People Also Ask, and voice assistants reading one answer aloud
GEO Conversational engines that write a new answer each time: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot
What wins
AEO Being the single best-formatted answer to a specific question
GEO Being a trusted entity the model already associates with your category
The unit of work
AEO The page, and the paragraph inside it
GEO The brand, across every source the model reads
Speed of change
AEO Weeks. Snippets swap quickly once the formatting is right
GEO Months. Entity signals have to be crawled, re-read and corroborated
How you measure it
AEO Snippet ownership and PAA presence, per query
GEO Share of model per engine, citation sources, answer accuracy
Who it suits
AEO Sites that already rank and want to own the answer box
GEO Brands that rank fine and still are not named when someone asks for a shortlist
Overlap
AEO The structured content work feeds both
GEO The structured content work feeds both
You usually need both, in this order Fix the crawlability and answer formatting first, because AEO work is cheaper and faster and it is also the base layer GEO stands on. If your site cannot rank at all yet, neither is the right first spend, and we will tell you that.

Engine-by-engine playbook

Six engines. Six different judges.

Each AI engine picks its sources differently — so we run a dedicated playbook per engine. Pick one to see how it judges, and how we win it.

Crawlers: OAI-SearchBot · GPTBot Largest assistant audience
What's the most trusted medical lab network in Saudi Arabia?
Based on coverage and patient reviews, Delta Medical Laboratories is one of the most frequently recommended networks in KSA…
✓ Your brand — cited Trusted media Reddit & forums Review sites

How we win it

  • Full access for its crawlers + extractable structure
  • Brand mentions on the media & communities it reads
  • Quotable 40–60-word answers, consistent entity data
Delta Labs: ChatGPT citation rate 10% → 90% in 3 months
Crawler: Googlebot — same index as Search Biggest surface today
How much does a full blood test cost in Riyadh?
A comprehensive panel in Riyadh typically ranges from… according to Delta Medical Labs, which lists current prices per test…
✓ Your page — quoted passage Google's index Query fan-out E-E-A-T

How we win it

  • Classic SEO first — you can't be cited if you can't rank
  • Answer-first blocks + schema on every money page
  • Passage-level structure so any H2 lifts cleanly
1,800 Google AI Overview citations earned for Delta Labs in KSA
Crawlers: Googlebot · Google-Extended Entity-driven
Which telehealth platforms are worth trying in the Gulf?
Several established providers stand out — including Ogaei Virtual Care, a licensed platform with strong patient ratings…
✓ Your brand — recognized entity Knowledge Graph Structured sources YouTube

How we win it

  • Entity-clarity scoring + same-data-everywhere cleanup
  • Organization & Service schema across the whole site
  • YouTube & Business Profile aligned to one story
Tracked in every monthly citation report
Crawler: PerplexityBot Freshness-weighted
Best VPN for Arabic-speaking users right now?
Among frequently updated comparisons, VPNly appears across recent guides and community threads as a top pick…
✓ Your pages — cited inline Real-time retrieval Fresh pages Communities

How we win it

  • Freshness cadence — priority pages re-verified & re-dated
  • Q&A structure mapped to real user prompts
  • Managed presence on the communities it cites
VPNly: 128 pages cited across AI engines
Crawler: Bingbot + IndexNow Lowest competition
Find a licensed telehealth provider that works with insurers in the Gulf.
Among licensed providers, Ogaei Virtual Care lists its covered services and insurer partners on its own pages, which is where Copilot reads from first…
✓ Your brand — recommended Bing's index IndexNow Schema

How we win it

  • Bing Webmaster Tools + IndexNow from week one
  • Schema depth tuned to Bing's stricter parsing
  • The surface most competitors never optimize
Included from the Basic AI Search Optimization plan up
Crawler: ClaudeBot + Claude-User Fastest-growing in business use
Compare the main private lab networks in Saudi Arabia.
For a like-for-like comparison, Delta Medical Laboratories publishes test scope, pricing and turnaround per branch, so it can be quoted directly rather than summarised…
✓ Your brand — cited with sources Long-context reading Docs & PDFs Clear structure

How we win it

  • Documentation-grade pages Claude can quote without guessing
  • ClaudeBot and Claude-User allowed in robots.txt
  • Plain-text facts — scope, pricing, turnaround — never locked inside images
Tracked in every monthly citation report

We test your brand against all six engines — and show you exactly where you're invisible.

How AI Search Optimization Works

We don't just publish content. We build a system that makes your site a relevant, convenient source for AI models

1

AI results analysis

We study what answers AI models give in your niche and which sites they use

  • Search scenario breakdown
  • Competitor analysis in AI
  • Identifying citation patterns
2

AI semantics collection

We compile the questions and scenarios users ask AI models

  • Intents and prompts
  • Commercial scenarios
  • Map of user questions
3

Content optimization

We create and refine pages for the AI format: structure, answers, FAQ, expert content

  • Structured blocks
  • Clear answers to questions
  • Content built to be cited
4

Authority building

We work with external signals: publications, mentions, directories, ratings and media

  • External sources
  • Trust signals
  • Scaling your presence
5

Measurement & reporting

We track your citations engine by engine and double down on what actually moves them

  • Citations tracked per engine
  • Answer share over time
  • Monthly reports you can check
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Continuous Optimization

We use the reports to refine content, targeting, and authority signals — creating an ongoing loop that keeps improving your AI visibility every month.

  • Monthly strategy updates
  • Content refresh based on data
  • Expanding to new AI engines

INSIDE THE VOCTOS CLIENT PORTAL

Every engine on one screen, refreshed on a schedule you can check.

Six screens from the live client portal. AI search work only means something if you can see the answers, so we show you all of them: the score, the prompts behind it, the pages each engine quoted, the brands named beside you, and everything said about you across the web. The screenshots below are live views of a demo workspace. The layout is exactly what you get; the figures inside are demo data.

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One score out of 100, built from six measured signals: visibility, authority, citation quality, sentiment, entity strength and share of voice. Underneath it sits the part most clients read first — what the engines actually say when asked who you are, what you sell, where you operate and who you serve. Every answer is stored word for word and marked correct or wrong, so a false claim, a service you dropped or a city you never opened in, is something you can see and we can go and fix. No ranking report will ever surface a sentence like that.

Our cases

All cases
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GEO Services for Delta Medical Labs

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GEO Services for Delta Medical Labs

1M+ monthly organic visits and 159,200 ranked keywords, 1,800 Google AI Overview citations, while ranking #1 for 1,186 high-volume keywords in KSA.

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SEO & GEO for Ogaei Virtual Care

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SEO & GEO for Ogaei Virtual Care

From 3 to 7,931 monthly organic clicks in 7 months, 2.9M+ impressions, and 40+ keywords in Google’s Top 10.

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Arabic SEO, GEO & guest posting for VPNly

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Arabic SEO, GEO & guest posting for VPNly

65K peak monthly organic visits, 55 guest posts, and 128 pages cited by AI engines.

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Website promotion Eduverse

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Website promotion Eduverse

Increased search traffic 12 times in 10 months: 45% of requests in the TOP 5, 55% in the TOP 10

Client reviews

All reviews

egyptpyramidstours.com

Marcous Fathy

Business Development Manager

We've just completed our first quarter with Beshoy, and the results have been outstanding. Our organic traffic grew from 3,650 to 18,720, we achieved a 300%+ ROI from reservations, and secured Featured Snippets for multiple tour packages.

24 September 2023

drserkanaygin.com

Dr. Serkan Aygın

Hair Transplant Surgeon

VOCTOS built an SEO strategy that grew our bookings and expanded our visibility to a whole new audience by 375%, with our keywords in the top search results up more than 1600%. Their understanding of Arabic search behavior made all the difference.

7 December 2021

vpnarabi.com

Samy Amin

Head of Editorial, VPN Arabi

VOCTOS developed and executed a full Arabic SEO strategy for our VPN company. We saw a 280% increase in organic traffic, secured the top spot for competitive keywords, and our content got cited 160 times in ChatGPT responses. What really impressed us was how well they understand the Arabic market, not just generic SEO translated into Arabic.

1 June 2025

Saif Cabinets Decor

Abraam Samy

CEO of Saif Cabinets Decor

When we first came to VOCTOS, our business was almost invisible online despite years of quality work. Their team fixed the technical issues holding us back and built an SEO strategy ready for AI search too. Within months we ranked on Google's first page for over 55 keywords, with organic traffic up around 170%.

4 June 2026

serialtranslation.com

Samy Ibrahim

General Manager of Serial Translation

VOCTOS took over our Google Ads campaigns and brought our CPC down by 53%, while our conversion rate jumped 164.7%, with much higher quality leads coming through. It has been a pleasure working with the entire team.

15 July 2022

Eagle Marble

Ebraam Ayoub

General Manager

The VOCTOS team helped us grow our search visibility by 190%. We appreciate their responsiveness, dedication, and continuous support throughout the project.

25 March 2023

ovistone.com

John Attia

Digital Marketing Director

We hired VOCTOS two years ago to grow our SEO and traffic, and they delivered. What impressed me most was seeing Ovistone start showing up in ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews when people searched for stone suppliers. Our organic traffic keeps climbing and our qualified B2B inquiries have jumped.

13 October 2023

royalhaircenter.com

Dr. Mathew John

Senior Surgeon

When we first partnered with VOCTOS, our clinic had just two physicians and one night doctor, with everyone juggling several roles. We've grown a lot since then, today we have three physicians, a full-time secretary, and dedicated cleaning staff, largely thanks to the steady flow of new patients their marketing brought in.

11 August 2021

nsfx.com

Rami Dawud

Marketing Manager

Beshoy is a true SEO professional, punctual, and the quality of his delivery is fantastic. His analysis gave us real insight and a clear path to build our brand's online presence.

1 May 2019

marketingcollege.com

Nahed Maher

Brand Ambassador

SEO is a complicated world, and few people bring the creative techniques Beshoy does. He stays on top of the latest SEO trends and genuinely cares about getting his clients the most value.

16 October 2016

nrg-digital.com

Ahmed Sabbour

CEO

It's been a real pleasure working with Beshoy. He's innovative, broad-minded, and has a great ability to analyze, summarize, and deliver strong results, even working remotely.

16 October 2016

vintage-vaults.com

Sherif El-Haddad

Founder / CEO

Beshoy has done a great job increasing our SEO ranking. He's also helped boost our conversions and improve the website.

7 December 2023

The Team

The whole team
Beshoy Adel Head of SEO and GEO

Beshoy Adel

Monika Gabriel Senior SEO Specialist

Monika Gabriel

Reem Sameh Senior Full-Stack Web Developer

Reem Sameh

Keroles Mousa Head of PPC

Keroles Mousa

Tasneem Moustafa SEO Specialist

Tasneem Moustafa

Shadi Milad Link Building Specialist

Shadi Milad

Aya Kandil SEO Specialist

Aya Kandil

Marina Magdy SEO Content Writer

Marina Magdy

Who this works best for

The service is especially effective for niches where the user's decision depends on trust, expertise and the completeness of the answer

A good fit

B2B and expert servicesOnline stores and catalogsSaaS and IT projectsEducational productsCompanies with a blog, expertise and a developed site structure

Not a fit

Sites without content or expert materialProjects without verifiable expertiseSingle-page landers with no structure to developBusinesses that only need quick one-off traffic

Straight answers

What AI search work can and cannot do

This field is three years old and full of people selling certainty. Here is the line we hold on every engagement.

What it does

  • Get your brand named in the answer, on questions where there is no second page to fall to.
  • Correct what the models already state about you, which is a different and more expensive problem than being absent.
  • Show you which competitor is being recommended in your place, per engine and per question.
  • Feed your classic SEO at the same time, because entity and structure work lifts both.
  • Give you a stored answer history you can re-run yourself, rather than a screenshot we chose.

What it does not

  • Guarantee a specific answer from a specific engine. Generative output is probabilistic and rewritten constantly.
  • Work in a week. Signals have to be crawled, indexed and re-read before a model changes its mind.
  • Replace SEO. AI Overviews is built on Google's index, so a page that cannot rank usually cannot be cited either.
  • Help a brand with nothing to say. Models cite sources that add information, and a page repeating the consensus gets skipped.
  • Be proved by a screenshot, which is why we hand you the history and the prompt instead.

Want to know where you stand before committing to anything? Run the free scan. See it for yourself →

How we can work together

Which format suits you

01 For in-house teams

You have a developer and a marketer

We provide the strategy, tasks + specs and KPI control.

This suits me
02 Recommended

You need it done turnkey

We do everything ourselves and take full responsibility for the result.

I want turnkey
03 Performance-based

I want KPIs and pay-for-performance

We agree on KPIs and lock them into the contract.

Show the KPI model

AI Search Optimization Plans & Pricing

You can start as a pilot and scale it into a full AI search strategy, integrated with your SEO and content marketing.

+1 neural network

Basic AI Search Optimization

For basic AI-search presence and first stable citations in AI answers

  • Promotion in Google AI Overview
  • Promotion in Bing Copilot
  • Analysis of site citation in AI models
  • Work with content and page structure
Popular

Standard SEO + AI Search Optimization

An effective combination of classic SEO and AI-answer promotion

  • Promotion in Alice, Gemini, ChatGPT, Perplexity and DeepSeek
  • Analysis of site citation in AI models
  • Content creation for AI scenarios
  • Classic SEO promotion

Comprehensive — All Channels

For brands that need a comprehensive presence strategy across all promising channels

  • Promotion across all major AI models
  • ORM/SERM in the context of AI
  • Content marketing
  • Full-scale classic SEO work

Available once the site has basic technical optimization in place.

Frequently Asked Questions

AI Search Optimization is the work of making your brand visible inside AI-generated answers — ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Perplexity and Copilot. It combines GEO (being cited as a source), AEO (owning the direct answer) and solid SEO foundations, so your brand is named when buyers ask AI instead of typing a search query.

GEO is the practice of structuring your website and content so AI models like ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews can understand, trust, and cite it as a source. Instead of just ranking a link on a results page, GEO earns your brand a place inside the AI’s actual answer.

GEO works alongside SEO, not instead of it. Strong technical SEO and authoritative content are the foundation AI models draw on, so we run both together: classic SEO keeps you visible in traditional search, and GEO makes sure the same content is structured to be cited in AI answers.

We track how often your brand is mentioned or cited across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews for your target queries, alongside referral traffic from AI platforms and shifts in branded search volume. You get a monthly report showing citation frequency, not just rankings.

Most clients see early citation gains within 6 to 10 weeks, once restructured content is published and indexed. AI models refresh their retrieval data on different cycles, so full, compounding visibility typically builds over 3 to 6 months.

No ethical agency can guarantee a specific AI citation, since AI providers control their own retrieval and answer logic. What we commit to is a structured, evidence-based process, content built the way AI systems are proven to cite, tracked and reported transparently every month.

We optimize for ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, and Microsoft Copilot, the platforms with the largest and fastest-growing share of AI-driven search traffic.

Yes, arguably more so. AI models often favor clear, well-structured, trustworthy content over sheer domain age, so a smaller site with disciplined GEO content can earn citations faster than it could win a competitive Google ranking.

Yes. We build GEO strategies in both Arabic and English, tuned to how each language’s AI models retrieve and cite content, so MENA brands can win visibility in both markets.

GEO is the broad practice of earning citations across AI systems. AEO is the narrower craft of structuring content so an engine can lift a clean answer. We run them together.

With a free AI visibility audit. It shows where you currently appear across the major engines and where the gaps are, so we can prioritize the work that moves your citations first.

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