SEO and AI search
AI Search Optimization Services With SEO Built In
If you want rankings and AI citations from one team instead of two vendors, this is the service. Our AI search optimization services run SEO and AI answers as one job for funded AI startups, because AI answers that search the web draw most of their sources from pages that rank on Google and Bing. For Viggle AI, keywords in Google's top three rose 362%.
Led by the former Senior SEO Manager at Invideo AI. Trusted by Viggle AI, HeyOz, Wisemonk and Monk.
Measured against a fixed baseline on every engagement.
- Viggle AI
- HeyOz
- Wisemonk
- Monk
- Zivoke
- TryScent
Why splitting SEO and AI search costs you twice
Two vendors means two roadmaps pulling at the same pages. The SEO agency rewrites a page for a keyword, the AI specialist rewrites it for a prompt, and neither owns the result. One plan stops you paying for the same page twice.
What our AI search optimization services include
Each deliverable does double duty. A fix that helps a page rank also has to make it citable, and anything we do for AI answers has to hold up on Google and Bing.
Covered on every engine your buyers use
- ChatGPT
- Perplexity
- Claude
- Gemini
- Google AI Overviews
- Google AI Mode
- Copilot
- Bing
ChatGPT search and Copilot draw on Bing's index, so Bing rankings feed AI answers. We work on search and AI engines as one program.
How it works
The same four steps on every engagement, with a clear view of what to expect at 30, 60 and 90 days.
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Understand
Map your product, buyers, competitors and the prompts and searches that decide your category.
Days 1 to 30. A fixed baseline across every engine and the prompts that matter.
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Prioritize
Pick the few moves that will get you recommended fastest and turn them into a focused roadmap.
Days 1 to 30. A focused roadmap agreed, with the first fixes already shipping.
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Execute
Do the technical, content, authority and AI visibility work ourselves.
Days 30 to 60. Content, technical and authority work shipping every week.
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Improve
Track citations, rankings and conversions against the baseline and keep refining.
Days 60 to 90. A first read against the baseline, then the next quarter planned.
Results we can show you
Every engagement is measured against a fixed baseline set before the work started, so the before and after can be checked rather than taken on trust.
Who this is for, and who it is not for
A good fit
Funded AI startups, seed to Series B, moving search and AI work under one team
- Startups paying an SEO agency and an AI specialist
- Teams that rank well but are rarely cited
- Founders who want one report for the board
- Products with a few strong pages and many weak ones
Not a fit yet
- Teams that want AI answers only and no SEO
- Companies locked into a long SEO contract elsewhere
- Sites that can't ship page changes for months at a time
One service for SEO and AI search, or two vendors
| SearchAxe | SEO agency and AI vendor | SEO agency alone | AI answer specialist alone | |
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| Roadmaps | One, covering both | Two, often in conflict | One, search only | One, AI answers only |
| Each page optimized once | Yes, for rank and citation | Often rewritten twice | For rank only | For citation only |
| Bing coverage | Fixed as AI groundwork | Falls between vendors | Often skipped | Rarely technical |
| Reporting | Rankings, citations and signups together | Two reports to reconcile | Rankings and traffic | Mentions and share of voice |
| Contracts to manage | One | Two | One, with AI answers uncovered | One, with SEO bought elsewhere |
What you get each month
- Baseline report Where you stand on every engine and in search before any work starts.
- Monthly AI citation and ranking report Citations by engine, rankings and referring domains, read against the baseline.
- Signups and demos attributed The pipeline that search and AI answers drove that month.
- Slack access A shared channel with the people doing the work.
- Rolling roadmap What shipped, what is next and why, updated every month.
- Competitor movement Which competitors gained or lost ground in AI answers and search, and why.
How we get started
From first call to work in progress in three steps.
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Book a free consultation
A call about your product, your market and where you stand in AI answers and search today.
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Get a plan and a quote
We send a plan for what we would do first, with a clear quote for the work.
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Work starts right away
Once the plan and quote are approved, the work starts immediately.
What clients say
We had thousands of pages going nowhere. Amit cleaned that up and rebuilt our landing pages. Our top three rankings are up 362% and our citations across AI engines have grown more than a hundred times.
Nan Ha
Product Growth Lead, Viggle AI
Read the Viggle AI case study
We came to Amit with a good product and almost no search presence. He gave our team a plan we could actually follow. Referring domains are up 183% and our first page rankings have more than tripled.
George Kurdin
Co-Founder, Monk
Read the Monk case study
Our content was getting published but not landing anywhere. Amit reworked how we format it for AI engines and our citations across all seven engines are up over 400%. The Reddit community he built now brings us leads weekly.
Aditya Nagpal
Founder, Wisemonk
Read the Wisemonk case study
We launched with a homepage and nothing else. Amit built the search foundation, the landing pages, the blog, the schema. Our domain rating is up 70% and we went from zero AI citations to being quoted by six of the seven AI engines.
Ahad Shams
Founder, HeyOz
Read the HeyOz case study
We had multiple pages fighting each other for the same terms. Amit mapped it all out, consolidated what needed consolidating, and rebuilt our service pages. Organic traffic is up 147% and our top three rankings have more than doubled.
Manjunath Thandu
CEO, Zivoke
Read the Zivoke case study
Who's behind SearchAxe
Amit Malvi spent four and a half years at Invideo AI, rising from SEO Executive to Senior SEO Manager. He built and led a 20-person link building team and owned the company's GEO and AEO programs. Today he works hands-on with a small number of AI startups.
Questions buyers ask us
How do rankings feed AI citations?
Engines that search the web at answer time start from search results. ChatGPT search and Copilot draw on Bing's index, and Google's AI answers draw on Google's. A page outside those results is hard for an answer to find. Ranking gets you into the pool; clear structure and specific facts decide whether your page is the one quoted.
Is this just SEO with a new name?
No. Plenty of pages rank and never get cited, because the answer they hold is buried or vague. The AI half of the work adds prompt tracking on every engine, rewrites aimed at being quoted, and mentions on the roundups and communities answers lean on. Classic SEO doesn't measure or fix any of that.
Can you take over from our current SEO agency?
Yes. We start by reading their past work and your Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools data, so nothing that's working gets undone, and the baseline covers rankings and AI citations from day one. If you'd rather keep them for part of the work, that can run if the split is written down, though one owner for both channels is the point of this service.
What goes in the monthly report?
Rankings on Google and Bing for your keyword set, citations by engine for the matched prompts, and the organic and AI-referred signups behind both, each next to its baseline value. Under the numbers sits a short list of what shipped, what's next and which competitor moved, so the report tells you what to fund, not just what happened.
Which engines does the service cover?
ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode and Copilot, plus Google and Bing for organic search. Buyers in most AI categories use more than one, so we don't optimize for a favorite. If your analytics show one engine sending most AI referrals, we weight the roadmap toward the prompts that matter there.
How long until both rankings and citations move?
Pages already sitting on page two can climb within a few months of fixes. New pages and new domains take longer; HeyOz reached page-one positions ten months after launching with a single homepage. Citations don't always follow rankings. They can arrive earlier when a third-party source starts naming you, or later when a page ranks but buries its answer. The day-90 read against the baseline shows which side moved first.
Do you write content, or only optimize existing pages?
Both. Most early work fixes pages you already have, because they carry history with Google and Bing. New pages go where the keyword and prompt map shows a gap, usually comparisons, alternatives and use cases. We write them, you approve them, and each is built to rank and to be quoted from the first draft.
How does the cost compare with hiring two vendors?
It's quoted after a free consultation, based on how much needs fixing and how fast you can ship. One team covering both channels means one set of research, one audit of your pages and one report, rather than two of each billed separately. We send the plan and the quote together, and work starts when you approve them.
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