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SEO, AEO and GEO for Schools, Universities and Education Companies

Students and parents now ask AI engines to compare programs and get a shortlist before they fill in an enquiry form. If you are missing from it, or described by a program name you retired, the application goes elsewhere. Our education SEO work runs SEO, AEO and GEO across your program pages and the sources engines trust. We measure it in applications and enrolments against a fixed baseline.

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Why students choose a program before they ever contact you

A prospective student types "best online MBA for working parents" or "is a UX bootcamp worth it" into Google or an AI engine. The answer comes back as a shortlist with reasons, pulled from ranking sites, Reddit threads, government data and the few institution pages that state cost, duration and outcomes plainly. Parents ask the same questions a week later. By the time anyone opens your enquiry form, the shortlist is usually settled, and the schools on it are the ones that answered.

Ranking sites own every search for our programs

Search your program name with "reviews" or "worth it" and page one is league tables, aggregators and lead-generation sites. They rent your prospective students back to you, and every enquiry that starts on their page costs more than one that starts on yours.

Our program pages read like a course catalogue

Module codes, credit hours and an apply button, but nothing on total cost, time to finish, entry requirements or what graduates do next. Those are the questions students ask, so engines quote a ranking site or a rival school that answered them instead.

AI answers still use our old program names

Engines describe you from whatever they read most, which is often a renamed degree, a closed campus or a faculty that merged years ago. A student who hears that version either can't find the current program or assumes you stopped offering it.

What we build for education SEO, AEO and GEO

Six workstreams, run from one roadmap and ordered by what your baseline shows. Each is built around how students, parents and employers research programs, and each answers to the same numbers at the end of the month: applications, enrolments and enquiries from search and AI answers, in your own analytics.

01

The program questions students and parents actually ask

We map program, comparison and worth-it questions, such as best online MBA for working parents, is a UX bootcamp worth it and your school against its closest rival, by market and intake. Then we record which institutions each engine and each search result names today.

02

Program pages that answer cost, outcomes and admission

Program pages that state cost, duration, entry requirements and graduate outcomes in plain sentences, plus comparison pages, career outcome pages and FAQ pages for parents and international students. Every outcome or salary figure carries its source and date, so admissions and compliance can sign it off.

03

A fair place on the rankings engines read

We trace the sources answers cite for your programs, such as Niche, US News, QS, Times Higher Education, Course Report, SwitchUp, Coursera and edX, then correct your profiles and pitch the publications among them. Engines read Reddit threads too, but we don't work Reddit.

04

One current account of your institution and programs

Institution and faculty entity pages, course and organisation schema, campus pages, and Google Business Profile listings for each campus that match your site. Accreditations and program names stay consistent with the government education data engines check, and retired names redirect to the program that replaced them.

05

A site crawlers can read across campuses and languages

Education sites sprawl: duplicate program pages for every intake, course finders that render in JavaScript, prospectuses locked in PDFs and country versions without hreflang. We fix indexation and rendering, confirm AI crawlers can reach program pages and keep Google and Bing indexing the current versions.

06

Applications and enrolments counted, not just traffic

Each month we rerun the same program prompts on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode and Copilot, then report rankings, citations, enquiry forms, open-day registrations and applications from search, with cost per enrolment set beside your paid channels.

Covered on every engine your buyers use

  • ChatGPT
  • Perplexity
  • Claude
  • Gemini
  • Google AI Overviews
  • Google AI Mode
  • Copilot

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.

  1. 01

    Understand

    Map your business, 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.

  2. 02

    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.

  3. 03

    Execute

    Do the technical, content, authority and AI visibility work ourselves.

    Days 30 to 60. Content, technical and authority work shipping every week.

  4. 04

    Improve

    Track AI citations, rankings and the leads they drive against the baseline and keep refining.

    Days 60 to 90. A first read against the baseline, then the next quarter planned.

Case studies

Neither case study is a school. The method we used for an EOR platform competing in a crowded category, and for a Salesforce partner with too many overlapping pages, is what carries over to program pages.

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Who this is for, and who it is not for

A good fit

Schools, universities and course providers with live program pages, open intakes and a way to count the applications or enrolments search brings in

  • Universities, colleges and private or international schools
  • Vocational schools and bootcamp providers
  • Online course platforms, edtech, tutoring and test prep
  • Corporate training providers

Not a fit yet

  • Institutions that want outcome or salary claims published without a source
  • Lead-generation sites reselling student enquiries to schools
  • Businesses with no live website or nothing to sell yet
  • Anyone expecting guaranteed placement in a specific answer

How we compare with the other ways schools buy visibility

SearchAxe Education marketing agency Aggregator and ranking listings In-house admissions marketing
Understands how your buyers research Maps student and parent prompts by intake Knows admissions, less so AI answers Owns the research, keeps the student Knows students, rarely tracks AI answers
Works on AI answers and search together Yes, one plan for both Search often secondary to paid No, they rent you visibility Depends on team capacity
Ships the fixes Yes, pages, schema and technical work Campaigns more than site fixes No, your site is untouched Queued behind web and IT
Earns third-party mentions Rankings, directories and publications Press releases, sometimes Only their own listing Rarely in scope
Compliance-aware copy Sourced outcomes, checked accreditation claims Varies by agency Their copy, not yours Yes, close to your reviewers
Measured against a baseline Fixed baseline, read every month Campaign reports, rarely a baseline Lead counts, not your visibility Usually web analytics only
Published pricing Yes, from $499 per month Usually on request Per lead or per listing Salaries, tools and agency fees

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.
  • Applications and enrolments attributed The enquiry forms, open-day registrations and applications that search and AI answers drove that month, in your own analytics.
  • 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.

  1. 01

    Book a free consultation

    A call about your business, your market and where you stand in AI answers and search today.

  2. 02

    Get a plan and a quote

    We send a plan for what we would do first, with a quote for the plan you choose.

  3. 03

    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 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 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 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 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 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 businesses across 16 industries, from SaaS and AI startups to law firms, clinics, online stores and manufacturers, that want to be the name search and AI engines recommend.

Pricing

Published prices, in US dollars per month. The plan that fits this work is below.

Full Service SEO and AI Visibility

$1,499 per month

Minimum three months

For businesses that want one partner to own search and AI visibility end to end, from the fixes to the monthly report.

  • Everything in SEO Consulting
  • Technical fixes, on-page work and citation-ready pages
  • Link building, brand mentions and entity optimization
  • Monthly reporting on citations, rankings and the leads they drive

Third-party fees, such as editorial or placement fees and paid listings, are paid by you directly.

Questions buyers ask us

How do you build program pages at scale without duplicate content?

We build one template around the questions every program must answer, cost, duration, entry requirements, delivery mode and outcomes, then fill it with the facts that differ per program. Where two pages would say the same thing, such as one degree offered in three intakes, we merge them into one page with the variations inside it. Large catalogues may suit a programmatic build. Small ones get written by hand.

Can we compete with ranking sites and aggregators?

On searches for your own programs and institution, yes, and that is where we start. Ranking sites win because they answer cost, outcomes and comparisons more plainly than most schools do. We fix that on your pages, then make sure your profiles on those sites are accurate, because engines quote them either way. Earning coverage in the publications they cite is part of our brand mentions work. Any listing or editorial fees are paid by you directly.

How do you handle is-it-worth-it questions in AI answers?

Engines answer worth-it questions with cost, time to finish, completion and what graduates do next, and they take those facts from whoever states them clearly with a source. We publish them on your program and outcome pages, dated and sourced, and make sure the same figures appear on the third-party profiles engines read. We can't control the verdict an engine gives. We can make sure it is built from your accurate numbers.

Do you work with international and multi-campus sites?

Yes. Each campus gets its own page and a matching Google Business Profile listing. Country and language versions get hreflang, and we decide which program pages are shared and which need a local version for fees, visas or entry rules. International students ask different questions, about visas, accommodation and whether their qualifications are recognised, so they get their own FAQ pages rather than a translated copy of the domestic ones.

How do you attribute applications to search and AI answers?

We tag enquiry forms, open-day registrations and application starts in your analytics, separate AI referrals from organic search and connect both to your CRM or student system where we can. Enrolment lands months after the first visit, so we report the leading numbers monthly and match enrolments back by intake. Some AI influence leaves no click at all, which is why we also track how often engines name you on a fixed prompt set.

How long before we see results?

We set the baseline in the first 30 days and give you the first full read against it at day 90. Technical fixes and rewritten program pages usually register first. Rankings and a place in AI shortlists take longer, because they depend on third-party sources too. Recruitment runs in cycles, so we plan the work around your application deadlines. We don't guarantee rankings, citations or application numbers.

What does it cost?

Plans run from $499 to $1,499 per month. Full Service SEO and AI Visibility is $1,499 per month with a three-month minimum. SEO Consulting is $999 per month, month to month, for teams with their own writers. Link Building and Brand Mentions is $499 per month. The AI Visibility Audit is a one-time $199. Listing and editorial fees are paid by you directly. Every plan is on our pricing page.

Do you need access to our systems?

We need read access to your analytics and Search Console, and editor access to your CMS or a staging site if we publish pages. Admissions and student record systems stay with you. We only need application and enrolment counts, or a report from them, to attribute results. Every page goes through your admissions, academic and compliance reviewers before it goes live.

Will the content pass our compliance review?

That is how we write it. Accreditation claims name the accrediting body and match its public record. Outcome and salary figures carry their source, cohort and date, or they stay out. We follow the advertising rules for education in each market you recruit in, and your reviewers sign off every page. Where a claim can't be sourced, we rewrite it to say only what the evidence supports.

Let's get your business recommended.

Tell us what you sell, who buys it and where you show up today. We'll reply within one business day with what is costing you leads and what we would fix first.

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