Insurance SEO
SEO, AEO and GEO for Insurance Carriers, Brokers and Insurtech
People pricing a policy now ask an AI engine what coverage they need and who sells it, then check Google for the cost. If your agency is in neither answer, the quote request goes to a comparison site that resells it. Our insurance SEO work combines SEO, AEO and GEO so your coverage pages get ranked and cited. We measure it in quote requests, read against a baseline.
Why insurance buyers shortlist before they ever request a quote
Insurance shopping starts with a question, not a carrier name. A landlord in Florida asks an AI engine what a policy costs and whether flood is included. A contractor searches for the best small business insurance for their trade. The answer explains the coverage, then names three or four providers, usually lifted from NerdWallet, Policygenius or The Zebra. By the time someone fills in a quote form, the shortlist is set, and most independent agencies were never on it.
What we build for insurance SEO, AEO and GEO
Six workstreams, run from one roadmap and ordered by what your baseline shows. Every page is written for the lines and states you are licensed in, carries the license disclosures your state requires, and goes through your compliance review, plus carrier approval where it applies, before it ships.
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 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.
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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 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 below is an insurance business. The method we used for a finance automation platform and a Salesforce partner, clear pages, the right sources and a fixed baseline, is what carries over to coverage searches.
Who this is for, and who it is not for
A good fit
Insurance businesses licensed where they sell, with a quote process they can count and a compliance lead who can approve new pages
- Carriers selling direct in personal or commercial lines
- Independent agencies and brokers, including benefits brokers
- Specialty and commercial lines writers in niche trades
- Insurtech and insurance comparison platforms
Not a fit yet
- Agencies that only want more shared leads to work
- Teams that cannot get compliance or carrier sign-off on new pages
- 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 insurers buy visibility
| SearchAxe | Insurance lead vendor | Insurance marketing agency | Carrier marketing templates | |
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| Understands how your buyers research | Maps coverage questions by line and state | Sells the lead, not the research | Often keyword lists by line | Same generic copy for every agency |
| Works on AI answers and search together | One roadmap for both | Neither, leads only | Search first, AI as an add-on | No |
| Ships the fixes | We write, fix and publish | Nothing changes on your site | Often plans and reports | You publish what other agencies publish |
| Earns third-party mentions | The publications and directories answers cite | No | Sometimes, often paid links | No |
| Compliance-aware copy | Written for your review and disclosures | Not your copy to control | Varies by writer | Approved, but duplicated across agencies |
| Measured against a baseline | Quote requests, citations and rankings | Lead count only | Traffic and rankings | Not measured |
| Published pricing | Yes, from $499 per month | Per lead, varies by line | Usually on request | No fee, little control |
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.
- Quote requests attributed The quote requests and agent appointments 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.
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Book a free consultation
A call about your business, 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 quote for the plan you choose.
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Work starts right away
Once the plan and quote are approved, the work starts immediately.
What clients say
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
Can an independent agency rank against carriers and comparison sites?
Not on every broad term, and we won't pretend otherwise. Carriers and aggregators win searches like car insurance quotes. Independent agencies can win the narrower questions those sites answer badly: one line in one state, a trade with unusual risks, a town where you have an office. Those searches come from people closer to buying, and an AI engine can only name a specialist that has a clear page to cite.
How do you build state pages without thin content?
We only build a state page when there is something state-specific to say: the rules, the required minimums, common exclusions, the carriers you write there and the questions people in that state ask. Pages that would differ only by the state name get merged instead. Larger programs are planned as templates by line and state, and a person checks every template and a sample of pages before anything is published.
Do AI answers matter for coverage questions?
Yes, because coverage is where people want an explanation before a price. Someone asking whether they need umbrella insurance gets a short answer and a few provider names in the same reply, before they have opened a single search result. Google's own answers work the same way on many cost searches, which is why Google's AI answers in search are part of the plan, not an extra.
Will the content pass our compliance review?
It is written to. We follow state insurance advertising rules, show license disclosures where they are required, avoid savings promises and comparative claims you cannot support, and flag anything that needs carrier approval. Every page goes to your compliance lead before it is published, and we keep a record of what was approved and when. Nothing ships on our say-so alone.
How do you attribute quote requests to search and AI answers?
We tag quote forms, calls and appointment bookings in your analytics, separate AI referral traffic from Google and Bing, and set the baseline before work starts. Where your agency management system or CRM records the source of a quote, we match it to bound policies. The monthly report then shows quote requests and, where the data allows, cost per bound policy beside your lead vendor costs.
What does an AI engine need before it names an agency?
Three things. A page on your site that answers the exact question, written plainly enough to quote. A consistent record of who you are, what you write and where you are licensed. And sources it already trusts, such as NerdWallet, Bankrate or a local publication, saying the same about you. Without all three, answers fall back on carriers and aggregators, and so do the quote requests that follow them.
How long before we see results?
We set the baseline in the first 30 days: rankings, AI citations on your coverage prompts and quote requests from search. Technical fixes and new pages register first. Earning mentions on the publications answers cite takes longer, and compliance review adds time to every page. You get the first full read against the baseline at day 90. We don't promise rankings, citations or quote volumes by any date.
What does it cost?
There are three plans. Link Building and Brand Mentions is $499 per month, SEO Consulting is $999 per month and Full Service SEO and AI Visibility, which runs all six workstreams, is $1,499 per month. The $199 AI Visibility Audit is a one-time check of where your agency stands today. Listing or placement fees are paid by you directly. The detail is on our pricing page.
Do you need access to our systems?
We need read access to your analytics and Search Console, and edit access to your CMS or someone who can publish for us. We never need policyholder data or client records from your agency management system. If matching quotes to bound policies needs a report from it, your team exports only the source and status fields, once your compliance lead has agreed.
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