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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.

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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.

Comparison sites outrank us on every coverage search

Aggregators and national carriers hold the top results for cost and coverage questions in every state you write. Your agency ranks for its own name and little else, so people still comparing options never see you, and the few who do arrive holding three other quotes.

The leads we buy go to five other agents

A shared lead means racing four or five competitors to the phone for the same person. You pay per lead whether it binds or not, your cost per bound policy keeps climbing, and the day you stop paying the vendor, the flow stops with it.

AI answers never mention our agency

Ask an AI engine for the best commercial auto insurance for a trucking company in your state and it names carriers and comparison sites. It has no page of yours that answers the question and no publication it trusts that lists you, so you are left out.

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.

01

Coverage questions mapped by line and state

We list what your buyers ask, such as how much landlord insurance costs in Florida, whether a household needs umbrella insurance or which policies suit a restaurant. Then we record which providers each engine names and who ranks on Google and Bing for the same questions.

02

Coverage, cost and claims pages engines can quote

Coverage explainers by situation and state, cost pages that explain what moves a premium without promising savings, comparison pages, claim process pages and commercial pages for trades such as contractors, restaurants and trucking. Each opens with a direct answer and carries your license details.

03

Mentions on the sources coverage answers cite

We trace which publications and directories the answers cite for your lines, from NerdWallet, Bankrate and Policygenius to The Zebra and the Insurance Information Institute, then work to earn your agency a place among them. Any listing or placement fees are approved and paid by you.

04

One consistent record for every office and agent

Agency name, lines written, carriers represented, license details and office addresses kept identical across your site, schema, Google Business Profile and state insurance department records. Location pages for each office are part of the plan, so local searches and AI answers describe you the same way.

05

State pages that index without reading as thin

Insurance sites often ship near-identical state and city pages, quote forms that hide content from crawlers and carrier widgets that render nothing readable. We fix indexation and rendering, merge duplicates and confirm Google, Bing and AI crawlers can read every coverage page you want found.

06

Quote requests counted, not just visits

We track quote form starts and completions, calls and agent appointments from search and AI referrals in your own analytics. Where your agency management system records the source of a quote, we match it to bound policies and report cost per bound policy beside what lead vendors charge.

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 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.

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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
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.

  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

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.

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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