Real estate SEO
SEO, AEO and GEO for Real Estate Brokerages, Agents and Proptech
Buyers and sellers ask AI engines which agent to use and what an area is like, while portals take the listing searches on Google. If your brokerage only ranks for its own name, every lead comes through a portal you pay. Our real estate SEO runs SEO, AEO and GEO as one plan, from data-backed area guides to agent pages. We count seller and buyer leads against a fixed baseline.
Why buyers and sellers choose an agent before they ever call you
Buyers, sellers and people relocating now research an area and an agent in the same sitting. They ask an AI engine what a neighborhood's commute and housing costs look like, how to sell a house fast in their city or who the best agent is for first-time buyers. The answer summarizes the area and names a few agents or brokerages. On Google and Bing, portals take the listing searches, and Google Business Profile reviews decide which local agent gets the call.
What we build for brokerages and agents in real estate SEO
Real estate visibility is split between the portals, the map pack and AI answers, and a brokerage needs a place in all three. We run six workstreams from one roadmap, ordered by your baseline, and every page follows fair housing language, your MLS and IDX display rules and your license disclosures.
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
We have not published a real estate case study yet, but the method we used for a Salesforce partner with overlapping pages and a fragrance retailer carries over to brokerages whose area pages engines skip.
Who this is for, and who it is not for
A good fit
Brokerages, agents, developers and proptech companies with a live website, markets they already sell in and a way to count the seller and buyer leads search brings in
- Brokerages, teams and luxury or niche agents
- Property developers and new-build communities
- Property managers and commercial real estate firms
- Proptech platforms selling to buyers, sellers or agents
Not a fit yet
- Anyone wanting area guides that describe who lives there
- Sites that want listing data shown outside MLS and IDX rules
- 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 agents buy leads
| SearchAxe | Portal ads and lead packages | Real estate marketing agency | Agent with a template site | |
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| Understands how your buyers research | Maps buyer, seller and relocation prompts | Knows portal traffic, not your site | Often one template across agents | Knows the market, not the engines |
| Works on AI answers and search together | Yes, one plan for both | No, portal placement only | Search first, AI as an add-on | Rarely, no time for it |
| Ships the fixes | We write, fix and publish | Nothing changes on your site | Within contract scope | Evenings and weekends, if ever |
| Earns third-party mentions | Local press, data sites and profiles | Your portal profile only | Sometimes, often paid placements | Rarely |
| Compliance-aware copy | Fair housing, MLS and IDX checked | Handled inside the portal | Varies by agency | Depends on the agent |
| Measured against a baseline | Fixed baseline, read every month | Lead counts from the portal | Traffic and ranking reports | Rarely tracked |
| Published pricing | Yes, from $499 per month | Per lead or per zip code | Usually quoted on request | Template fee plus your time |
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.
- Seller and buyer leads attributed The seller leads, buyer enquiries and listing 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 we compete with Zillow and the other portals?
Not on listing searches, and we won't pretend otherwise. Portals have every listing and years of authority. Where a local brokerage wins is everything around the listing: area guides, selling and relocation questions, market updates and "best agent in [city]" prompts. Portals answer those with generic copy, and AI engines often prefer a local source that knows the market. That is where we put your budget.
Do IDX pages help or hurt indexation?
Usually they hurt when left alone. Most IDX feeds create thousands of near-identical listing pages, many on a vendor subdomain, and sold listings linger. Google spends its crawl on those instead of your area guides. We keep search and saved-search pages out of the index, decide which listing pages stay indexable, and make sure the pages you want found are the ones engines read.
How many area pages make sense?
As many as you can fill with real local data and knowledge, and no more. A guide to an area where your team sells every month, with housing stock, price ranges, commutes and amenities, earns citations. A page for every suburb in the region with the name swapped does not. We start with your strongest markets and add areas when the data supports them, sometimes through programmatic area pages.
Do AI answers matter for relocation questions?
More than for almost any other real estate search. Someone moving cities asks an AI engine what different areas cost, how long the commute is and how to buy before they move, long before they speak to an agent. The answer summarizes the area and often names a local agent or brokerage. A relocation guide built on facts is how your name gets into that answer.
How do you attribute seller leads to search?
We tag every valuation form, contact form, call number and booking link, then tie each lead to the page and channel it came from in your analytics, with AI referrals separated from Google and Bing. If your CRM records listing appointments and signed listings, we connect those too. You see cost per seller lead from search set beside what portals and lead packages charge.
Will the content pass fair housing and MLS rules?
It is written to. Area guides describe places, not people, using housing, prices, transit and amenities from public sources, never who an area suits or which buyers belong there. Listing data follows your MLS and IDX display rules, with the attribution they require, and every page carries your license disclosures. Nothing goes live until your broker or compliance lead signs off.
How long before we see results?
We set a baseline in the first 30 days, covering your market prompts on every engine, rankings and where your current leads come from. IDX and technical fixes ship first, then area guides and agent pages. You get the first full read against the baseline at day 90. We don't promise rankings, citations or lead numbers by any date, because the market and the engines both move.
What does it cost?
We have three monthly plans, from $499 to $1,499 per month. Brokerages with several offices or markets usually need Full Service SEO and AI Visibility. If you want to see where you stand first, our one-time $199 AI Visibility Audit checks what engines say about you in your markets. Portal fees and paid listings stay with you. Every plan is on our pricing page.
Do you need access to our systems?
We need read access to your analytics and Search Console, editor access to your CMS, and settings access to your IDX plugin or vendor so we can control what gets indexed. Read-only access to your CRM reports lets us count listing appointments. We never need client files or transaction records, and your broker approves every page before it goes live.
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