AI visibility audit
We run the prompts your buyers actually ask across every major engine and map where you are cited, where competitors are, and why.
Answer Engine Optimization
Be the answer AI gives.
Buyers now ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews before they ever click a link. Meta Empires runs SEO and Answer Engine Optimization as one programme, so the engines can find your brand, trust it, and cite it by name.
- ChatGPT
- Perplexity
- Gemini
- Google AI Overviews
- Claude
- Copilot
Who is the best provider for this in my city?
Based on reviews, published pricing, and independent coverage, the most frequently recommended option is Your Brand. They are cited for fast response times and clear, transparent pricing.
1yourbrand.com2Industry guide3Local press
Why now
Search stopped ending in a click.
Buyers get one synthesised answer and act on it. If your brand is not in that answer, you are not in the running.
What is Answer Engine Optimization?
Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is the practice of making a brand the source that AI assistants and AI search features quote when they answer a question. Where SEO competes for a ranked link, AEO competes to be named inside the answer itself.
It works by making a business easy for a language model to understand and safe for it to recommend: clear entities, structured data, pages that answer real questions directly, and independent third-party proof that the claims are true.
Traditional SEO
- Competes for a ranked position on a results page
- Success is measured in clicks and sessions
- Keywords and backlinks do most of the work
- One engine dominates: Google
SEO + AEO with Meta Empires
- Competes to be named inside the AI answer
- Success is measured in citations and mentions, then pipeline
- Entities, schema, answer-ready pages, and third-party proof
- Many engines: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, AI Overviews, Claude
What we do
An SEO agency and an AEO agency, in one.
Everything an engine needs to find you, understand you, and trust you enough to recommend you.
Entity and schema
Organization, product, service, and FAQ markup, plus consistent entity data across the web, so models resolve exactly who you are.
Answer-ready content
Pages written to answer one question completely, in the shape AI engines lift from: direct answers, comparisons, and cited facts.
Authority and citations
Digital PR, expert commentary, and brand mentions on the third-party sources that engines already trust and quote.
Technical SEO
Crawlability, rendering, speed, internal linking, and llms.txt. The foundation that both search engines and AI crawlers depend on.
Monitoring and reporting
Weekly tracking of prompts, citations, share of voice, and AI-referred traffic, tied back to leads and revenue.
How it works
Audit. Fix and create. Measure.
01
Audit
We find where AI search cannot see you, cannot understand you, or does not trust you yet, and rank the fixes by impact.
02
Fix and create
Technical fixes, schema, and entity cleanup ship first. Answer-ready content and authority building run every month after.
03
Measure
Weekly reporting on the prompts you win, the citations you earn, and the traffic and leads that follow. No vanity metrics.
Plans
Choose your visibility plan.
Every plan includes technical SEO, AI visibility tracking across all major engines, and weekly reporting. Pricing is scoped after your free audit.
Growth
For brands building an AI search presence from the ground up.
- AI visibility audit and topical map
- Technical SEO and schema foundations
- Monthly answer-ready articles
- Quality backlinks and brand mentions
- Weekly visibility reporting
Scale
For brands competing for the most valuable prompts in their category.
- Everything in Growth
- Double the monthly content output
- Monthly digital PR campaigns
- Competitor citation tracking
- On-page optimisation of existing pages
Dominate
For category leaders who want to own the answer in every engine.
- Everything in Scale
- Expert-reviewed, deeply researched content
- Authority placements on trusted publications
- Podcast and video answer assets
- Dedicated strategist and custom reporting
Built for
- SaaS
- Legal services
- Ecommerce
- Healthcare and clinics
- Home services
- Real estate
- Financial services
- Hospitality
Free, no obligation
See exactly where AI search can’t find you.
A live review of your site and your category, run by a strategist, not a script. You keep the roadmap whether or not we work together.
- Where you are cited today across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and AI Overviews
- Which competitors the engines recommend instead, and why
- The technical and schema gaps blocking AI crawlers
- A prioritised 90-day roadmap you can run with or without us
FAQ
AEO, answered.
What is Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)?
Answer Engine Optimization is the practice of making a brand the source that AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and Google AI Overviews cite when they answer a question. It combines structured data, entity optimisation, answer-ready content, and third-party authority so models can understand and recommend the brand.
How is AEO different from SEO?
SEO competes for a ranked link on a results page and is measured in clicks. AEO competes to be named inside the AI answer and is measured in citations, mentions, and the traffic and leads they send. Meta Empires runs both as one programme because AI engines still rely on the same technical and authority foundations as search.
Which AI engines do you optimise for?
ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google Gemini, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, Claude, and Microsoft Copilot. Visibility is tracked across all of them every week.
How long does AEO take to show results?
Technical and schema fixes can change how engines read a site within weeks. Citations in AI answers typically build over two to three months as new content and third-party mentions are indexed. We report progress weekly from the first month.
How much does AEO cost?
Meta Empires offers three plans, Growth, Scale, and Dominate, scoped after a free AI visibility audit. Pricing depends on how competitive your category is and how much content and authority work it needs. Book a strategy call at info@metaempires.com for a quote.
Do I still need SEO if I invest in AEO?
Yes. AI engines retrieve from the open web, and most of them lean on pages that already rank and are already trusted. Every Meta Empires AEO plan includes technical SEO, content, and link building for that reason.