The audit costs $1,200 flat and takes two weeks; ongoing optimization runs from $950 a month. The goal is visibility in both places people search now: classic Google, and the AI engines — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews — that answer questions by citing a handful of sources. Being one of those sources is a job. This is that job.
Why vibe-coded sites need this
AI builds beautiful pages that are invisible: missing titles, no schema, no sitemap, robots files that block crawlers, five pages competing for the same phrase. We keep a running list of these failures in our public SEO checklist — the audit is that checklist, run deep on your site, with every finding priced by effort so you can fix in order of impact.
What the $1,200 audit covers
- Technical: crawlability, indexation, Core Web Vitals, mobile rendering, canonical and redirect hygiene, sitemap and robots sanity.
- Content: which pages target which queries, what is thin, what cannibalizes what, and the specific pages your competitors have that you do not.
- Schema: Organization, Service, FAQ, Product where relevant — the structured data both Google and AI engines lean on.
- AI-search readiness (GEO): answer-first structure, quotable claims, entity consistency across the web, llms.txt, and whether AI crawlers can read you at all.
- The deliverable: a prioritized fix list in plain English — what, why, effort, expected impact. You can hand it to any developer, including you. No hostage report.
What ongoing looks like (from $950/mo)
Two tracks, monthly: fixes and content. We work down the audit list, publish or upgrade one to two pieces of genuinely useful content a month, keep schema and internal links tight, and track two scoreboards — Google positions and AI citations. Reporting is one page, in English, with the “so what” written out. Three-month minimum, because search does not move faster than that, then month to month.
What we will not do
Buy links, spin up 400 AI listicles, promise position one, or bill you for “monitoring” with no work attached. Search rewards sites that deserve to win, and the whole point of a clean build is that it can.
Common questions
How is AI-search optimization different from SEO?
Mostly it is SEO with sharper writing discipline: direct answers up top, claims with numbers and sources, consistent facts about your business everywhere, and structure engines can quote verbatim. We wrote up the tactics in the AI-citation guide. The overlap with good classic SEO is large; the differences are exactly what most sites skip.
When do results show?
Technical fixes often move things in 2-6 weeks. Content and authority are a 3-6 month curve. Anyone quoting days is selling something.
Can I just buy the audit and fix it myself?
Yes, and plenty do — the fix list is written for exactly that. If you get stuck on the technical items, hourly help or a care plan picks up the rest.
Do you do local SEO?
Yes — Google Business Profile, local schema, city-level landing pages where they are honest. If you are a Queens plumber, we want the map pack, not just the blog rankings.
What are AI search optimization services, exactly?
The work that makes AI engines cite you — generative engine optimization (GEO), if you like the jargon. In practice: answer-first content, consistent entity facts across the web, schema, and freshness, layered on top of classic SEO rather than instead of it. The $1,200 audit shows where your site stands on both.