AI SEO services that help customers find your business.

Eric Strate provides AI SEO consulting for established businesses that want to improve how they are found, understood and considered across Google Search, Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT and other AI search experiences. The work combines buyer-question research, technical SEO, content improvements, competitive analysis and implementation within an agreed scope.

You work directly with me on the questions that can lead to a sale: which providers to consider, what a service costs, who it suits and why a customer should choose your business. I have worked in SEO since 2012 and bring that foundation to AI search.

Based in San Diego, I work with businesses across the United States. If your project is specifically about ChatGPT, see my ChatGPT SEO services.

Eric Strate’s AI Search Visibility Snapshot starts at $1,500. A Professional AI Search Visibility & Strategy Assessment starts at $5,500, a focused ChatGPT Search Optimization engagement starts at $5,500, and Managed SEO, AEO & AI SEO starts at $4,000 per month. These are Eric’s starting prices, with final scope and fees agreed before work begins.

Your budget depends on the decision you need to make, the size of your website, the markets you serve and who will implement the work. A focused diagnostic, a broad strategy assessment and an ongoing management program have different purposes.

The SEO, AEO and AI SEO pricing page is the reference for current engagement options. Multi-location, automotive and complex projects are scoped individually.

Choose a focused visibility snapshot when you need an initial view of the problem, a broader strategy assessment when you need competitive research and priorities for your team, a scoped optimization project when you need changes made, or managed search services when you need continuing implementation and measurement.

The two $5,500 starting points solve different problems: one supports a broader research and strategy decision, while the other focuses on a defined ChatGPT optimization scope. The proposal specifies the breadth of research, pages involved and implementation responsibilities.

The deliverables depend on the engagement: a documented visibility baseline, competitor and source findings, a prioritized plan, implementation requirements or completed changes when included, and a way to evaluate progress. The proposal identifies the questions, platforms, pages, responsibilities and reporting covered by your investment.

Use software when your team can interpret the observations and carry out the changes. Consider a consultant when you need experienced diagnosis, priorities and direct accountability. Consider an agency when you need a larger ongoing production team. Compare the actual scope, implementation capacity and evidence behind each proposal.

A dashboard can show that a company was mentioned in a test. Someone still needs to determine whether that question matters, whether the result is reliable and what action is justified. My consulting is suited to businesses that want direct senior involvement in those decisions.

Ask each provider to distinguish monitoring, strategic recommendations, content production, website changes and outside-source work. Similar service labels can conceal very different responsibilities.

Yes. Eric Strate can work alongside an existing SEO agency, marketing team or developer. The engagement can focus on AI search diagnosis and prioritization, with your team implementing the work, or include direct implementation where appropriate. Responsibilities and access are defined in the project scope.

You may already have useful SEO work underway. I review that context before recommending another workstream. We can identify the AI search questions your current program does not address and agree which team owns each change.

This is particularly useful when you need specialist direction while keeping your existing content, development or agency relationships.

Hands-on implementation can be included when your website platform, access and agreed scope permit it. Work may involve service pages, internal links, technical accessibility, business information and structured data. If your developer or website vendor must implement a change, I can provide the requirements and strategic oversight.

WordPress is one environment where I can work directly on agreed changes. For other platforms, we establish the practical boundaries before work begins. A diagnostic-only engagement does not silently become an implementation project.

The scope should make clear what will be changed, what requires your approval, and what is assigned to another team. For platform-specific detail, see ChatGPT SEO implementation for WordPress.

Yes. Technical accessibility, clear business information, useful commercial pages and supporting evidence can serve a shared search strategy. Testing and reporting should still distinguish Google Search, Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT and other selected AI platforms because their answers, sources and availability can differ.

AI SEO here means improving your business’s discoverability in AI-assisted search. It does not simply mean using AI to write SEO content. AEO, GEO and LLM optimization are related industry labels; the practical scope is the information and website work your business needs.

We select the platforms that matter for your customers and budget. An observation from one platform is not presented as a result across every platform.

I can review the SEO and content conditions that support eligibility for Google AI Overviews and AI Mode. Google says a supporting page must be indexed and eligible for a search snippet. Its established SEO practices still apply; no special AI markup guarantees inclusion. I improve the relevant inputs and assess what changes.

The work can include identifying indexing barriers, improving useful answers on commercial pages and making important information easier to discover through internal links. Google decides whether an AI answer appears and which sources it includes.

See Google’s guidance on AI features and websites. For ChatGPT discovery, OpenAI’s publisher guidance explains the role of OAI-SearchBot access.

AI SEO is the broader service context for coordinating traditional SEO with visibility across selected AI search experiences. Eric Strate’s ChatGPT SEO service focuses specifically on ChatGPT discovery, citations, recommendations and implementation. Choose the broader scope when several search platforms matter; choose the focused service when ChatGPT is the main business question.

This page helps you evaluate the broader engagement and how it fits your existing search program. The ChatGPT SEO services page explains that platform-specific work. If you first need a diagnostic, the ChatGPT Visibility Audit explains the assessment context.

Possible causes include unclear service or location information, inaccessible pages, weak coverage of the buyer’s question or stronger relevant evidence for a competitor. A single answer cannot establish the cause. I compare repeated observations, cited pages and your website before identifying changes worth making.

The useful starting point is a specific question, the businesses that appear and the context in which they appear. We then examine whether your company is a reasonable match for that decision and where the available evidence differs.

Sometimes the gap is on your own site. Sometimes the work involves accurate third-party information or a clearer offer. The diagnosis should determine the action.

Prioritize questions that help a suitable customer choose: who provides the service, what it costs, what is included, which option fits, who implements it, what evidence supports the provider and what happens next. Use sales conversations and observed search queries to refine the language, then test additional questions as hypotheses.

A person comparing providers may need several answers before contacting anyone. Your service, pricing and supporting pages should make those decisions easier. Each page needs a clear purpose, with links to the detail that belongs elsewhere.

I distinguish questions observed in your data from questions created for testing. Neither a tracked prompt nor a search impression proves that the person behind it was ready to buy.

Query fan-out means expanding a question into related searches. For a buying decision, useful supporting topics can include pricing, scope, alternatives, suitability, proof and implementation. I organize those topics into clear, supported answers and page relationships. The coverage is a publishing plan, not a claim to know an AI system’s private searches.

For example, a question about hiring an AI SEO consultant can lead to questions about budget, monthly fees, working with an existing agency and who makes website changes. This page addresses each decision in its own section.

Google describes query fan-out in its AI search guidance. Expanding relevant coverage does not mean repeating a keyword or creating a separate page for every wording variation.

AI SEO is more plausible as an investment when your customers research providers, your business has a valuable offer, and there is a specific discoverability problem to investigate. Evaluate the opportunity against customer value, existing demand, website readiness and implementation capacity. A visibility score alone does not establish a return.

A business with an established website, meaningful customer value and relevant competitors appearing in AI answers has a concrete question to investigate. A business with an unclear offer or a website that cannot convert visitors may need more fundamental work first.

I would rather identify that distinction before proposing a large engagement. The focused snapshot option can help establish the initial problem when a broader project is not yet justified.

Project timing is agreed after the scope, access and implementation dependencies are understood. The first work establishes the business priorities and current baseline. Implementation and measurement follow when included. Publishing a change and seeing a search or AI system reflect that change are separate events, so I do not promise a fixed inclusion date.

Your proposal should separate delivery milestones from performance expectations. It can identify when research is delivered, which changes depend on your team and when progress will be reviewed.

Repeated observations are more informative than judging a single answer immediately after a change. The review schedule should fit the project and the amount of evidence available.

A one-time engagement can answer a defined diagnostic or implementation question. Monthly management is more appropriate when you need continuing priorities, website improvements and measurement across a changing market. Eric Strate’s managed SEO, AEO and AI SEO starts at $4,000 per month; the scope and commercial terms are established in the proposal.

Continuing work should have a business purpose, such as new services, changing competition, content gaps or an ongoing implementation backlog. Monitoring alone and active management are different scopes.

Start with the work that addresses the current problem. See the current one-time and monthly engagement options.

Evaluate completed work, repeatable visibility observations, identifiable referral visits and qualified inquiries separately. A citation is a source reference; a recommendation presents a business as an option. Neither is a lead. Where available, connect inquiries and sales to analytics and the prospect’s own account of how they found you.

Reports should state the tested questions, platform, date and relevant context. Changes to that test set must be recorded so the comparison remains understandable.

Google includes AI-feature activity within Search Console’s Web reporting, so those totals alone do not isolate AI Overview performance. OpenAI documents ChatGPT referral tagging. Private conversations and every later buying action are not visible in those reports.

Eric Strate evaluates AI SEO projects for established service businesses, professional services, B2B companies, ecommerce businesses and automotive dealerships. The scope depends on how customers research and choose the offering. Automotive and multi-location projects need additional attention to inventory, location and website-platform constraints.

My automotive work has dedicated context on the dealership SEO and Toyota dealership SEO pages. Businesses with a specifically local requirement can review San Diego SEO services.

For any industry, we first establish what you sell, who can reasonably buy it, where you compete and what a valuable inquiry looks like. The plan should follow those facts.

Ask for the proposed questions and platforms, a current baseline, the evidence behind recommendations, exactly what work will be performed, who implements it, how progress is reported and what the fee excludes. Ask how the provider distinguishes experimental ideas from established platform guidance and actual business results.

A useful proposal makes the responsibilities clear enough that you can compare providers. Ask to see a sample deliverable and have the consultant explain a finding in ordinary business language.

When you contact me, I can help establish whether you need a focused diagnostic, strategic direction for your team or implementation. You should understand that choice before committing.

No. Eric Strate does not sell guaranteed organic placement in ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews or another AI system. Consulting fees pay for research, strategy, implementation and measurement within the agreed scope. Paid advertising, where available, is a separate engagement and does not constitute a guarantee of organic inclusion.

Be clear about what a price refers to. A software subscription, paid advertisement, diagnostic assessment and website optimization project are different purchases. My service is the agreed search work for your business.

The practical commitment is to the quality and scope of that work, with clear reporting on what was observed and what remains uncertain.

WACP is Eric Strate’s experimental approach to connecting concise answers with supporting content and a matching structured representation. This page uses WACP 5.0. It is not a required industry standard, a proven ranking factor or a guarantee of citations. Website accessibility, useful content and accurate business information remain the foundation.

The small citation markers beside these questions open their concise answers. Each answer has a stable link and is connected to its supporting section. Read the Web Answer Citation Protocol for the methodology.

I distinguish this publishing experiment from platform requirements. Your engagement is scoped around the business problem and evidence, rather than requiring you to buy a particular markup technique.

Start with your website, the service or product you most want to sell, your target customers and markets, and the visibility problem you want to solve. Include a competitor or an example question if you have one. Eric Strate will use that context to discuss the appropriate scope, starting engagement and implementation responsibilities.

You do not need to arrive with an AEO or GEO vocabulary. Describe the business situation: customers cannot find you, competitors appear instead, your current team needs direction, or you want someone to make and measure improvements.

Include your website and the business question you want answered. Final scope and fees are agreed before work begins.