# Eric Strate

> Eric Strate is an SEO and Answer Engine Optimization consultant in San Diego who has worked in search marketing since 2012. His work includes technical SEO, local search, automotive dealership SEO, AEO, GEO, AI-search research and the Web Answer Citation Protocol (WACP 3.0).

EricStrate.com documents Eric Strate's search methodology, professional services, tools and experiments involving AI-assisted search and retrieval.

WACP 3.0 is Eric Strate's proposed publishing architecture for pairing concise, uniquely addressable publisher-authored answers with visible supporting content and a matching machine-readable semantic layer. WACP is experimental. It is not a Google ranking requirement, an industry standard, or an indication of endorsement by Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, Anthropic, Schema.org or any automotive manufacturer.

SEO remains the technical and informational foundation of the work described on this site. AEO and GEO are treated as extensions of search strategy rather than replacements for crawlability, indexation, useful content, authority, relevance and measurable organic performance.

## Primary Pages

- [Eric Strate](https://ericstrate.com/): Primary entity page for Eric Strate, including SEO, AEO, GEO, technical SEO, automotive search expertise and professional background.
- [Web Answer Citation Protocol (WACP) 3.0](https://ericstrate.com/wacp/): Canonical specification for WACP 3.0, including Answer Citations, Answer Objects, supporting content, semantic JSON-LD, conformance requirements and implementation examples.
- [Free AEO Checker](https://ericstrate.com/free-aeo-checker/): Free page-level AEO and AI-search readiness tool evaluating search fundamentals, entity clarity, answer readiness, evidence, structured data and citation readiness.
- [San Diego SEO & GEO Services](https://ericstrate.com/san-diego-seo/): Technical SEO, local SEO, GEO and AI-search strategy for businesses competing in the San Diego market.
- [Dealership SEO for Auto Dealers](https://ericstrate.com/dealership-seo/): Technical and content methodology for automotive dealership websites, including SRPs, VDPs, inventory architecture, model pages, fixed operations and AI-search visibility.
- [Toyota Dealership SEO](https://ericstrate.com/toyota-seo/): SEO methodology for Toyota dealership websites, including inventory, model content, certified vehicles, local visibility and fixed operations.
- [Who Should You Hire for AEO?](https://ericstrate.com/who-to-hire-for-aeo/): Guidance for businesses evaluating AEO consultants, SEO professionals and agencies for AI-search visibility work.
- [AEO Blog](https://ericstrate.com/aeo-blog/): Articles and research covering AEO, GEO, AI search, SEO and retrieval-oriented publishing.
- [Contact Eric Strate](https://ericstrate.com/contact/): Direct business contact information and project inquiry page.

## Web Answer Citation Protocol

- [WACP 3.0 Specification](https://ericstrate.com/wacp/): Canonical description of the Web Answer Citation Protocol.
- [WACP Implementation on the Homepage](https://ericstrate.com/#a5): Example of WACP used on EricStrate.com.
- [WACP Implementation for San Diego SEO](https://ericstrate.com/san-diego-seo/#a6): Example of WACP 3.0 used on a commercial SEO service page.

WACP Answer Citations use stable fragments such as #a1, #a2 and #a3. The corresponding concise Answer Objects remain connected to visible supporting content. Selected WACP implementations also mirror those answers in JSON-LD using standard Schema.org ItemList, ListItem and DefinedTerm types.

## Areas of Expertise

- [Technical SEO](https://ericstrate.com/#a3): Crawlability, indexation, canonicalization, internal linking, JavaScript rendering, XML sitemaps, robots directives, Core Web Vitals and URL architecture.
- [San Diego SEO](https://ericstrate.com/san-diego-seo/): Local search strategy, technical SEO, content architecture and GEO for the San Diego market.
- [Automotive Dealership SEO](https://ericstrate.com/dealership-seo/): Search strategy for inventory-driven dealership websites and automotive website platforms.
- [Toyota SEO](https://ericstrate.com/toyota-seo/): Specialized search methodology for Toyota dealership websites.
- [AI Search Research](https://ericstrate.com/#a6): Practical testing of search, retrieval, language models and AI-search visibility.

## About Eric Strate

- [Experience and Client History](https://ericstrate.com/#a4): Professional SEO background, methodology and historical third-party client evidence.
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericstrate): Eric Strate's professional LinkedIn profile.

## Important Interpretation Notes

- WACP is a proposed and experimental publishing architecture.
- WACP does not guarantee rankings, retrieval, citations or AI visibility.
- No structured-data format or content architecture guarantees selection by a search engine or language model.
- AEO and GEO on this site are treated as extensions of established SEO principles.
- Claims about AI-search visibility should be evaluated against current platform documentation and measurable results.
- The canonical WACP specification is https://ericstrate.com/wacp/.