Answer engine optimization for small businesses in Greenville, SC
Get named in the answer, not summarized around it. Perfect for visibility when buyers ask a chatbot before they ever open a search results page.
When somebody asks an AI who to call, one business gets named and everybody else gets averaged into a paragraph. This decides which one you are. It's mostly just SEO with the volume turned up, and I'll tell you which parts are real.
Who this is actually for
Greenville contractors, home services, restaurants and practices whose buyers research first. If your category has a question people ask a chatbot, that question already has an answer — and somebody is being named in it.
The part nobody says out loud
This is SEO with a new name on it.
Every agency selling AEO, including this one, works from the same public docs and its own testing. Nobody has a line into OpenAI. The agencies charging $7,500 a month don't know more than you do.
What changed is emphasis: structure, clarity, and schema matter more than they used to. Real shift, worth work, not a new religion.
I don't live in Greenville. For local SEO that would matter. For this it doesn't — whether a model can parse your cost page is the same question in either city.
Proof, names removed
Three clients you can't name, ranked inside the models.
Industry only — most of this ran under partner agencies' names. Ask me on a call and I'll walk the dashboards.
#3 in LLMs for the category's main search term
Built topical authority around cost — the question every buyer types and every competitor answers vaguely — then optimized it for LLM answers as well as classic organic. 3,801 keywords, the most in the account's history.
#1 on Gemini for its category term, after a core update gutted it
Technical health first, then existing content rewritten and new content written specifically for LLM extraction. Highest keyword and SERP feature count since 2024.
Now appears inside Google's AI answers for its services
A sitemap holding 18 pages meant most of the service area was invisible. Rebuilt indexing, expanded local coverage city by city, published the service pages that were missing. The curve hasn't flattened yet.
What we actually do
Five things, ranked by how much I believe in them.
Ranked by what actually moves, not by how it demos in a pitch.
One cost guide, written to answer the question directly, generated 18% of all site clicks and now ranks for 1,065 SERP features. The top six pages that brand gets cited for in LLMs are all pages I wrote or rewrote.
Structured data rebuilt sitewide and held at a clean schema grade while the category lost 11–23% of its clicks. That client lost 8%, with click-through rate up 51% year over year.
Want to try it yourself first? How to get cited by ChatGPT and what schema markup actually is are both free and tell you the same things I'd do.
Notice what's missing: no AI visibility score, no "we have relationships with the models," no promise you'll show up in ChatGPT by month three. Nobody can promise that. What I can promise is the work above, on a cadence, documented so you can check it.
Pricing
Published. On the pricing page, not buried here.
AEO runs on top of a healthy site, so most buy it alongside technical or local work. All of it is listed line by line.
Greenville is already finding us. That showed up in Search Console before this page existed. Whoever gets named in the AI answer for your category is getting named right now, while you read this.
Straight answers
Questions before you buy AEO from anybody
Do we need to block AI crawlers?
Almost certainly not — blocking them removes you from the answers entirely. Narrow exceptions exist for paywalled content. For a home services company, no.
Will this fix my traffic drop?
Sometimes. Often it's a core update or seasonality wearing an AI costume. That's the first thing I'd check before selling you this.
Do AI citations send real traffic, or just awareness?
Some, less than clicks used to. Worth doing anyway — being the named source shapes the shortlist even when nobody clicks — but the honest number is smaller than the pitch decks suggest.
Is llms.txt worth it?
It's cheap and takes about an hour. Nobody has proven it moves anything yet. We build it and stay skeptical. Ours is here if you want to see what one looks like.
Why is a Louisville company running a Greenville page?
Because the search data said people here were already finding us. If you want somebody who can drive to your office, I'm the wrong call.
Where this gets done
The work is remote. The state on your sign has never changed what gets done or what it costs. See if marketing is available in your state →
Tap a wall. Break it open.
The words you'll hear on a call with us, spray-painted on a wall. Tap one.
All 116 terms, in plain English: WTF is SEO?
Shopping AI search agencies?
Most of them sell eleven separate services for what is, underneath, one job. Here is every one of those services translated into plain English so you can tell which parts you are actually buying. Then ask whoever you are talking to which of the eleven they would do first, and why.
Want this done on your site?
Tell me what's going on. You'll get a straight answer, including if that answer is that you don't need me.