AI search optimization · AEO
Westhampton Beach, New York
Ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini or Google’s AI Overviews who to call, and the answer names a few businesses and skips the rest. All of our SEO is AEO now. We make your business the one AI engines can find, verify and cite, for customers across Long Island and the Hamptons.
Why it matters
Google users who saw an AI summary clicked a regular search result on 8% of visits, versus 15% when there was no summary.Pew Research Center, July 2025 · browsing data from 900 U.S. adults
Fewer clicks means the answer itself is doing the choosing. If your business isn’t named in it, the customer may never reach your website at all.
01 /How it works
Run monthly, not once. AI answers shift, so the work doesn’t stop at launch.
The same name, address, phone, services and description on your site, Google profile, Bing Places, Apple Business Connect and socials. AI engines piece you together from many sources, and conflicting details make you easy to skip. In September 2026, Perplexity described our own business as a WordPress plugin maker. This is the fix.
Pages that answer the questions your customers actually ask, in the first sentence, with real prices, towns and hours. Then LocalBusiness, Service and FAQ schema that matches the visible text. Google says no special AI markup is required, so we treat schema as hygiene, not a trick.
Your Google Business Profile, Bing Places, and the directories and local “best of” lists AI answers cite for your category. We also check that your site lets in crawlers like OAI-SearchBot, which OpenAI uses to show websites in ChatGPT search.
A fixed set of prompts your customers would type, run every month across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and AI Overviews. We log whether you’re named, whether you’re linked, and which sources get cited instead of you.
02 /What’s included
Part of every SEO engagement we run. Also available on its own.
03 /Pricing
We don’t charge extra to make SEO work in AI answers. It’s how we do SEO.
| Engagement | Typical market range (2026) | East End Web |
|---|---|---|
| AEO as part of ongoing SEO | Usually bundled with SEO; local SEO runs $500–$2,500 a month for most local businesses | Included in our SEO work, quoted after a free audit |
| Standalone AEO audit | $500–$2,500 | Quoted per project |
| Standalone ongoing AEO | $500–$2,500 a month | Quoted per project |
Market ranges are typical 2026 pricing for small and local businesses. The bigger question to ask any agency is what it measures: if nobody is checking what the AI engines actually say about you, nobody can tell you whether it’s working.
04 /Common questions
Still have one we haven’t answered? Just ask.
AEO, or answer engine optimization, is the work of getting your business named and cited in AI-generated answers from tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google’s AI Overviews. It covers how consistently your business is described across the web, how clearly your pages answer real questions, and whether the sources AI engines rely on mention you.
Less than the name suggests. Google says there are no extra requirements or special markup needed to appear in AI Overviews, so AEO is built on ordinary SEO: crawlable pages, accurate listings and useful content. The difference is the goal. SEO aims for a ranking; AEO aims to be the business the answer names, which puts more weight on consistent facts, direct answers and mentions on other sites.
Most of the setup, like correcting listings, adding schema and rewriting key pages, happens in the first month or two. AI engines then pick up changes on their own schedules, so plan on a few months before judging results. We run the same prompts every month so you can see the trend instead of guessing.
No, and nobody honestly can. AI answers change from person to person and day to day, and no agency controls what ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini or Google says. What we can do is remove the reasons an engine would skip you, and show you every month whether you are being named.
Yes. We’re based in Westhampton Beach and focus on Long Island and the Hamptons, but AI search isn’t tied to a map. We also work with businesses elsewhere in the US.
Get named
Start with a short call. We’ll talk through where you show up today and what we’d fix first. No pressure, no jargon.