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AI SEO Agency. Build visibility across search and AI.
Your buyers are asking questions across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude. Earned Media makes your brand the answer across every model and every market.
Register for an AI SEO consultation →The shift
AI is changing the search landscape.
Google rankings still matter. But the search journey is changing, fast.
The solve
AI SEO expands your search scope.
Your existing SEO foundations still matter. Artificial intelligence SEO (AI SEO) expands your brand's presence, making sure you show up in traditional search as well as the conversations your customers are having inside generative AI models, like ChatGPT and Claude.
That means more trust-building and less click-chasing. LLMs don't care if you rank for Google. AI visibility comes from making your brand, expertise, and evidence easy for AI models to find, understand, and trust when they answer your buyer's questions.
The goal isn't to rank everywhere. It's to be the brand those models trust when your customers are asking questions that influence their decisions. Earned Media builds that trust by building on traditional search with AEO, GEO, and AI SEO disciplines.
- Traditional SEO
- Helps brands rank in traditional organic search results, like Google.
- AEO
- Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO) helps content surface as direct answers in search.
- GEO
- Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO) helps brands earn visibility and citations in generative AI platforms.
- AI SEO
- Combines traditional SEO, AEO, and GEO to build visibility across search and AI.


The agency
Expert-led. AI-powered.
AI SEO isn't about replacing Google with ChatGPT. It's about making sure your brand is visible everywhere your customers search, across the entire search ecosystem. At Earned Media, our multidisciplinary, expert team builds the signals AI systems use to understand and recommend your brand.
- 01SEO specialistsProtect and build organic rankings, technical foundations, and search visibility.
- 02Content specialistsCreate unique, authoritative, human-written and edited content that answers the questions your customers are asking. See how we approach content built to get cited.
- 03Digital PR specialistsBuild credible third-party mentions and authority beyond your website.
- 04Link specialistsBuild the links and authority signals that help search engines and AI systems discover, and trust, your brand.
- 05AI search specialistsTrack how your brand appears across generative search and where you're being missed.
AI can uncover search opportunities, technical issues, and patterns at a scale no SEO team could match manually. But finding an opportunity isn't the same as knowing what to do with it. That's where AI SEO agency Earned Media is different.
Our in-house AI layer, EMintel, gives us the intelligence to see where your brand is visible, where competitors are winning, and where AI is getting your brand wrong. From there, our team of AI SEO specialists adds in the expert judgement that comes from decades of combined experience. We turn those insights into a strategy built around commercial priorities, from the questions worth owning to the authority, content, and search visibility needed to win them.
The process
Six AI SEO pillar services.
Truth Gap Audit
Our intelligence layer EMintel probes GPT-4o, Gemini 2.5, Claude, and Perplexity with your buyers' deal-breaker questions. We score mention rate, hallucination risk, citation frequency, and omission.
Entity and Brand Optimisation
AI needs to know you before it can recommend you. We develop consistent signals across Wikipedia, Wikidata, Crunchbase, G2, and industry directories so your brand is understood across the sources AI relies on.
GEO and Citation Engineering
We build the authority and third-party evidence that help your brand earn citations in generative AI answers.
AI Visibility Tracking
We monitor your presence across the AI models that matter to your customers and benchmark your visibility against competitors.
AI-Optimised (But Not AI-Generated) Content
We create unique, human-written and edited content designed for both people and AI retrieval, prioritising readability, expertise, originality, and commercial intent.
AI Overview Optimisation
Google's answer layer is its own search surface. We optimise specifically for AI Overview inclusion, while protecting organic visibility beneath it.
Spotlight · Truth Gap Audit
Probe the models. Score the gaps.
We probe foundation models with the deal-breaker questions your buyers actually ask. The output: a scored map of where your brand is mentioned, missed, hallucinated about, or omitted entirely.
- 0115 deal-breaker queriesCo-developed with your sales and product team. The questions that change a buying decision.
- 024 foundation modelsGPT-4o, Gemini 2.5, Claude, Perplexity. Probed daily, scored consistently.
- 03Hallucination flagsEvery false claim about your brand caught and prioritised for correction.
- 04Action planSequenced sprints to close the gap. Briefs, links, schema, and entity work, owned and shipped.
Sample output · Truth Gap probe
The results
AI SEO case study: Tummy Shield.
Tummy Shield's crash-tested pregnancy seatbelt was being framed by AI as an expensive premium option, with an imitation product recommended instead.
We changed the narrative. Our authoritative, source-backed content and third-party coverage made Tummy Shield the evidence-backed choice for ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Mode, and AI Overviews.

Frequently asked
GEO & AI Search Optimisation, explained.
The questions clients ask most before they engage. Tap any to expand.
What are AI SEO services?
AI SEO services build your brand's visibility and authority across traditional search and AI models. Earned Media's AI SEO services include AI visibility audits, AEO, GEO, AI Overview optimisation, developing AI-optimised content, and ongoing visibility tracking.
Brands that tap into AI SEO services often start showing up as the answers to questions their customers are asking.
What is the difference between AEO, GEO, and AI SEO?
Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO) is the process of optimising your content to appear as direct answers in search features.
Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO) is the process of making your website's information easily retrievable, clear, and consistent for large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity.
AI Search Engine Optimisation (AI SEO) brings both AEO and GEO together to build visibility across search engines and AI platforms. Strong visibility depends on good SEO, authoritative content, and trusted third-party signals.
Does AI SEO replace traditional SEO?
No. Traditional SEO remains a core part of AI SEO. AI platforms rely on many of the same foundations as traditional search engines, such as relevant content, technical accessibility, and authority. AI SEO extends your search strategy beyond the results page into the answers being recommended by AI models.
How does AI SEO help my brand appear in ChatGPT?
Earned Media's AI SEO service tests how ChatGPT currently mentions your brand against your top buyer questions, identifies gaps, and builds content that gives ChatGPT stronger evidence about your brand, its offering, and its credibility. We then use these insights to optimise your brand's wider digital footprint, because ChatGPT doesn't rely on your website alone.
How do different AI platforms choose their sources?
Each AI platform has unique retrieval behaviours and preferences:
- Perplexity, prioritises real-time web retrieval, heavily favouring extreme content freshness (where citation likelihood drops after 2 to 3 days) and authentic community discussions from sites like Reddit.
- Claude, favours comprehensive, in-depth content (often 3,000+ words) and places a high value on verifiable author credentials and industry databases.
- ChatGPT, relies heavily on its underlying training data, but also uses "query fan-out" to synthesise web results, often rewarding content that front-loads its key claims.
Does optimising for Perplexity also help with ChatGPT?
Partially. Because both platforms utilise web search retrieval, content that ranks well on traditional search engines will generally benefit on both. However, their underlying algorithms differ significantly, Perplexity uses a complex reranking model across dozens of citation factors, while ChatGPT relies more heavily on its training data and Bing ranking signals.
Why is an "LLM.txt" or "LLM Info" page important for GEO?
An "LLM Info" page acts as a raw, structured data feed (often a markdown file) hosted on your site that explicitly lists your company's mission, pricing, features, ideal customer profile (ICP), integrations, and case studies. By giving LLMs a single, centralised source of truth, they are more likely to cite your verified facts instead of relying on outdated or scattered fragments from across the web.
What is the fastest way to correct wrong information that LLMs repeat about a brand?
To fix hallucinations or outdated facts, you must trace the misinformation back to its source, usually an old blog post, a stale review, or mismatched website details. Update, delete, or redirect this old content and replace it with clean, structured facts. Once the underlying evidence across the web is consistent, LLMs will adapt to the new narrative.
Why do Reddit threads and customer reviews affect AI search optimisation?
LLMs do not just look at your website; they synthesise public perception by pulling from community platforms and review sites. Reviews give AI models a sense of your brand's recent performance and reliability. Reddit is heavily cited (accounting for nearly 47% of Perplexity's citations) because it offers unfiltered user experiences. If old Reddit threads contain complaints you have since fixed, LLMs might still cite them unless you transparently respond with factual updates and evidence.
How often should content be updated for Perplexity optimisation?
For Perplexity, content freshness is critical, content decay can begin within just 2 to 3 days of publication. We recommend auditing and updating your most important pages at least monthly by adding new data points or insights, and using highly visible "Last Updated" timestamps to signal freshness to the AI crawlers.
What role does YouTube play in AI platform visibility?
YouTube is a massive driver of AI visibility and is the most-cited domain in Google's AI Overviews. ChatGPT has also doubled its YouTube citations quarter-over-quarter. Because modern LLMs are multimodal, they actively pull videos into their answers, meaning that optimising your video titles, descriptions, and transcripts for target queries can significantly boost your visibility across multiple AI platforms.
What makes Earned Media different from other AI SEO agencies?
Earned Media uses an in-house intelligence layer, EMintel, to probe AI models and find opportunities to build authority, entity signals, third-party mentions, and digital PR and links.
We combine traditional SEO with AI SEO, AEO, and GEO, rather than treating AI visibility as a standalone tactic, optimising across the entire search ecosystem, not just one model.
Our team works with marketing managers through to business owners to build AI visibility that strengthens their brand's overall search presence and drives qualified traffic for business growth.
Earned Media operates with a forward-looking perspective. They conducted detailed research to stay ahead of the rapidly evolving search and LLM landscape, successfully advising us on how to optimise for AI Overviews and LLMs.
"Exceptional expertise in SEO — high-quality content that consistently adheres to our brand guidelines."
"Impressive ability to secure high-value links from authoritative websites, bolstering our domain equity."
"Incredibly reliable. They integrated seamlessly with my team and consistently delivered on time, to an extremely high standard."
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