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AI SEO services: visibility where the answers happen.

AI SEO, also called AI search optimization, AEO or GEO, helps your site get read, trusted and cited by Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity. NativeCode is an Atlanta-based AI SEO agency that runs this work for brands nationwide, with entity work, structured data and answer-ready content.

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See how AI answers describe your brand

  • The technical and content issues costing you traffic
  • Every fix ranked by revenue impact
  • Where AI answers name competitors instead of you

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Brands our team has worked with

Constant ContactⓘCox EnterprisesMondelēz InternationalSamsungKohl’sHanesbrandsHauteFlairⓘ

What’s included

How does AI search optimization work?

AI search optimization works as a system, not a trick on top of SEO. It builds entity clarity, machine-readable trust and quotable content once, and that work compounds across every engine.

01

AI visibility audit

How answer engines describe your brand today, where you are cited, and where competitors are cited instead.

02

Entity optimization

We define and reinforce the entities behind your brand, products and topics, so language models know who you are and when to cite you.

03

Structured data systems

JSON-LD across every template: Organization, Service, Product, FAQ and Breadcrumb graphs.

04

Answer-ready formats

Answer blocks, question-led structure and clean formatting that make your pages the easiest source to quote.

05

Authority programs

Earned coverage and references from the sources answer engines already trust.

06

Citation tracking

Ongoing tracking of mentions and citations across AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity.

How we run it

How does an AI search program run?

An AI search program runs in three phases: audit, build, then compound. We measure how engines describe you today, fix the gaps, then track citations as the work builds.

AI search is part of our SEO services and draws on technical SEO and content marketing.

01

Audit

Map how engines interpret your brand, entities and content today.

02

Structure

Build the entity model and schema graph across the site.

03

Format

Rework priority pages into answer-ready formats engines can quote.

04

Track

Monthly citation tracking, schema validation and the next round of priorities.

Engines

Google

AI Overviews

ChatGPT

Perplexity

Schema.org

JSON-LD

Proof

Trusted where search drives revenue.

Current client

Constant Contact

We run an ongoing SEO, AEO and GEO program with Constant Contact's growth marketing and SEO teams.

Read the Constant Contact case study →

Online retailer with a large catalog

Search architecture built so a large catalog of category and product pages can be found, crawled and ranked.

Read the HauteFlair case study →

Product page CRO

Product page changes for an online retailer that raised its conversion rate.

Read the product page CRO case study →

Ecommerce operations

Supplier EDI connections for inventory and order routing, built for three ecommerce brands.

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NativeCode Labs

Six calculators and tools we build and run, using the same methods we use for clients.

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Led by our founder, with 15+ years in technical SEO, AEO and GEO.

Questions

AI search optimization questions

What is Answer Engine Optimization?

AEO structures your site and content so AI answer engines like Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity can read, trust and cite it. It covers entity optimization, structured data and answer-formatted content. The goal is to be the source an AI answer quotes, not only a link in a list of results.

How is AEO different from SEO?

SEO earns rankings in result lists. AEO earns citations inside answers. They share foundations like crawlability, structure and authority, but AEO adds entity clarity, machine-readable trust and quotable formatting. Most sites need both, and we run them as one program.

Can you prove this works?

Yes. Our method holds a verified unbranded AI Overview citation on a DA 34 domain, earned with architecture and content engineering rather than brand weight or link spend. Request the free AI search audit on this page to see how engines read your own site today.

Do you work alongside existing SEO teams?

Yes. We add AEO systems to existing SEO programs and work with in-house, product and engineering teams without disrupting what already ranks. Most engagements start with an audit your team can act on, followed by schema, entity and content work we ship together.

How do you measure AI visibility?

We track citations across Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity for a fixed set of prompts, plus entity and schema validation. Those sit alongside rankings, demand captured and revenue, so AI visibility is reported on the same terms as the rest of search.

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