Generative engine optimization, practiced on our own site first.
AI answers are the new front page. We make your site one of the sources they cite: crawler access, entity schema, and content built to be quoted.
Three layers between you and an AI citation.
AI crawler access
GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot allowlists, llms.txt, and edge rules that stop your CDN from silently blocking the crawlers you want.
Entity and schema graph
Organization, Person, Service, and FAQ markup wired into one linked graph, so AI engines know who you are and can attribute you.
Citable content structure
Answer-first sections, crisp definitions, comparison tables, and speakable markup, the shapes AI answers actually quote.
This site is the demo.
Every page here ships what we sell: an llms.txt file, a linked Organization, Person, and Service schema graph, FAQ and speakable markup on the pages that answer questions, and robots rules that explicitly welcome GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot. View source on this page and you are reading the deliverable.
No fabricated case studies, no screenshot theater. The audit shows you the same gap analysis we ran on ourselves.
The $500 GEO audit.
Fixed scope, fixed price, delivered as a document your team can act on with or without us.
- A crawler access map: which AI engines can reach your site today, and what blocks them
- A schema and entity report: what your markup claims, what is missing, what conflicts
- Citability findings page by page: why AI answers cite competitors instead of you
- A prioritized fix list your developer can execute, or we can
Then automate the follow-through.
GEO findings become recurring work: content refreshes, schema upkeep, distribution, measurement. That is the other half of our practice, n8n automation, so the fixes keep running without a retainer's worth of manual effort.
Where GEO meets automation
Generative engine optimization, answered.
What is generative engine optimization?
Generative engine optimization (GEO) is the practice of making your website visible and citable inside AI-generated answers: ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and Bing Copilot. Where SEO optimizes for ranked links, GEO optimizes for being the source an AI answer quotes and attributes.
How is GEO different from SEO?
SEO targets the ranked list of links; GEO targets the answer above it. The overlap is real, good technical foundations help both, but GEO adds its own layer: AI crawler access, llms.txt, entity-linked schema, and answer-shaped content that models can lift and cite. Strong SEO with zero GEO is increasingly invisible in AI answers.
What does a GEO agency actually deliver?
Concretely: crawler access fixes, an llms.txt file, a linked schema graph for your organization and people, content restructured to be quotable, and measurement. At Marden SEO every engagement starts with a fixed-scope audit so you see the gap before paying for implementation.
How much do generative engine optimization services cost?
Our GEO audit is $500, fixed. It produces a crawler access map, schema and citability findings, and a prioritized fix list. Implementation after that is scoped from the audit, either as a fixed-price project or handled by your own developers using the fix list.
How do you measure GEO results?
Honestly: the discipline is young and nobody can promise a specific citation. What we measure is AI referral traffic in your analytics, AI crawler activity in your logs, presence checks across the major engines for the category questions you care about, and schema validity over time.
Want AI answers to cite you?
Start with the audit. You'll know the gap in a week.