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SEO + AEO

AI SEO Services
Found on Google, Cited by AI

Our AI SEO services combine traditional search optimization with answer engine optimization, so your business ranks on Google and gets cited when customers ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google AI Overviews who to hire. One package, $1,250/mo, built by a Minnesota team that publishes its methods.

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The Search Landscape Shifted

AI Answers Now Intercept Your Customers Before They Reach You

A few years ago, a customer searched Google, scanned ten links, and clicked. Today, millions of those searches end inside an AI answer. ChatGPT recommends a shortlist of businesses. Perplexity cites its sources inline. Google AI Overviews answers the question at the top of the page, before a single traditional result appears.

If your business is not part of those answers, you are invisible in the fastest-growing slice of search, no matter how well you used to rank. And the businesses that show up early are earning a durable advantage, because AI systems keep citing the sources they already trust.

The good news: this is winnable, and most of your competitors have not started. We explain the full playbook in our guide to answer engine optimization.

Where customers ask questions now

  • ChatGPT: "Who is the best family lawyer near Minneapolis?"
  • Perplexity: cited answers with a handful of sources, not ten links
  • Google AI Overviews: the answer sits above every organic result
  • Voice assistants and AI search built into phones and browsers

What Our AI SEO Services Include

Traditional SEO and AEO are one discipline now. We deliver both together.

Traditional SEO

Technical audits, on-page optimization, keyword strategy, and site health. The fundamentals still decide who Google trusts, and they feed everything else.

Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)

Our answer engine optimization services structure your content so ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews cite your business when customers ask questions.

Structured Data & Entity Work

Schema markup, entity consistency, and knowledge graph signals so search engines and AI models understand exactly who you are, what you do, and where you do it.

AI Visibility Monitoring

We track how AI assistants describe and recommend your business across the questions your customers actually ask, and we report on it monthly.

Content That Earns Citations

Question-driven pages and articles written to be the source AI answers quote, not filler blog posts written for word count.

The SEO + AEO Package

One flat monthly price, everything included, full details on our pricing page

SEO + AEO

Complete search and AI visibility, done for you

$1,250/mo
  • Full technical SEO audit and ongoing on-page optimization
  • Answer engine optimization for ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews
  • Schema markup, structured data, and entity consistency work
  • Monthly AI visibility monitoring and plain-English reporting
  • Content strategy and question-driven pages that earn citations
  • Local SEO: Google Business Profile, citations, and Minnesota-focused targeting
  • Month-to-month after the first 90 days, no long contracts
Who This Is For

Built for Businesses That Live on Local Trust

Small Businesses

You compete against bigger budgets. Showing up in AI answers and local results is how a lean business punches above its weight.

Law Firms

Prospects now ask ChatGPT which attorney to call. We make sure your firm is the answer, alongside our AI intake work for practices.

AI for law firms

Medical Practices

Patients research symptoms and providers through AI assistants. Structured, accurate visibility is now part of patient acquisition.

AI for medical practices

Minnesota Businesses

We are a local seo expert team based right here in Minnesota. We know the Twin Cities market and optimize for the searches your neighbors run.

Minnesota AI automation

Our Method: Engineers Doing SEO, Not Marketers Guessing at Tech

PixelForge Labs is a software engineering firm first. That changes how SEO gets done.

We fix the site, not just the copy

Most agencies file tickets for technical issues and wait. Our engineers implement schema, performance fixes, and structured data directly, because we build software for a living, including AI systems for clients like Patent Profiler and Metalsa.

We test against real AI systems

We work with these AI models daily in our development practice, so we know how they retrieve, rank, and cite sources. Our AEO recommendations come from testing, not from repeating blog posts.

We report what a business owner cares about

Rankings, AI citations, traffic, and leads, in plain English every month. You always know what we did, what moved, and what is next.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the difference between SEO and AEO?

SEO (search engine optimization) earns you rankings in traditional search results, the list of blue links on Google. AEO (answer engine optimization) earns you citations inside AI-generated answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews, where there is often one answer instead of ten links. They share foundations, but AEO adds structured data, entity work, and question-formatted content that AI systems can quote directly. Our SEO and AEO services cover both, because your customers now use both.

How do you measure AI visibility?

We build a list of the real questions your customers ask, then regularly test how ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews answer them: whether your business is mentioned, how it is described, and who gets cited instead. Combined with traditional rank tracking, traffic, and lead data, you get a monthly report showing exactly where you appear and where the gaps are.

How long until we see results?

Honestly: three to six months for meaningful movement. Technical fixes and structured data can show effects within weeks, and AI citations sometimes appear faster than traditional rankings, but search visibility compounds over months, not days. Anyone promising page one in 30 days is guessing or gaming metrics that do not bring you customers.

What are the contract terms?

The SEO + AEO package is $1,250/mo with an initial 90-day commitment, because that is the minimum window for the work to show real effects. After 90 days it is month-to-month. If we are not earning our fee, you can leave, and you keep everything we built: the content, the markup, the improvements to your site.

Do you guarantee rankings?

No, and you should be suspicious of anyone who does. Google and the AI platforms control their own results, and no agency can promise a specific position on a system it does not own. Guarantee-sellers either target meaningless keywords nobody searches or walk the promise back in fine print. What we do guarantee is the work: a defined scope delivered every month, transparent reporting, and month-to-month terms so our results, not a contract, keep you here.

Find Out How AI Describes Your Business Today

We will audit your current search and AI visibility for free and show you exactly where customers are finding your competitors instead of you.

Or call us directly at (952) 234-8836