How to check whether AI assistants mention your business
The platform reports, the referral data and a repeatable prompt check, with what each can and cannot tell you.
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AI visibility: make your priority pages quotable, not just crawlable
This service improves the content and evidence on agreed pages. Crawlability and indexing problems are identified during scoping; technical investigation and repairs are quoted separately.
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- $1,500–$3,000 USD per scoped projectAgreed priority pages, implementation and verification.
- $400 USD per siteOr start with the fixed AI visibility and indexing check under technical SEO.
- No placement promiseEligibility and clearer content are not proof of citations.
When is AI search work worth doing?
This service fits a marketing lead with a real offer, useful first-hand material and existing pages that do not communicate those specifics clearly. It is not a substitute for demand or a working website. Start with the buying questions your team can answer accurately, then choose the smallest set of pages that owns them.
- Your pages describe capabilities but omit scope, process, price or concrete examples.
- Several URLs compete to explain the same service or answer the same buying question.
- Your business or product names are inconsistent across important pages.
- You want implementation grounded in platform documentation, with uncertainty stated plainly.
What changes on the actual pages?
The project delivers answer structure, entity clarity, first-hand evidence, useful internal links and structured data that matches visible content on agreed pages. Scoping identifies crawlability and indexing problems; technical investigation and repairs require a separate quote. The quote defines the pages and amount of original writing.
- The buying question each agreed page must answer, and the first-hand material needed to answer it.
- Review of first-hand evidence, attribution, names and facts needed for the selected pages.
- Direct-answer openings, descriptive headings and self-contained passages with explicit conditions.
- Visible scope, deliverables, prices and examples where relevant to the page’s purpose.
- Descriptive links between related services and the evidence that supports them.
- Structured data checked against the visible page, so the markup never advertises an answer the buyer cannot find.
- An implementation record and a measurement plan that separates technical checks from actual search outcomes.
What does AI search optimization cost?
| Work | Published rate | What the rate covers | What moves the price |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI search optimization implementation | $1,500–$3,000 USD per scoped project Schedule agreed after the priority pages and source evidence are reviewed. | Content and evidence on agreed pages: answer structure, entity clarity, first-hand evidence and visible-content schema, with implementation and verification notes. Crawlability and indexing problems are identified during scoping; technical investigation and repairs are quoted separately. | Page count, content readiness and platform constraints. Bulk content production, tool subscriptions and guaranteed citations are excluded. |
The written quote confirms the scope, schedule, payment milestones, revisions, cancellation and handover terms. Ongoing work is optional and separately scoped.
What first-hand implementation supports this?
Wilde Digital’s own content system is the working example: shared service facts and prices, evidence labels on project studies, visible answers matched to FAQ markup and one owner for each service intent. It shows the content and publishing decisions you are buying. AI-citation gains are a separate measurement question, answered with data rather than assertion.
Send the page and the question it should answer
Include the domain, the buying question and the first-hand material available to support the answer. Identify the existing page, who approves its claims and whether prices can be published. That is enough to begin scoping priority-page work without commissioning another content batch or promising an AI citation.
Scope boundaries and exclusions
Not a paid-placement service, mass article program or a promise to influence a model’s training data. If crawl access, canonicals or migrations are the main problem, start with technical SEO. Storefront implementation belongs under Shopify development; AI search content does not replace a functional product page or buying path.
- Technical investigation and repairs for crawlability or indexing problems; quoted separately under technical SEO.
- Guaranteed AI citations, recommendation positions, rankings or traffic.
- Bulk article production, location variants or fabricated comparison pages.
- Invented clients, testimonials, statistics, credentials or commercial outcomes.
- Paid placements and link-buying schemes.
- Monitoring subscriptions and changes to accounts or crawler policy without approval.
The quote identifies any separately available work and third-party costs.
Delivery and handover
- Choose the question and existing owner. Identify what a buyer wants to know and which current page should answer it. If several pages compete for the same job, decide whether to consolidate instead of adding another route with a slightly different label.
- Collect the material that only this business can provide. Approved prices, process decisions, observed constraints, implementation screenshots and evidence records give the page substance. Missing facts are requested or omitted honestly, not supplied by a plausible-sounding generated claim.
- Write one complete page. Open each major section with the answer, then add the relevant reasoning and limits. Use entity names consistently. Keep a paragraph understandable when read outside its surrounding section, without repeating the entire sales pitch in every passage.
- Identify technical dependencies during scoping. Record crawlability or indexing problems that need investigation before content work can proceed. Technical investigation, repairs and account-level crawler changes are quoted separately under technical SEO.
- Verify and measure honestly. Check the actual page, internal links and schema. After authorized publication, observe available search and inquiry data. A successful fetch or schema check is evidence of implementation, not evidence that an answer engine selected the page.
Handover includes the agreed source or access, documentation and verification notes. The quote sets any optional support terms.
Search Console now has a dedicated generative AI performance report for AI Overviews and AI Mode, but it reports impressions only — not AI-only clicks, leads or revenue. Keep that limit in the report. For a broader explanation of the terms and their overlap, read the SEO, AEO and GEO guide. Use observed inquiries alongside search data, not as proof that every inquiry came from AI.
The content system behind this site
The Wilde Digital rebuild uses one catalogue for six services, their destinations and priced scopes. The home page, pricing page and inquiry choices draw on those facts. A buyer can follow a service through its details, USD price and contact choice without encountering a second currency or an unrelated legacy offer.
Project examples carry the evidence they have. Kakebo Shop is a publicly attributed Shopify implementation, live in production. Opportunity Scanner is an internal engine. The rescue example is a read-only inspection rather than a completed repair. Those distinctions keep the published material attributable and specific.
The publishing helpers generate FAQ markup from the same questions and answers shown to readers. The output audit then checks visible content against the schema. That is a concrete content-integrity measure: the machine-readable version must not advertise an answer the buyer cannot find. It is not a promise that FAQ markup earns a special result.
The website-cost guide supplies another own-site example. It explains which decisions change a quote and presents the studio’s approved rates as its own prices, not an industry average. A buyer can use its scope questions when comparing other suppliers. That gives the guide a purpose independent of an attempt to win a search impression.
What is inspectable here is the implementation. Attribution after publication needs its own evidence, and that boundary is part of the service: a useful report separates the content that changed from the outcome a supplier cannot control.
Questions people actually ask
- Is this different from technical SEO?
This service improves the content and evidence on agreed pages. Crawlability and indexing problems are identified during scoping; technical investigation and repairs are quoted separately under technical SEO.
- Do I need special AI schema or an llms.txt file?
Google documents no additional technical requirements for its AI search features. Structured data should describe visible content. A machine-readable index can be useful documentation, but this service does not sell it as a placement switch or use its presence as evidence that an assistant will cite the site.
- Can you guarantee that ChatGPT will recommend us?
No. Search access and good content do not control which sources a system selects for a particular question. Wilde Digital commits to the agreed page changes, evidence review and verification. A citation observed in a sample is reported as that observation, not as stable coverage across all users or questions.
- Do we need to publish more pages?
Not automatically. Start by checking whether an existing page already owns the intent. If it does, improve it rather than create a competing variant. A new page needs a distinct buyer purpose and enough original evidence to be useful. Producing more URLs is not the deliverable purchased here.
- How will we know whether the work helped?
Record what changed and the available baseline before publication. Review search clicks, visible referral data and qualified inquiries afterward, with other business changes noted. Google’s generative AI performance report shows impressions from its AI features but no AI-only click, lead or revenue totals, so a change in Web search totals is not clean attribution to AI optimization. Where a figure was never measured, the report says which and why.