AI SEO Agency · ChatGPT, Perplexity & Google AI
AI SEO Agency for Small Businesses and Vacation Rental Owners
More of your customers skip the list of links now. They ask ChatGPT, Perplexity or Google’s AI Overview, and they get back a short list of businesses by name. Creative Edge Media Group is an AI SEO agency that works on one thing: getting your business onto that short list.
I’m Damien. I’ve spent ten years building websites, running SEO and managing ads for small businesses. When you work with me, you talk to the person doing the work.
What AI SEO actually is
What Is AI SEO?
Regular SEO gets your pages ranked in Google. AI SEO gets your business understood, trusted and named when an AI tool writes an answer.
These tools don’t rank ten blue links. They read across the web, decide which businesses look credible and relevant, and recommend a few. If your information is thin, inconsistent or hard for them to read, you’re left out of the conversation entirely.
Strong SEO is still the foundation. If you need that side handled too, see SEO and AI search optimization.
You’ll hear it called two other things:
- Generative engine optimization (GEO):
- making your business and content something tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google’s AI Overviews can understand and cite.
- Answer engine optimization (AEO):
- shaping your pages around direct answers to real questions, which is what AI answers, featured snippets and voice search pull from.
Why now
Why AI Search Matters Now
Customers ask full questions.
Not "cabin rental," but a pet-friendly cabin with a hot tub, close to town, that sleeps six. The businesses whose sites answer that kind of question are the ones that get named.
The answer comes before the click.
AI Overviews sit at the top of Google. ChatGPT and Perplexity often answer without sending anyone to a list of links at all. Being the source behind the answer matters more than it used to.
Small businesses have an opening.
Most of your competitors haven't adjusted yet. A clear, specific, well-structured site can hold its own against bigger names.
Services
What I Do as Your
AI SEO Agency
AI Visibility Check
I ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI the questions your customers ask, and record what they say about you and who they recommend instead. You get a plain report: where you show up, where you don't, and what's likely causing it.
Generative Engine Optimization
AI tools look for a consistent story. I line up your business name, services, locations, Google Business Profile, directory listings, reviews and About page so they all say the same thing, and build content specific enough to be worth citing.
Answer Engine Optimization Services
I rewrite your key pages and FAQs around the questions people actually ask, with short, direct answers near the top. That's the format AI tools, featured snippets and voice assistants lift from.
Structured Data That AI Can Read
Schema markup for your business, services, rentals, reviews and FAQs, so machines know exactly what you are without guessing.
AI Crawler Access and llms.txt
Many sites block AI crawlers without knowing it. I check your robots rules and hosting settings, open the doors you want open, and add an llms.txt file: a plain summary of your business written for AI systems.
Monthly AI Visibility Reporting
Each month I rerun the same questions across the AI tools and report what changed, alongside your Google Search Console numbers. Plain English, five minutes to read.
Proof
Results From
Real Clients
Numbers from Google Search Console. AI search builds on this same foundation.
How it works
How It Works
- 01
Free AI visibility check.
I look at what ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI say about you today.
- 02
Plan.
A prioritized list with a fixed scope and a clear monthly price. No surprise hours.
- 03
Fix and build.
Consistent business info, answer-first pages, schema and crawler access, biggest wins first.
- 04
Report and adjust.
The same AI questions rerun every month, with a plain report on what moved.
Who it’s for
Who This Is For
Small Business Owners
Local service businesses, shops and practices who want to be the name AI tools recommend, without hiring a big agency.
Vacation Rental Owners and Managers
Owners with a direct booking site who want guests to find them when they ask an AI tool where to stay, not only through the big listing sites. See more on vacation rental marketing.
Probably Not a Fit If
You want a guaranteed ChatGPT mention by next month. Nobody can honestly promise that.
Why me
Why Work With Me
- Ten years in websites, SEO and ads. AI search rewards the same fundamentals I've worked on for a decade.
- One person, start to finish. No account managers, no handoffs.
- I build the fixes, not just the report. Site, content, schema and tracking, all in house.
- Straight answers. You'll always know what I'm doing, why, and what it costs.
FAQ
AI SEO Questions,
Answered
01What does an AI SEO agency do?
An AI SEO agency helps your business get understood and recommended by AI tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. That includes checking what those tools say about you now, making your business information consistent across the web, writing answer-first content, adding structured data and making sure AI crawlers can read your site.
02What's the difference between GEO and AEO?
Answer engine optimization (AEO) is about formatting your content as clear, direct answers to specific questions. Generative engine optimization (GEO) is broader: making your whole business, across your site and the wider web, something AI tools understand, trust and cite. In practice I work on both together.
03Which AI tools do you optimize for?
ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google's AI Mode are the main ones I check, along with Gemini, Claude and Copilot where it makes sense for your customers. The underlying work is the same for all of them.
04Can you guarantee my business will show up in ChatGPT?
No, and be wary of anyone who does. The AI companies decide what appears in their answers. What I can do is remove what's holding you back and build the signals these tools tend to rely on, then show you each month what changed.
05Should I let AI crawlers access my website?
For most small businesses, yes. If AI tools can't read your site, they can't recommend you from it. Some hosts and security settings block AI crawlers by default, so it's worth checking. I'll review your settings and explain the tradeoffs before changing anything.
06Do you work with vacation rental owners?
Yes. Vacation rental owners and managers are one of my main focuses. I help direct booking sites get found when guests ask AI tools for places to stay.
Free AI visibility check
Does AI Recommend Your Business?
Find out free. I'll check what ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI say about you, and what's worth fixing first. I reply to every request.
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Serving Portland, OR, Bend, OR, St. Augustine, FL and Burlington, VT, and businesses anywhere in the US.