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GEO stands for Generative Engine Optimisation — making sure AI tools like ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, Microsoft’s Copilot, and Perplexity actually name your business when someone asks a question relevant to what you do.
This is genuinely different from a normal Google search. When someone searches Google the traditional way, they get a list of links and pick one themselves. When someone asks an AI tool the same question, the AI picks a small handful of businesses to name directly — often just one or two — and the person often never sees any other options at all. If you’re not one of the names it picks, you’re not “ranked lower.” You simply don’t exist in that conversation.
Every item below is marked with how confident the underlying evidence actually is: confirmed (the AI companies themselves have stated this is a factor), strongly observed (independent research consistently shows the pattern, even without an official confirmation), emerging (a genuine, reasonable bet, not yet backed by solid evidence), or measurement (not a ranking factor itself, but how you know the rest is working). Watch the panel on the left as you scroll — it tracks exactly which stage of the guide you’re looking at.
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Technical Foundations
The groundwork AI crawlers need just to reach, read and trust your site at all.
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Technical Foundations
Make sure AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot) can actually reach your site
ConfirmedEnsure key content renders without depending on JavaScript
ConfirmedMove genuinely useful content out from behind logins and paywalls
ConfirmedAdd schema markup so AI systems know exactly what your business is
ConfirmedConsider adding an llms.txt file
EmergingOn-Page & Content
Structure content so the direct answer leads, not buried in paragraph three
Strongly ObservedKeep key pages genuinely updated, not just re-dated
Strongly ObservedWrite comprehensive, original content with real local knowledge
Strongly ObservedResearch every real question an AI tool might be asked about your business
EmergingOff-Site & Authority
Mark up your review score with AggregateRating schema
Strongly ObservedEarn genuine mentions across the web, not just backlinks
Strongly ObservedParticipate genuinely in Reddit and property forum discussions
ConfirmedBuild real relationships with local journalists
Strongly ObservedEntity & Local Presence
Establish yourself as a recognised entity, not just a website
Strongly ObservedMatch your name, address and phone number exactly everywhere
Strongly ObservedComplete Google Business Profile, Bing Places and Apple Business Connect
Strongly ObservedMeasurement
Actually check what ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot say about you
MeasurementConnect AI mentions to real enquiries
MeasurementReputation
Catch and correct anything inaccurate an AI tool says about you
Strongly ObservedPlaying It Smart
Check where a named competitor is beating you in AI visibility
MeasurementClaim new AI platforms and features before they go mainstream
EmergingDownloads
The Free GEO Guide — full PDF
All 23 items in one document, exactly as they appear in the guide — to save, print, or read offline.
llms.txt Template
A fill-in-the-blank starting point for the emerging llms.txt standard — paste it in, swap the brackets.
AI Query Mapping Worksheet
Every real question an AI tool might be asked about your business — and which page should actually answer it.
Answer-Ready Content Rewrite Checklist
AI tools lift a direct answer, not a scroll — before and after examples, plus a checklist for your own pages.
Entity Consistency & sameAs Schema Kit
How AI tools confirm you're one real business, not several unconnected mentions — a fill-in-the-blank schema block.
AI Crawler Access Checklist
A blocked AI crawler means total invisibility, not a lower ranking — how to check in two minutes.
Content Visibility Checklist
Check whether your key content actually renders without JavaScript — most AI crawlers can't run it.
AI Recommendation Test Script
Deeper than a simple mention check — comparison and recommendation prompts, with a confidence-tier score.
AI Source Audit Worksheet
There's no “correct the AI” button — work out which real source is feeding a wrong answer, and fix that instead.
Property Subreddit & Forum Finder
The real UK property communities worth genuinely being part of — and how to participate without it backfiring.
Competitor AI Visibility Gap Finder
Specifically who gets named when AI platforms are asked — side by side against one real rival.
The end goal: being the name AI tools actually say, not just a website that technically exists somewhere in their training data.
One note: this guide covers GEO — AI tools like ChatGPT recommending you directly. Traditional SEO (Google, Bing, Apple) overlaps heavily but has its own guide.
One honest pattern worth flagging before you start: this field is newer than traditional SEO, and anyone claiming total certainty about how AI models pick who to cite is overselling what’s actually known. Nothing in here is beyond what you can genuinely do yourself — I’ll tell you plainly where the evidence is solid and where it’s still a reasonable bet, item by item, throughout.
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