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AI SEO · AI Overviews, ChatGPT and other assistants · USA and Canada
AI SEO agency for companies that want to show up in AI answers
PromotEdge International works as an AI SEO agency for businesses in the USA, Canada and other markets. We make your company easier for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google's AI Overviews to find, understand and name. Our delivery team is in India, and we will tell you plainly what can and cannot be controlled.
Help your company show up when buyers ask AI assistants for advice.
In short
We work on getting your company into the answers AI assistants give. Nobody can make an assistant name you, so we fix what we can control and track the rest.
Whatever name you search for, AI SEO services, an AEO agency (answer engine optimization), a GEO agency (generative engine optimization), an LLM SEO agency or a ChatGPT SEO agency, it is the same work, and this page covers all of it.
AI SEO services we offer
Most companies need the first three before anything else makes sense.
| Service | What you get |
|---|---|
| AI visibility audit and prompt benchmarking | We put your buyers' questions to each assistant, and record who gets named, which sources are cited and what the answers get wrong about you. |
| Technical SEO for AI crawlers | Real page fetches as each crawler, because a firewall can refuse a bot that robots.txt allows. |
| Entity and schema markup | One consistent set of company facts across your site, profiles and structured data. Schema has to describe what is visible on the page, so we add it only where that holds. |
| Answer-ready content | Pages that state the answer first and back it up, for AEO and GEO alike. Tables, dated facts and named sources give an assistant something it can quote. |
| Third-party mentions | Assistants lean on what others say about you, so directories, reviews and press count. |
| Bing and ChatGPT search | Bing Webmaster Tools, IndexNow and access for OAI-SearchBot, alongside your Google work. |
| Local AI search | Correct profiles and reviews for businesses with real locations customers can visit. |
| AI share-of-voice reporting | How often you are named next to rivals for an agreed set of questions, tied to leads where the data allows. |
Part of our SEO services work.
Brands we have worked with
- Fine Organics
- Weichai
- Novozymes
- Dozco
- SANY
- Prezent
- Honest AI
- SCENNE
- Sara International
- Vega MPS
- Desi Machine Pvt. Ltd.
Work delivered from India. Results are shared one to one, under NDA.
- Since 2015
- Round the clock, as per your location
- 4 pillars
- We travel to our clients every 3 to 4 months
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How we work
- 01
Tell us the goal
A rough note through the form on what you sell and what needs to change.
- 02
We study your market
How people find you today, where inquiries get lost, then a call in your working day.
- 03
A written plan
The work, who does it and how it is measured. Nothing starts until you approve it.
- 04
The work starts
Our team in India does the work, with calls set in your working hours.
- 05
Reports and visits
Every number we report shows its source and date range, and we travel to our clients every 3 to 4 months.
Industries we serve
- ConstructionMarketing for construction
- ManufacturersMarketing for manufacturers
- SaaS and techMarketing for saas and tech
- Real estateMarketing for real estate
- StartupsMarketing for startups
- Professional servicesMarketing for professional services
- HealthcareMarketing for healthcare
- Car dealershipsMarketing for car dealerships
- LandscapingMarketing for landscaping
- Engineering firmsMarketing for engineering firms
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- Hotels and tourismMarketing for hotels and tourism
- LogisticsMarketing for logistics
- EducationMarketing for education
- FinanceMarketing for finance
- ChemicalsMarketing for chemicals
- Life sciencesMarketing for life sciences
- MiningMarketing for mining
- Building productsMarketing for building products
Common challenges
What gets in the way of AI visibility
These are typical situations, not results from a named client.
The wrong bot gets blocked
OpenAI's search and training crawlers are separate. You can allow OAI-SearchBot to appear in search results and disallow GPTBot if you do not want content used for training. It is easy to block both by accident.
Assistants mix you up with someone else
Similar names, old directory entries and a sister company can blend into one wrong answer. We write one set of facts and correct the sources that disagree.
Answers change every time you ask
There is no fixed position to report, so a single screenshot proves little. We run each question several times and report how often you are named.
Someone is selling a secret file or trick
Treat any promised shortcut with care. Ask to see how the advice fits Google's own guidance, and what evidence stands behind it.
Your best answers are hidden
If text appears only after scripts run, or sits behind a form, a crawler may never read it. Some AI crawlers do not run scripts at all, so we check the plain HTML of the pages that matter.
Answers rise while clicks fall
An assistant can name you without sending a visit. We watch leads, branded searches and what buyers say when they call, as clicks alone will miss it.
How we work
How an AI SEO project runs
- 01
A list of buyer questions
We write the questions your buyers ask before they choose a supplier, for each market you sell in.
- 02
A baseline
Each question goes to each assistant more than once, because answers vary from run to run.
- 03
Access checks
We test whether each crawler can really fetch your pages, then fix whatever blocks it.
- 04
Facts first
We correct what assistants get wrong about you, at the sources they read.
- 05
Content and mentions
We fill the gaps the baseline showed, in order of how close each question is to a buying decision.
- 06
A monthly re-run
The same questions run again each month, so you can see what moved and what did not.
What AI SEO is
AI SEO has two meanings. It can mean getting your company into the answers AI assistants give, and it can mean using AI tools to do SEO work faster. This page is about the first.
Other assistants run their own systems, so we check each one separately. Nobody can make an assistant name you, and any agency that says otherwise is selling a promise it cannot keep.
AI SEO matters most where buyers ask for advice before they buy, such as B2B software, professional services and expensive purchases. If your customers pick a supplier from a map or a price list, your ordinary local SEO and ads will do more for you.
For a business in India, see PromotEdge's AI SEO services.
Cost
What AI SEO costs
There is no public price list, because the cost follows the job.
What affects the cost
- How many markets and questions we track
- How much your site needs fixing
- How much content and outreach the gaps call for
How we price
You see the scope and the fee in writing before work starts.
Questions buyers ask us
It works to get a company named and cited when people ask AI assistants for advice or suppliers. That means making sure crawlers can reach your pages, your company facts agree everywhere, your pages answer buyers' questions, and other sites mention you.
They are different names for one goal: being found and cited in the answers that AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google's AI Overviews give. Our answer engine optimization services, LLM SEO and ChatGPT SEO work all use the same steps described on this page.
Less than most sellers claim. For Google, the usual SEO best practices remain relevant. The differences lie in what you measure, in the wider set of crawlers you need to allow, and in how much third-party mentions matter. If your basic SEO is weak, fix that first.
Ask what it cannot control. Ask how it handles answers that change between runs, and which crawlers it tests and how. Then ask it to run your buyer questions in front of you and explain the sources behind each answer. Vague talk about secret signals is a warning.
We track how often you are named for an agreed set of questions, which sources are cited, and whether the facts are right. Then we look for the business effect: leads, branded searches and what buyers say about how they found you. Some of that can only be shown as a trend.
We cannot promise it, and nobody honestly can. We can make sure ChatGPT's search crawler can reach you, that your facts are correct, and that useful sources mention you, which improves the odds. We report what happens, including when it does not move.
It is not required. Google says its AI features need no special optimization, and we have no evidence that a file alone changes what assistants say. It is cheap to add, so we may include one, as a small extra after the work above.
Our delivery team is in India, and we travel to our clients every 3 to 4 months. Shivanand Mishra, our Digital Marketing Lead, leads this work with Milton Das on data research. They use licensed tools and software. We are available round the clock, 24x7, as per your location.
Tell us what is not working
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