How to choose an AI SEO agency without getting it wrong
What to ask, what to demand and when a platform with GEO included makes more sense.
More and more AI marketing agencies promise that ChatGPT will recommend your business. Before you sign, it pays to know what work lies behind GEO and how to check it is being done. This guide helps you choose, whether with an agency or with CustomIQ.
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Is your business invisible to the new search engines?
Your customers ask AI who to turn to and get two or three names. If you are not one of them, you lose customers without noticing, even if your website ranks well on Google.
The trouble is that GEO is new and easy to oversell: reports full of metrics that never turn into customers, or high monthly fees with no clear deliverables.
What we do
Choosing an AI SEO agency is hard when they all say the same thing. Here is what to ask, which deliverables to demand and how CustomIQ works, so you can compare with sound judgement.
What to ask of an AI SEO agency
Concrete deliverables
Which pages and articles it will create, which customer questions they will answer and when they go live. No calendar, no work.
Measurement in the assistants
How it will check whether ChatGPT, Gemini and AI search engines cite your business, not just your Google rankings.
A clear price and no lock-in
A fee you know up front and the freedom to leave if you see no results.
How we do it at CustomIQ
A content plan for your business
We find the questions your customers ask AI and plan the pages and articles that answer them, each with a publishing date.
Content AI can cite
We write direct answers, with facts about your service, your area and your price, plus the structured markup assistants read.
You choose who runs it
Run it yourself on the same platform we use, or hand it to our team with a monthly report.
An alternative to an agency, from €97/month
GEO is included in every CustomIQ plan from €97/month (excluding VAT), with no agency retainer and no lock-in. If you prefer the managed service, we prepare a custom quote.
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A visible calendar
You see what goes live and when, from day one.
No lock-in
Cancel whenever you like.
All in one place
GEO, SEO, social media and ads with the same agent, with no stack of tools.
How we work
We run it for you
End to end: strategy, execution and continuous optimization, with no agency fee and no lock-in.
You run it
You get the same tool we use: refined over years of experience and powered by AI, so you can use it from day one with our support.
Other pages on GEO (visibility in ChatGPT, Gemini and AI search)
GEO (visibility in ChatGPT, Gemini and AI search)
We structure your website and content so AI assistants cite your business when people ask who to turn to.
GEO pricing
What SEO for AI costs: GEO is included in every CustomIQ plan from €97/month, or we run it for you on a custom quote.
GEO for small businesses
How to appear in ChatGPT and Gemini as a small business: what your website needs for AI to recommend you, from €97/month.
Frequently asked questions
- Is it better to hire an AI SEO agency or do it with a tool?
- It depends on your time. With CustomIQ you can do both: run it yourself on the platform from €97/month, or hand it to our team with the managed service. Either way the work is the same: content that answers your customers’ questions, and measurement in the assistants.
- What alternatives are there to traditional agencies for appearing in ChatGPT?
- A platform with GEO included, such as CustomIQ: it plans and creates the content, publishes it on your website or blog and checks whether assistants cite you, with no agency retainer and no lock-in.
- How do I know whether an AI marketing agency is doing GEO well?
- Ask for the calendar of pages and articles, the questions each one answers and a regular check of whether ChatGPT or Gemini mention your business. If all you get is traffic reports, nobody is measuring your GEO.
Questions this page answers
If you have asked yourself any of these, you are in the right place.
- ?Is it better to hire an AI SEO agency or do it with a tool?
- ?What alternatives are there to traditional agencies for appearing in ChatGPT?
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