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Ecommerce AI SEO agency: get your products recommended by ChatGPT, Google AI and every other AI engine.

Your buyers are asking AI what to buy before they ever reach Google. We work out which prompts they actually use in your niche, then build the content, entities and citations that make the answer name your store.

Free audit first · No sales call required · From $2,500/month

The new shelf
Buyer prompt
What's the best vegan protein powder for weight loss?
AI answer
  • 1 A competitor you know
  • 2 Your store
  • 3 A marketplace listing
Sources behind it
Niche listicleReview siteReddit threadYour collection page
Illustration of how AI answers are assembled, not a client result.
2019Doing ecommerce SEO since
100+Ecommerce clients served
5AI engines monitored per prompt
$2,500Minimum monthly investment
What AI search changed

Three things are different. Everything else is still search.

Buyers ask, they no longer only search

The query is not "vegan protein powder" any more. It is "what is the best vegan protein powder for weight loss". One answer comes back, naming a handful of brands. Either you are in it or you are invisible for that buyer.

AI answers are assembled from sources

The models are not inventing recommendations. They pull from high-authority listicles, review sites, forums like Reddit, and the brand pages they can retrieve. Getting recommended is mostly a question of being in the sources they read.

It runs on the same search system

Google's own documentation is clear that its AI features are grounded in normal Search: indexed pages, crawlability, internal links, real content and structured data. There is no secret AI checklist, which is why we don't sell one.

Where you can show up

Every engine your buyers ask, one set of sources.

Each engine assembles answers slightly differently, but they draw on a similar pool of sources. Win the sources and you tend to win across several engines at once, which is what makes this work compound. We track the five below today, and add new ones as your buyers start using them.

ChatGPT

Leans heavily on high-authority listicles and its own web index when a buying question needs current products.

Google AI Overviews and AI Mode

Grounded in Google Search, so classic rankings, structured data and site quality carry straight over.

Perplexity

Cites sources openly, which makes it the easiest engine to reverse-engineer for citation gaps.

Gemini

Pulls from Google Search plus its own grounding, and rewards clear entity and product data.

Copilot

Sourced through Bing, which is why the Bing side of your technical setup still matters.

How we do it

The six steps we run, in this order.

01
STEP 1 / PROMPTS

Find the prompts your buyers actually use

No tool publishes prompt volumes, and the tools that generate prompts for you produce ones nobody has ever typed. We build your prompt set from your support inbox, your non-branded commercial keywords, the "best X for Y" and "where to buy X" patterns in your niche, and our own prompt research script. Then we rank them by the search demand behind the head terms, so you work on prompts that people actually use.

02
STEP 2 / RETRIEVABILITY

Make your store retrievable by AI crawlers

AI bot crawlability checks (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended and the rest), rendering, robots rules, feeds and product data. Then the on-page work that makes a product or category page answerable: clear specs, real copy, structured data, internal linking. A page an AI crawler cannot read or parse will never be cited.

03
STEP 3 / ENTITY

Make the model understand your brand

Entity optimization and brand coherence: consistent facts about your brand across your site, your schema and every profile that describes you. Models corroborate across sources, so contradictions cost you. This is unglamorous work that quietly decides whether you get named with confidence or hedged around.

04
STEP 4 / CONTENT

Fill the query fan-out and content gaps

AI engines fan a single question out into many sub-questions before answering. We review that fan-out for your buying questions, find where you have nothing to retrieve, and write it: blog content, collection page copy, product detail, comparisons and buying guidance. Content writing is included in your retainer, so the gaps get filled rather than logged.

05
STEP 5 / CITATIONS

Get into the sources AI is already citing

We reverse-engineer the citations behind your prompts: the exact articles each engine pulls from, and how often. Then we go and get you into them, or create the better version of them. Listicle placements, digital PR, reputation work, and presence in the forums and communities the models lean on. This is the single biggest lever in AI search, and the one most agencies skip.

06
STEP 6 / LONG TAIL

Win the long tail before the head terms

"Best running shoes" is defended by publishers who charge five figures for a placement. "Best running shoes for flat feet and wide toe box" is often defended by nobody. We start where placements cost a few hundred dollars and you can realistically be the first name in the answer, then work up. Attack the side door, not the front gate.

How we measure AI visibility

You should be able to see this working, or see that it isn't.

Share of voice across your tracked prompts usually starts moving within one to two months, because the models re-read their sources continuously. Placements and citations take longer to land, then keep paying. Every month you get the numbers, including the flat ones.

Prompt monitoring

Your buying prompts, tracked across five engines: whether you are mentioned, in what position, and which competitors hold the answer. Plus the citation list behind each one, which is where the next month's work comes from.

AI traffic and revenue

We build you a GA4 report that separates traffic from AI engines, with conversions and revenue attached, so AI visits stop hiding inside your other channels.

An honest word on attribution

AI traffic is harder to measure than Google traffic. A good share of it arrives with no referrer and lands in "direct", so no tool on the market sees all of it. We report what is genuinely measurable and tell you where the blind spots are, rather than inflating a number that looks good in a slide.

AI SEO and traditional SEO are one system, not two invoices.

Plenty of agencies have launched a separate GEO product with separate pricing and a list of tactics invented last quarter. We think that is mostly selling the same work twice. Google says outright that its AI features have no special technical requirements, and every study of AI citations keeps landing on the same foundations: be crawlable, be understandable, be recommended by sources that are trusted.

So we build one system. The prompt research, citation work and entity coherence are genuinely new. The technical foundation, the content and the authority work are the same things that have always won rankings, pointed at a wider set of destinations, and they are the same foundations behind our ecommerce SEO work and the numbers in our case studies. You get one team, one budget and one report.

What's included

One retainer, one budget, both channels.

  • Prompt research and a tracked prompt set for your buying questions
  • Monthly prompt monitoring across ChatGPT, Google AI, Perplexity, Gemini and Copilot
  • AI bot crawlability and retrievability checks
  • Query fan-out review and content gap analysis
  • Content writing: blog, collection and product page content to fill those gaps
  • Entity optimization, structured data and brand coherence across your profiles
  • Citation reverse-engineering and citation-source acquisition
  • Listicle placements, brokered and paid for inside your budget
  • Digital PR campaigns and online reputation management
  • Link building to the pages that need authority
  • Forum and community presence where your niche actually discusses products
  • Conversion work on existing blog content, so the traffic you keep earns more
  • GA4 setup that separates AI traffic, with revenue and conversions attached
  • Ongoing testing of new AI ranking tactics, at our cost, not yours

What it costs

AI search work runs inside our normal ecommerce SEO packages, which start at $2,500 a month. There is no separate AI invoice. We agree how the budget splits between classic search and AI search based on what your store needs, and we revisit that split as the results come in.

Listicle placements and digital PR are bought from the same budget. They run from roughly $50 to $5,000 per placement, with most of the useful ones between $200 and $500, and we fit in as many as the month allows.

No lock-in contracts, one month's notice, and your first month is money-back guaranteed.

See the packages

This is for you if

  • You sell online and want to be named when buyers ask AI what to buy in your category
  • You can invest at least $2,500 a month, placements included
  • You would rather move while your competitors are still arguing about whether this matters
  • You want the same team handling classic search, so the two compound instead of competing

It probably isn't if

  • ×You want a guarantee of a specific position in a specific engine. Nobody can give you that honestly
  • ×You need this month's revenue. AI visibility compounds, it does not spike
  • ×Your store cannot publish content or be written about, because citations are the engine of this work
  • ×You are pre-revenue and still working out whether people want the product
Do it yourself first

We publish the methods, not just the pitch.

Two of the scripts we use in client work are free, next to this. Everything else on this page is explained step by step on our YouTube channel: how to find the prompts your buyers use, how to track where you appear, how to reverse-engineer the citations behind an answer, and how to set up AI traffic reporting in GA4. Take it and run it yourself if you have the time. Hire us if you don't.

FAQs

Straight answers about AI SEO

Both exist in the market, so it is a fair question. The hype version sells you a list of "GEO tactics" invented last quarter. The real version is this: AI answers are assembled from sources, so you win by being retrievable, being understood as an entity, and being present in the sources the models cite. That is measurable work with a measurable output, and it is what we do. We will also tell you plainly which parts of it are established and which parts we are still testing.

Free audit

See where your store stands in AI search, free.

A 5-7 minute personalised video: where you and your competitors currently show up in AI answers for your category, what the organic opportunity is worth, and whether this is worth your budget right now. Delivered in 1-2 working days, no sales call.

  • Where your store stands today in organic and AI search for your niche
  • Which queries and prompts matter in your category, and who owns those answers now
  • The size of the opportunity: the realistic organic revenue your store could capture
  • An honest answer on whether this is worth your budget right now, even if that answer is no

We only do 20 a month, and we turn away stores where we don't see the odds.

A real audit video: Gert walking through a store's SEO opportunity on screen in a personal recording
What a delivered audit looks like: a personal video walkthrough of your store.

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