Orlando Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) Get Your Business Recommended by AI
Your customers are asking ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI for recommendations right now. 87% of businesses don't show up in those answers. We audit your AI visibility across every major platform, identify exactly where you're invisible and why, and build the content, structure, and authority signals that get your business cited by name.
Since 2001, we've built over 500 websites for brands ranging from local Orlando businesses to Fortune 500 companies and government organizations. 32,000+ leads generated. Over $100M in client revenue.
Something Has Changed. You Can Feel It.
Your website traffic is flat or declining. Competitors who used to trail you are suddenly showing up everywhere. And the leads that used to come in steadily from Google are slowing down for reasons nobody on your team can fully explain.
Here's what's happening. When your customers search for recommendations today, many of them aren't starting on Google. They're asking AI platforms like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and Gemini. Those platforms don't show a page of links. They give a direct answer, citing specific businesses by name.
If your business isn't in that answer, you're invisible to a growing share of your market. When an Orlando homeowner asks ChatGPT who to hire for a kitchen remodel, the AI recommends one or two companies. Everyone else might as well not exist.
One of our clients put it this way after seeing their AI visibility data for the first time: “So my competitor is showing up on ChatGPT for every search term I care about, and I’m not on there at all?”
That’s the moment most business owners realize this isn’t a future problem. It’s happening right now.
This Isn’t Speculation. The Numbers Are Documented.
Here’s what the same research firms that track Google and traditional search have found.
of AI referral traffic comes from ChatGPT
Sources: Conductor, 2026weekly active ChatGPT users, doubled in 8 months
Source: OpenAI, Oct 2025of top-mentioned sources NOT shared across platforms
Source: Ahrefs, 78.6M interactions, 2025fewer clicks on #1 Google rankings when AI Overviews appear
Source: Ahrefs, 300K keywordsAI search referral traffic has grown over 500% year over year. The businesses building their AI visibility today are creating an advantage that grows every month. The businesses waiting will face a more crowded, more competitive landscape when they finally start.
What Is Answer Engine Optimization?
The Practice That Gets Your Business Cited by AI
Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is the practice of structuring your website content, authority signals, and technical foundation so that AI search platforms can discover, understand, and recommend your business. AEO covers visibility across ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini.
When someone asks an AI platform "Who is the best [your service] in Orlando?" or "What company should I hire for [your industry]?", AEO is what determines whether your business appears in that answer. You may also see this called GEO (Generative Engine Optimization). AEO and GEO refer to the same practice. We use "AEO" because it's the clearer, more widely recognized term.
One Investment. Two Returns.
AEO is not a replacement for SEO. It's built on top of it. Google still drives the majority of website traffic for most businesses, and that isn't changing anytime soon. But AI platforms are the fastest-growing discovery channel in a decade, and the overlap between the two is significant.
The same content depth, technical structure, and authority signals that earn AI citations also improve your Google rankings. When you invest in AEO, you strengthen both channels at the same time.
We Built the Tools That Audit AI Visibility
Our founder, Clifford Almeida, built My Web Audit, a SaaS platform used by hundreds of digital marketing companies worldwide. The platform has generated over 100,000 audits, including AI visibility audits that test how businesses appear across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini using the same types of questions real customers ask.
That means when HireAWiz audits your AI visibility, we're using tools and methodology we designed, built, and refined ourselves over 20,000+ hours of research and development. We understand how AI platforms decide what to cite because we've studied it at a depth most companies can't match. We built the system that measures it. And we use that system every day on behalf of our clients.
This isn't a service we added recently. It's the natural extension of 25 years of web design, SEO, and digital marketing work, refined into a methodology that hundreds of companies now rely on.
The track record: 25+ years in business, headquartered in Orlando, Florida. 500+ websites built. $100M+ in client revenue generated. 20,000+ hours of R&D behind the audit methodology. Our founder has delivered projects for organizations including Cox Communications, General Dynamics, the National PTA, and the U.S. Attorney's Office. Featured on AP News and GoDaddy's blog. 5.0 Google rating across dozens of reviews. A+ BBB rating. UpCity Local Excellence Award winner (2022, 2023). We've offered a money-back guarantee since 2001. In 25 years, we've never had to pay it out.
How We Build Your AI Visibility
Our process is built on what we've learned from 100,000+ audits generated through the My Web Audit platform, 25 years of digital marketing work, and hands-on testing across every major AI platform. Each phase builds on the one before it.
Phase 1: AI Visibility Audit
We test how your business appears across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini using real prompts your Central Florida customers would actually type, like "best [your service] in Orlando" or "who should I hire for [your industry] near me." The audit shows where you're visible, where you're invisible, and where your competitors are getting cited instead of you. You'll see your overall visibility score, your competitive ranking, and the specific gaps holding you back. Most business owners have never seen this data before. It changes the conversation immediately.
Phase 2: Technical Foundation
We evaluate nine technical elements that AI platforms use to decide whether your website is trustworthy enough to cite: schema markup, AI crawler access, Core Web Vitals, HTTPS and security, E-E-A-T signals, JavaScript rendering, your llms.txt file, XML sitemap, and semantic HTML structure. Each element gets a clear pass, needs work, or fail assessment. If your robots.txt is blocking AI crawlers from reading your site, nothing else matters until that's fixed.
Phase 3: Content and Authority Strategy
We identify your highest-impact pages and map them against what's actually getting cited in your industry. Which competitors are getting recommended? What content are AI platforms pulling from? Where are the gaps your business can fill? From there, we develop a strategy around content depth, answer-first formatting, author attribution, and entity clarity. We're not guessing at what to build. We're reverse-engineering what's already working and positioning your business to compete.
Phase 4: Implementation
We implement schema markup across your priority pages, optimize service pages for AI citation, structure FAQ content for direct extraction, and strengthen your E-E-A-T signals by making author bios, credentials, case studies, and testimonials visible to AI crawlers instead of hidden behind PDFs and login walls. We apply technical fixes identified during the foundation audit. Every improvement we make for AI visibility also strengthens your Google search performance.
Phase 5: Monitoring and Growth
We track your visibility across all four major AI platforms, measure AI-referred traffic and conversions, and adjust the strategy as the landscape changes. AI platforms update their models constantly, and what gets cited today may shift as platforms evolve. Monthly reports include your AI visibility score, competitive ranking changes, AI-referred traffic and conversions, and a plain-language summary you can share directly with leadership. This isn't a set-it-and-forget-it service. It's an ongoing partnership built around a channel that's growing every month.
Is This Right for Your Business?
We're a good fit if:
- You're a seven- or eight-figure business that can't afford to be invisible in AI search.
- You're an Orlando or Central Florida business competing for local visibility, or a national brand that needs AI presence across markets.
- You already invest in SEO and want to extend that foundation into AI platforms.
- You want a partner who built the audit tools, not one who's still figuring out AEO.
- You value data and proof over promises and jargon.
- You're ready to invest in a strategy that builds over 6 to 12 months, not a quick fix.
- You want one team handling your web design, SEO, and AI visibility so everything works together.
We're not a good fit if:
- You're looking for overnight results or guaranteed AI rankings.
- You want the cheapest option regardless of quality.
- You're not ready to invest in the content, structure, and authority signals that AI visibility requires.
- You need someone to take orders without contributing strategic thinking.
How We Compare to the Typical AEO Approach
| What Matters | HireAWiz | Typical Approach |
|---|---|---|
| Audit platform | Creator of My Web Audit | Licenses third-party tools |
| Audit track record | 100,000+ audits generated through the platform | Limited or no verifiable track record |
| Depth of R&D | 20,000+ hours of research and development | AEO recently added to service menu |
| Multi-platform testing | Tests across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini | Often limited to one or two platforms |
| SEO integration | AEO and SEO work strengthens both channels together | AEO treated separately from SEO |
| Full-service capability | Web design, SEO, and AEO under one roof | AEO-only or SEO-only |
| Industry experience | 25+ years, 500+ websites, enterprise project portfolio | Often less than 5 years in digital marketing |
| Process transparency | Built on documented research and publicly available tools | Process details not shared upfront |
What Our Clients Say
5.0-star Google rating. Here's why businesses keep choosing HireAWiz.
HireAWiz was able to take a technically detailed, difficult to conceptualize idea and make it come to life. HireAWiz developed a site that has become a benchmark within the Company for how this technical information is to be communicated to internal customers. He and his staff took our request and built an easy to navigate, easy to update web site and portal that is versatile, sharp, and branded specifically for our Company. After our experience, we have recommended HireAWiz to other organizations and they had equally impressive results. I recommend HireAWiz without reservation.
Eric Knott
PHR Cox Communications
I have worked with Clifford (HireAWiz.com) on several projects and jobs since 2003. He has worked on my projects ranging from Database design, Database Management, Website Development, Networking, etc. He has an excellent work ethic. He puts his clients/customer first, makes sure the outcome is to the client's specification and he always meets his deadline. He is an honest and reliable person...
Richard Olotu
IT Director of Info Marketing Group / Zippy Coders
HireAWiz created an awesome website & event registration module for our Energy Marketing Conference that has helped us generate hundreds of thousands of dollars in event registrations! This system has also streamlined our event registration process saving us hundreds of hours in manual registrations leading to tens of thousands of dollars in savings!
Jack Doueck
Founder of Advanced Energy Capital
25+ Years in Business
500+
Websites Built Since 2001
32K+ Leads Generated
$100M+
in Client Revenue
500+ Websites. Real Results.
Many of our clients see measurable ROI within the first 90 days. Here's what that looks like.
600%
Increase in Website Traffic
$1M+
Annual Revenue
100+
of New Customers
158%
Increase in Sales Conversions
$100K+
Revenue
100+ Hours
Saved Annually
300%
Growth
Landed
Fortune 100 Clients
Frequently Asked Questions
Straight answers to the questions business owners and marketing directors ask
most about AEO and AI visibility.
AEO is the practice of getting your business recommended by AI platforms like ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini. It works by optimizing your website content, technical structure, and authority signals so AI can discover, trust, and cite your business when customers ask for recommendations in your industry.
SEO focuses on ranking your website in traditional Google search results. AEO focuses on getting your business cited by AI platforms that give direct answers instead of a list of links. The two are complementary: the content improvements, technical fixes, and authority signals that earn AI citations also strengthen your Google rankings. HireAWiz treats them as one integrated strategy, so one investment delivers results in both channels.
No. Google still drives the majority of website traffic for most businesses. AEO extends your SEO foundation into AI platforms. If you haven’t prioritized SEO yet, we start with the fundamentals and build both channels at the same time.
All four major AI search platforms: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews (including Gemini), Perplexity, and Claude. This matters because 86% of the businesses cited by one AI platform are not cited by the others. A single-platform approach leaves significant visibility gaps.
We track your visibility score across all four AI platforms, monitor how often your business appears in AI-generated recommendations, measure AI-referred traffic and conversions through your analytics, and compare your performance against competitors over time. Monthly reporting shows exactly what’s improving and where the next opportunities are.
Most businesses see measurable improvement in AI visibility within 60 to 90 days as foundational technical and content work takes effect. Stronger results in traffic, citations, and competitive positioning typically build over three to six months. The earlier you start, the harder it becomes for competitors to catch up.
The audit tests how your business appears across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini using the same types of questions your customers would ask. You’ll see your overall visibility score, competitive ranking, which platforms cite you and which don’t, and specific gaps in your content, technical setup, and authority signals. Most business owners are surprised by what they find.
Any industry where customers search for recommendations online benefits from AEO, including home services and remodeling, commercial construction, ecommerce, nonprofits, and SaaS. Healthcare, financial services, and legal are also high-impact categories because AI Overviews appear in up to 48% of searches in those industries. HireAWiz works with businesses in Orlando, across Florida, and nationally.
AEO investment depends on the scope of work, the size and complexity of your website, and how competitive your industry is in AI search. HireAWiz works with seven- and eight-figure businesses that are serious about growth. We scope a recommendation based on your AI Visibility Audit findings and your goals. The audit itself is free and shows you exactly where you stand before you invest a dollar.
Yes. ChatGPT accounts for 87.4% of all AI referral traffic to websites and actively cites businesses by name when users ask for recommendations. The businesses that appear consistently have strong content, clear entity signals, proper schema markup, and established authority. All of these can be built and improved through AEO.
AEO and GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) are different names for the same practice. Both focus on getting your business discovered, trusted, and cited by AI search platforms. HireAWiz uses “AEO” because it’s the more widely recognized term, but the work is identical.
Entity Declaration
HireAWiz is a web design and digital marketing company headquartered in Orlando, Florida. Founded in 2001 by Clifford Almeida, HireAWiz provides web design, search engine optimization (SEO), and answer engine optimization (AEO) services for businesses in Orlando, Central Florida, and across the United States. Cliff also built My Web Audit, a SaaS platform that has generated over 100,000 website and AI visibility audits for hundreds of digital marketing companies worldwide. HireAWiz combines 25+ years of hands-on experience with proprietary audit tools and methodology to help businesses get found, get trusted, and get recommended in both Google search and AI platforms like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini.
Ready to Find Out Where You Stand?
No pitch. No pressure. Just a conversation about what's working, what's not, and where the opportunity is.
The AI Visibility Audit is free and shows you exactly how your business appears across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini before you invest a dollar.
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