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Generative engine optimization services that get your business cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. Month to month, from $1,500 per month.
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Generative engine optimization services make your business the answer AI engines cite when buyers ask ChatGPT, Perplexity or Google's AI Overviews who to hire. At Kihan Marketing, GEO is built into SEO plans scoped to your goals, month to month, with no long term contract. Expect early movement in weeks and meaningful traction in 60 to 90 days.
When a buyer asks ChatGPT for a web design agency, asks Perplexity to compare property managers, or sees an AI Overview at the top of a Google result, the engine is choosing a handful of businesses to name and cite. Generative engine optimization services exist to make your business one of them. The work targets the inputs AI engines rely on: how clearly your site answers real questions, how consistently your brand appears across the web, and whether AI crawlers can read your pages at all.
If you are comparing generative engine optimization GEO services right now, the honest framing is this: GEO is not a replacement for SEO, it is the layer on top of it. The same foundation that earns Google rankings, crawlable pages, clear structure, demonstrated expertise, is exactly what AI engines draw from when they compose an answer. A good provider treats the two as one program, not two invoices.
The channel is early
Classic search still drives the large majority of website traffic, but studies through 2025 consistently show AI assistants sending a small and fast growing share of referrals, and early data suggests those visitors often arrive closer to a decision. GEO is about being present before the channel gets crowded.
A serious GEO engagement is part content work, part technical work, and part measurement. If a proposal only mentions writing blog posts, it is a content retainer with a new label. These are the pieces you should expect to see, and the pieces included in every Kihan Marketing plan.
The two disciplines overlap heavily, which is why buying them separately usually means paying twice for the same foundation. The table below shows where they differ, and where one program should cover both.
| Dimension | Traditional SEO | GEO |
|---|---|---|
| Goal | Rank pages in the classic results | Get named and cited inside AI answers |
| Where you win | Google and Bing results pages | ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, AI Overviews |
| Content style | Keyword targeted pages and posts | Direct answers, structured facts, quotable passages |
| Technical layer | Crawlability, speed, internal links | All of that plus schema depth, llms.txt, AI crawler access |
| Proof signals | Backlinks and authority | Consistent citations, mentions and sources engines trust |
| Measurement | Rankings, clicks, conversions | Citation share on tracked prompts, AI referral traffic |
| Timeline | Early movement in weeks, meaningful traction in 60 to 90 days | Similar, with citation refresh cycles that vary by engine |
Because the discipline is young, GEO pricing across the market is inconsistent. Most published agency surveys put small business SEO retainers somewhere between roughly $1,000 and $5,000 per month, and GEO work is increasingly folded into those retainers rather than sold as a separate line item. Standalone GEO retainers exist, but their pricing varies widely and often duplicates work an SEO retainer already covers.
Kihan Marketing keeps it simple: GEO is built into every SEO plan rather than billed twice. The table shows the common pricing models you will encounter while shopping, and where our published prices fit.
| Pricing model | How it typically works | Where Kihan Marketing fits |
|---|---|---|
| One-time GEO audit | A fixed fee snapshot of your current AI visibility with a fix list | Folded into the first month of any plan, not sold separately |
| GEO bundled into SEO | One retainer covers rankings and AI citations together | Our approach. SEO is scoped to your goals with GEO built in |
| Standalone GEO retainer | A separate monthly fee just for AI visibility work | We do not split it out. Separating GEO from SEO usually means paying twice for overlapping work |
| Growth package | A broader retainer covering SEO, GEO, content and conversion work | Growth packages are scoped to your goals |
| Site rebuild plus GEO foundation | A redesign engineered for AI readability from day one | Website design is scoped to your project |
Month to month
Every Kihan Marketing plan is month to month with no long term contract. If the work stops earning its keep, you can stop paying for it.
GEO is new enough that plenty of providers are selling the label without the substance. Before you sign anything, put the proposal against this list. A provider that clears most of it is doing real work. A provider that dodges the measurement questions is selling you a story.
Red flag
Any provider guaranteeing you will rank number one in ChatGPT is guessing or lying. AI answers vary by user, phrasing, session and model version. The inputs can be optimized. The output cannot be bought.
Kihan Marketing is a Seattle web development and SEO agency serving clients across the US. That combination matters for GEO more than it might seem, because a large share of generative engine optimization is site work: restructuring pages into citable answers, adding schema, fixing crawler access, publishing llms.txt. Agencies that only write content have to hand that work to your developer and hope. Because we build websites and run SEO under one roof, the same team that finds a gap fixes it.
Our pricing is published and simple. Website design is scoped to your project. SEO plans, with GEO built in, are scoped to your goals. Growth packages are scoped to your goals. Everything is month to month with no long term contract, so the decision to keep working with us gets remade every month based on what the reporting shows.
What we will not do is promise you a specific citation. No agency controls what an AI engine says. What we control is whether your site is the clearest, best structured, most consistently referenced source available when the engine goes looking, and we report plainly on whether that is happening.
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Across the US market, most published agency surveys put small business SEO retainers somewhere between roughly $1,000 and $5,000 per month, and GEO is increasingly included in those retainers rather than priced separately. At Kihan Marketing, GEO is built into SEO plans scoped to your goals, growth packages are scoped to your goals, and everything runs month to month with no long term contract.
Expect early movement in weeks and meaningful traction in 60 to 90 days. The engines refresh their sources at different rates: Perplexity and AI Overviews lean on live search indexes and can pick up changes quickly, while chat models trained on periodic snapshots take longer. That is why we track a fixed set of buyer prompts every month instead of promising a single date.
Usually not as a separate line item, and be wary of anyone selling it that way. Strong SEO covers most of the foundation AI engines rely on. GEO adds specific work on top: restructuring pages into direct quotable answers, deepening schema, opening access to AI crawlers, and tracking citations. The right move is one program that does both, which is how our plans are built.
No, and no honest provider can. AI answers vary by phrasing, location, session and model version, so guarantees of specific placements are a red flag. What can be done reliably is improving every input the engines draw from, measuring citation share on the prompts that matter to your buyers, and reporting that number plainly each month.
Three measures. First, citation tracking: we test a fixed list of prompts your buyers ask and record when your business is named or linked. Second, AI referral traffic: visits from ChatGPT, Perplexity and similar sources show up in your analytics and tend to be well qualified. Third, the classic SEO metrics, since the same work lifts rankings. You see all three in one monthly report.
It works well locally. Buyers ask AI assistants for the best roofer, dentist or property manager in their city, and the engines answer with named businesses. Local GEO leans on consistent name, address and phone data, review signals, and city specific service pages, which pairs naturally with the local SEO work already in our plans.
Access to your website, Google Search Console and analytics, plus an hour to tell us how customers actually describe what you do. From there we run the baseline AI visibility audit and send a free proposal within one business day. If you go ahead, you are on a month to month plan with no long term contract. Call (425) 954-3452 to start.
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