An AI answer may mention your brand, but it can just as easily cite a competitor while missing evidence you've already published. We first record what appears. Then we work on the conditions you control and measure the result over time.
GEO lifecycle connecting discovery, implementation, and ongoing operation

Some of the 500+ brands we've worked with

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  • Amazon
  • Enpara
  • Mustela
  • GAP
  • BNP Paribas Cardif
  • Mynet
  • Doğtaş

GEO improves the accuracy of brand mentions and citations inside AI-generated answers, including how the answer represents your brand. SEO works with a ranked list of links. GEO also checks whether cited sources support what the answer says.

The change is already visible to buyers. More questions end with an answer and no click, and that answer may name only a few brands. GEO aims to earn a place among them while keeping a record of what changed.

One way to describe this is a shift from link-based retrieval to synthesis, where the system writes the answer directly. The same behavior can be framed through the “Principle of Least Effort”.

An AI system may draw on several parts of your web presence for one answer. We examine the content that resolves the question, the sources a model may trust, and whether its crawlers can reach and read the page.

A published GEO benchmark reported visibility gains of up to 40% for selected tactics in its own evaluation. We use that finding as research input. It isn't a forecast or guarantee. Production work still needs a brand-specific baseline, controlled testing, and human review.

The recommendations begin with evidence.

We start by recording how often the brand appears in AI answers and which competitors receive citations for the same questions.

That baseline shows where the gaps are. We then decide which questions matter to your buyers and deserve a test.

The page work follows. We bring the useful answer forward and add schema markup when it removes ambiguity. We also check direct access for AI crawlers such as GPTBot and ClaudeBot.

After the changes go live, we keep tracking citation gaps, sentiment, and accuracy. The picture can move as models update and competitors publish.

A Zeo team mapping the signals that shape generative search visibility

GEO adds a measurement layer to the keyword strategy you already use. Together, we agree on a versioned question set and how it will be measured. We check `robots.txt` and test direct crawler access before prioritizing changes that make the brand's facts easier to find and understand. The model still decides which sources it selects or cites. The first benchmark shows which questions cite competitors today. Those results tell us where an initial test is worth the effort.

  1. Discover

    We establish the current AI-search baseline and map the gaps. This review also covers entity and schema setup, along with direct checks of AI crawler access.

  2. Build

    We put the direct answer and its sources in place first. Then we tighten the supporting schema and, where relevant, connect real-time feeds or prepare the systems behind them.

  3. Operate

    As AI search products change, we keep the schema current and report on visibility reach, sentiment, and citation gaps.

Our clients describe the work in their own words.

Didem Namver
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We were working with a global supplier on SEO before. Accessibility and process management were a little more difficult with these teams. At the same time, in terms of budget, global suppliers were more costly for us due to exchange rate differences and man-hours. When we started working with Zeo, we first went through an audit, fixing the results and problems. After these processes, we placed SEO in a strategic place for digital marketing and created an always-on SEO strategy for our brands and implemented it step by step.

Didem Namver, Sr. Head of Digital

Yiğit Ertem
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As MediaMarkt, we have been working with Zeo for 6 years in a very tight and coordinated way to manage our SEO processes. We receive the highest level of feedback from Zeo on increasing and improving our organic traffic. It is very enjoyable to get fast support on all our issues 24/7 and to work with Zeo to better embrace and continuously improve our brand, and we recommend it to everyone.

Yiğit Ertem, Ecommerce Web Channel & PIM Department Manager

Emre Baykal
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We strictly follow the regulations and algorithms that can change at any time; We need to act quickly. At this point, Zeo has become a partner that meets all our expectations with its professional, innovative and solution-oriented approach. The Zeo team has become a stakeholder in success by looking at our optimization processes and our brand as their own value. As the Acıbadem Healthcare Group family, we would like to thank all the Zeo team, who work tirelessly, constantly improve, and do not compromise on keeping their energy high under all circumstances!

Emre Baykal, Director of Digital Marketing

Kaan Deniz
Jack Martin

Besides increasing our website's visibility in the UK with Zeo, the experienced team that closely follows its work and has extensive experience in its field has always made us feel like we are in the right place for SEO. We are on the right track with Zeo in a country and industry where competition is high.

Kaan Deniz, Founder

Zeynep Yaşar
Armağan

We talked to a number of agencies while we were planning our website's infrastructure migration, and we ended up with Zeo. They start by understanding the problem, then bring fresh approaches to solving it better. Communication is strong, and they support you at whatever point you turn out to need it. Every minute we spend working with them convinces us further that we made the right call. If you're looking for someone to sort out the digital side, you're in the right place.

Zeynep Yaşar, Business Development Specialist & E-commerce Project Manager

Generative search leaves less to read than a rankings report does, so most of this work is assembling evidence from tools that were never built for it.

AI answer and citation tracking

  • ProfoundThe hub's opening claim, that an AI answer may mention a brand or cite a competitor while missing published evidence, is the exact gap Profound's Answer Engine Insights module records across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews. It anchors the family-wide baseline that every capability below narrows into a specific method.
  • AhrefsWhere a claim needs a second, independent read on AI Overview presence, not only a purpose-built platform's number, Ahrefs' Brand Radar supplies it from data the team already holds for organic work, which is useful for the hub-level sanity check before a capability team commits to a deeper audit.
  • SimilarwebWhen a program needs to show that AI visibility work is moving actual visits, not just mentions, Similarweb's AI referral segmentation is the source the hub-level reporting draws on, distinct from the citation and mention tracking that Profound and Ahrefs Brand Radar cover.

Entity and structured data

  • Schema AppThe hub FAQ directly asks which role schema markup plays in GEO; Schema App is where that markup gets authored, connected into an entity graph, and monitored for coverage, which is the family-wide answer this hub gives before Entity & Knowledge Graph Optimization and Technical AI Search Optimization each take a narrower piece of it.
  • Screaming FrogBefore any capability-level engagement starts, a Screaming Frog crawl establishes what the site's raw HTML actually exposes, since several FAQ answers on this hub and its children turn on that exact distinction between rendered and extracted content.
  • Google Search ConsoleSearch Console's index coverage and URL inspection reports are the reference point the technical capability compares an AI crawler's behavior against, since a page that Googlebot indexes cleanly but an AI crawler cannot parse is a different, narrower problem than a page neither can reach.

Content evidence and sourcing

  • Surfer SEOAI Citation Content Optimization and its inner-task pages lean on Surfer during drafting to check a passage's structure and coverage against pages that already earn citations, which is the content-side counterpart to the technical checks above.
  • Muck RackAI Search Authority & Citation Strategy's earned-media work starts here: Muck Rack's current-coverage view is what keeps a digital-PR brief aimed at a reporter who genuinely covers the topic today, since a stale media list produces pitches AI-cited sources never actually needed.
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