GEO / AEO
When your customers ask AI, the source it cites has to be your website
More and more people ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity instead of searching on Google. Those assistants read websites and name their sources. We get yours ready to be one of them: readable, citable and with explicit permission for AI crawlers.
GEO and AEO: optimization for generative engines (the ones that write the answer) and for answer engines (the ones that resolve it without a list of results).
Agent-ready exam · rigolco.com
Cloudflare
100/100
Level 5 · “Agent-Native”
7 applicable checks, 7 passed
AI CRAWLERS WITH PERMISSION
15 AI crawlers allowed in the robots.txt, with Content Signals declaring the permitted use.
Traffic from AI is already here
This is not a prediction for two years from now. It is in the Analytics of sites we manage today.
People no longer only type into Google. They ask an assistant: “who sells this in Querétaro?”, “which company does this?”, “compare these two options for me”. The assistant goes out to read websites, works out the answer and names the sources it took it from. There are no ten positions to compete for: either you are one of the sources it cites, or you do not exist in that conversation.
The difference with Google is how they reach you. An assistant arrives with its own crawler, it has to get past the robots.txt, understand what each page is about and know who you are. If your site makes that hard, it cites someone else — even if your offer is better.
OUR OWN EVIDENCE · GA4
Top source
On vendingmex.com, chatgpt.com is the top source of users over the last 30 days: 121 users, against 35 from organic Google. The “AI Assistant” channel adds 111 sessions (+208.3%) in 7 days.
The screenshots, unedited
The figures on this page come from these three screens. VendingMex authorized publishing theirs: the full case study, here.
ANATOMY OF A WEBSITE AI CAN CITE
How we do it: a website AI models can read and cite
Six pieces our websites ship with as standard. None of them is a trick: they are standard ways of telling a machine what is here and what it may do with it.
01
A robots.txt that welcomes AI
Explicit permission for 15 AI crawlers —GPTBot and OAI-SearchBot from OpenAI, Anthropic’s ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, Amazonbot, Applebot-Extended, Meta-ExternalAgent…— plus Content Signals declaring what may be done with the content: ai-train, search, ai-input.
Permissions and usage declared, not left to chance
02
llms.txt
An index of the site written for language models, following the llmstxt.org standard: which pages exist, what each one is about and where it lives. It is regenerated on every build with all the pages and the whole blog, so it never goes stale.
Regenerated on every publish
03
Markdown for agents
Every page has a Markdown twin: the same text, no menus, no forms, no noise. When an AI agent asks for the page in Markdown (the Accept: text/markdown header), that is what it gets. A person’s browser still gets the usual HTML.
On rigolco.com: more than 130 twins
04
Discovery headers
An HTTP Link header announcing where the llms.txt and the sitemap are. The agent does not have to guess or crawl blind: we tell it in the server’s very first response.
llms.txt and sitemap, announced up front
05
schema.org structured data
Who the business is, in a format machines read without ambiguity: LocalBusiness/Organization with address, opening hours and service area, FAQPage on the landing pages and BlogPosting on the articles.
The record search engines and models read
06
The usual foundations
Semantic HTML, sitemap, RSS and a fast site, with performance budgets verified on every build. GEO rests on technical SEO: it does not replace it.
No healthy site, no GEO
CONTINUOUS AUDITING
An agent of ours reviews every site, and then reviews it again
We built our own agent that puts every site we manage through Cloudflare’s agent-ready exam (isitagentready.com) and adds our own checks: that the llms.txt exists and its links respond, that the 15 AI crawlers can really get in —tested by visiting with their User-Agent, not by reading the robots.txt— and that no header is blocking them by accident.
Real progression · August 2026
Before
Level 1 · Basic Web Presence
Today
Level 3 · Agent-Readable
All 9 sites we manage made that jump. rigolco.com scores 100/100 —level 5, “Agent-Native”— across the 7 checks that apply to business websites.
01
Scan
The agent walks the site with the same eyes as an AI crawler.
02
Report per site
Which check fails, why, and what has to change. No scores without an explanation.
03
Fixes
We apply them ourselves on the site’s code, reviewed before publishing.
04
Re-verification
After publishing, the exam runs again. If the score does not go up, it is not fixed.
What we don’t do
No tricks to fool the model
No hidden instructions, no invisible text to manipulate the answer. It is fragile, it gets caught, and it burns the very site it claims to defend.
No cloaking
The Markdown we serve to agents is the same content a person reads in the HTML. The wrapper changes, the message does not.
No blocking AI, and no giving it all away
Neither shutting the door nor leaving it open with no criteria: with Content Signals we declare what may be done with the content —training, search, using it as context— and what may not.
No selling GEO as separate magic
Without a healthy site underneath —fast, well structured, with content that genuinely answers— no amount of GEO is worth anything. That is why it goes alongside SEO, not instead of it.
Frequently asked questions about GEO/AEO
WHAT DOES IT COST?
It isn’t billed separately: it’s included
GEO/AEO optimization is included in our SEO plans and in every new website we build. It is not an add-on or a stray line in the quote: it is how we build websites and how we work on content.
These are the monthly plans, with their price. Whichever you choose includes the GEO work this page describes, at no extra cost.
Where it is included
SEO plans — the GEO work sits inside the monthly plan.
New websites — they ship with every piece in place from day one.
SEO PLANS · GEO INCLUDED
Choose your pace of growth.
A monthly subscription, no forced lock-in. More articles per month = more searches covered and faster results. Every plan includes an executive report.
Content
Kick off your rankings with steady optimized content and a monthly report. Ideal to get started.
- Keyword research with local intent
- Articles optimized for Google and AI search engines (GEO)
- On-page optimization in every delivery
- Technical health monitored (indexing, Core Web Vitals)
- Search Console + GA4 connected and measured
- Monthly executive report
Complete
The balance most people choose: double the content to cover more searches and speed up results.
- Everything in the Content plan
- Optimization of already-published content
- Strategic internal linking
- Recommendations prioritized by impact
Maximum
Maximum coverage and speed to dominate your local niche. For those who want to go all in.
- Everything in the Complete plan
- Topic cluster strategy (topical authority)
- Monthly competitor analysis
- Priority delivery and direct support
Prices plus VAT (IVA). No lock-in.
The same plans as on SEO, where you will find the full detail of what each one covers. The GEO/AEO work sits inside whichever plan you choose: it is not billed separately.
Before picking a plan, look at where your website stands today
The diagnosis includes the agent-ready check of your current site: what it is missing so AI can read it and cite you.
Data from Google Analytics 4 (vendingmex.com, screenshots taken on 26 August 2026, published with VendingMex’s permission), from Cloudflare’s agent-ready exam at isitagentready.com and from PageSpeed Insights, both for rigolco.com. The level progression covers the 9 websites we manage, measured in August 2026.