ai seo services sydney
AI SEO services that get you quoted,
not just ranked.
When a customer asks ChatGPT, Perplexity or Google's AI Overview who to call, the engine names two or three businesses and stops. Our AI SEO service makes yours one the engines can read, trust and quote. Priced on the page from $390 +GST a month ($429 incl GST), month to month, no lock-in.
No citation guarantees. Nobody controls whether an AI engine names you; anyone who promises it is not telling you the truth.
the honest part first
Most AI SEO is ordinary SEO
with a new label on the invoice.
We said this in our guides and we will not contradict it here. Strip the acronyms off answer engine optimisation, generative engine optimisation, AI search optimisation and LLM SEO, and most of it is what a good SEO already did: a fast, crawlable site, pages that answer real questions, details that agree everywhere, a genuine reputation off your own site. Charging separately for SEO and AEO is charging twice.
This is the commercial page: what we do, what it costs, what you get. For the deeper reads, AEO, GEO and AIO explained untangles the jargon, how to show up in AI search gives you the free do-it-yourself mechanics, and why AI search matters now makes the case for acting this year.
What are AI SEO services?
AI SEO services are the work of making a business easy for AI search engines to read, trust and quote: AI crawlers let in, structured data that states plainly what the business is, pages that answer real customer questions in a paragraph an engine can lift whole, business details that agree everywhere, and a presence on the directories and review sites the engines already cite.
same job, different target
What is genuinely different
from the SEO you already pay for.
A few things are new enough to name; the rest is the same job aimed at a different target. Check any quote against this split.
| The job | Ordinary SEO | AI search work | New? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crawler access | Googlebot allowed in | GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot and ClaudeBot allowed in too. A blocked bot cannot quote you. | Yes, five minutes |
| Structured data | Schema for rich results | Schema for entity clarity: one unambiguous statement of who, where and what, matching your Google Business Profile. | Partly |
| Page writing | Keywords mapped to pages | Answer-first paragraphs of forty to sixty words an engine can lift whole, under question-shaped headings. | Yes |
llms.txt | Nothing | A plain-text map of your best pages at the domain root; read by non-Google engines, not a Google ranking signal. | Yes, and small |
| Off-site reputation | Links and citations | Being the source the engines cite: accurate listings, real reviews, mentions where they already read. | Same job, more weight |
| Measurement | Rankings and clicks | A recorded baseline of what five engines say about you, re-asked monthly. | Yes, and imperfect |
If an "AI SEO" quote is mostly column two, it is a relabelled retainer. Our SEO service is column two; this page is column three; one plan, same people.
what we actually do
The work, in the order we do it.
Record the baseline
Before anything changes we ask ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Google's AI Overview your customers' questions and record who is named and why. Without it nobody can tell later whether anything moved.
Open the doors
We check
robots.txtand any security plugin for blocked AI crawlers, add anllms.txtat your domain root, and confirm pages arrive as real HTML, not an empty shell the scripts fill in later.Make the entity clear
Structured data stating who you are, where you are, what you do and what you charge, matched with your Google Business Profile and the directories that carry you. Engines cross-check; contradictions get dropped.
Reshape the money pages
The pages that earn enquiries get an answer-first paragraph, headings written the way people ask, and a real FAQ. One page for humans, structured for a machine; never a separate "AI version", which Google's spam policies call scaled content abuse.
Become the source
Accurate listings where your trade is listed, reviews collected properly (our own RankByReviews tool does the asking), honest mentions where the engines already look. About half of AI visibility sits off your website.
Report what the engines say
Each month we re-run the baseline questions and report in plain words: named, not named, named with wrong details. No proprietary score.
what it costs
AI SEO services priced
with the numbers on the page.
There is no separate AI retainer: the AI search groundwork is built into every monthly plan, because it is the same site and engineers. Prices are +GST, month to month, no setup fee, no lock-in, with the inc-GST figure beside each.
| Plan | Per month +GST | Per month incl GST | AI search work included |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $390 | $429 | AI-visibility audit; schema, llms.txt, crawler access; Google Business Profile basics; key pages optimised; monthly report. |
| Local + AI Visibility | $779 | $856.90 | Everything in Starter, plus fixes shipped, Google Business Profile managed, suburb and service pages with local schema, monthly AI-visibility report across five engines. |
| Growth | $1,995 | $2,194.50 | Everything in Local + AI Visibility, plus three to four articles a month, competitor analysis, link and citation building, Core Web Vitals work, fortnightly reporting. |
| Authority | $2,595 | $2,854.50 | Everything in Growth, plus managed Google Ads, more content, conversion work, weekly cadence with a dedicated strategist. |
| Dominance | from $5,400 | from $5,940 | Everything in Authority across multiple locations or brands, larger ad budget, custom dashboard, quarterly strategy. Scoped to your market. |
| AI Search Audit | $890 one-off | $979 | What Google and the AI engines see on your site today, with a prioritised fix list any developer can action. |
Prices checked 2 September 2026. Full inclusions and online signup on the SEO & AI search packages page; torn between tiers, which plan is right for you picks one honestly, even when it is the cheaper one. Market bands: how much does SEO cost in Australia.
If the site itself is the problem, we say so first: AI-ready rebuilds start at $690 +GST ($759 incl GST), every old URL redirected.
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What we will not promise,
because nobody can.
A supplier who skips these is new to the work or hoping you are.
No citation guarantees
Whether ChatGPT names you depends on who asked, how they phrased it and what the model did that day. We can make you the easiest business in your field to quote; nobody can make an engine quote you.
Schema does not buy citations
It earns rich results and helps engines understand what you are. Ahrefs tracked 1,885 pages that added JSON-LD against matched controls and found no lift in AI citations, and Google's documentation (checked July 2026) says no special structured data or AI text file is required for its AI features.
AI traffic is still small
Referrals from AI tools are fractions of a percent of visits for most businesses. The real argument is the click penalty on the Google traffic you already have, and the trend.
No proprietary score
An "AI visibility index" only one agency can calculate can go up whenever that agency needs it to. We report the engines' own answers against the baseline we took first.
a real result
Two Google impressions in 90 days,
then first in Google's AI answer.
ReFigure Chiropractic in Mosman had 133 five-star reviews and a website Google showed searchers twice in 90 days. We rebuilt it from 5 pages to 44 with structured data on every page. Six weeks after the 6 July 2026 launch, Search Console showed 3,054 impressions and #1 for "chiro near me", and Google's AI Overview for "who is the best chiro in mosman" named ReFigure first, cited from the clinic's own pages.
2 → 3,054 impressions
44 days after launch, against two in the prior 90.
Named first by the AI answer
Clean schema and compliant copy, quoted accurately by Google's AI Overview.
$800 a month → $0
Google Ads switched off; enquiries now come from organic search and the AI answer.
Google Search Console, 6 July to 18 August 2026; AI answer recreated from the live result, August 2026. One clinic's six weeks, shared with permission: a data point, not a promise. Full detail in the ReFigure case study; more on our work.
why us
The team that builds the site
does the AI search work.
Most AI SEO is sold by agencies that cannot touch your code, so fixes wait on a developer who never gets to them. We design, build and host the sites we optimise, so crawler access, schema and page structure ship the week we find the problem. Alien Web Design is the web studio inside Alien IT Solutions, Sydney, with 18 years of IT, networks and web behind every build. Our own site runs what we sell: AI crawlers allowed in, an llms.txt at the root, structured data on every page.
Local service business? Local SEO in Sydney covers the map pack, and SEO consultant Sydney sets out the first 90 days of any plan.
straight answers
AI SEO questions.
What are AI SEO services?
AI SEO services make a business easy for AI search engines to read, trust and quote: AI crawler access, structured data that states plainly who you are and what you do, answer-first pages an engine can lift whole, consistent business details, and a footprint on the directories and review sites the engines already cite. Most of it is ordinary SEO done properly.
Is AI SEO different from normal SEO?
Mostly no. A fast, crawlable site with clear content wins at both. SEO wants the click from a list; AI search work wants your words inside the answer. The genuinely new parts are AI crawler access, an llms.txt file, answer-first formatting, and measuring what the engines say rather than where you rank. Nobody should charge you twice for the overlap.
How much do AI SEO services cost in Australia?
Specialist agencies priced standalone AEO and GEO retainers at $2,000 to $5,000 a month and AI visibility audits at $1,500 to $3,500 on published Australian rate cards we checked in July 2026; those rarely state GST. Our plans include the AI search work from $390 +GST a month ($429 incl GST); the one-off AI Search Audit is $890 +GST ($979 incl GST). Month to month, no lock-in.
Can you guarantee my business will appear in ChatGPT?
No, and nobody can. Whether an AI engine names you depends on who asked, how they phrased it and what the model did that day, and engines change how they pick sources without notice. We can make you the easiest business in your field to quote, record a baseline, and show you each month what the engines say. A guaranteed citation is a promise about something the seller does not control.
How do you measure AI search visibility?
We ask the engines. Before any work starts we put your customers' questions to ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Google's AI Overview and record who is named and what is said. Each month we ask again and report the change in plain words: named, not named, or named with wrong details. No proprietary score.
Do I need a separate AEO or GEO retainer on top of SEO?
No. Answer engine optimisation and generative engine optimisation describe the same work from two directions, and most of it overlaps with doing SEO properly. We build the AI search groundwork into every monthly plan instead of selling it as an add-on. To see where you stand first, the one-off AI Search Audit gives you a fix list you can use with anyone.
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