--- title: "AI SEO agency" description: "AI SEO from ShoutRank: pages that rank for the query and can be quoted by answer engines, with rankings and citations kept in separate logs." canonical: https://shoutrank.com/ai-seo markdown: https://shoutrank.com/ai-seo.md --- # AI SEO agency AI SEO from ShoutRank: pages that rank for the query and can be quoted by answer engines, with rankings and citations kept in separate logs. AI SEO is SEO with a second job: the same URL has to earn the query and survive being lifted into an answer. A model does not invent your category from a slogan. It lifts a passage it can check, from a page it can fetch, about an entity the rest of the web describes the same way. That is the work. ShoutRank does not run an “AI content” stream that ignores rankings. [Technical SEO](https://shoutrank.com/technical-seo) still decides whether the URL exists. [On-page SEO](https://shoutrank.com/on-page-seo) still decides what the page says. AI SEO asks whether that page is the one an answer would choose. ShoutRank does not guarantee a ranking or a citation. ## The problem ### The brand ranks and is never named. Search Console looks fine on brand queries. In a category question, the answer names a competitor whose page states the comparison in one paragraph. ### The page is long and unsayable. Guides that define every term never take a side. A model skips them for a page that answers in the first lines. ### One dashboard pretends to cover every engine. A blended “AI visibility” score hides that you were cited in Perplexity and absent from the Google overview. ## How ShoutRank approaches it We assign the query to one URL, write the opening so a person and an answer can use it, and keep a prompt list that matches how buyers actually ask. Rankings stay in one table. Citations stay in another. Where the gap is a specific product, the work moves to [GEO](https://shoutrank.com/geo), [AIO](https://shoutrank.com/aio), or [citation building](https://shoutrank.com/ai-citation-building). AI SEO is the practice that holds those together. ## What the work includes ### Query and prompt map The searches you should rank for, and the questions an answer should be able to quote you on. ### Page openings The first lines rewritten so they answer, with the proof a reader can check. ### Entity notes Name, product, and category, checked against the pages that already describe you. ### Two logs Rankings on the assigned URLs, and named or missing on the prompt set. ## Process ### Discovery Read the category questions buyers ask a person, and the queries Search Console already shows. ### Audit Fetch the URLs that should answer, and note which openings a model could lift without inventing the offer. ### Strategy Split the work: what must rank, what must be quotable, and which engine is actually the gap. ### Implementation Ship the page and entity fixes with the team that publishes. ### Monitoring Re-ask the prompt set on a fixed day. Record named, linked, or missing, per engine. ### Optimization Rewrite passages that rank and are never quoted, or are quoted and misstate the offer. ### Reporting One review: the ranking table, the citation table, and what changed on the page. ## Why ShoutRank ### Two logs, on purpose A citation is not a ranking. Reporting them as one number makes both harder to act on. ### The page still has to be true We do not add instructions aimed at a model. The opening has to help a person who clicked. ### English, beside your publishers Praneet Thakur founded ShoutRank. The writing happens beside the team that ships the site, in English. ## How success is measured Impressions and the landing URL on the assigned query set. Whether each prompt names you, links you, or names someone else. Passages that were rewritten, and whether the next read quotes the new line or the old one. A named client result is published when that client clears the figure. Until then the report is the measurement. ## Questions ### How is AI SEO different from AEO? AEO is the citation craft: the passage, the entity, the prompt. AI SEO is the program that keeps that craft tied to rankings, technical access, and the URL that should own the query. ### Will you publish AI-written pages at volume? No. A page is added when a query needs an owner. Volume without an assignment is how sites start competing with themselves. ### Which engines do you include? Google Search, AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Copilot, each on its own log. AI agents are a separate log. We do not invent a score for a product we did not read. ## Related - [AEO](https://shoutrank.com/aeo): The citation layer, described on its own. - [GEO](https://shoutrank.com/geo): Generative chat, without the Google overview. - [Citation building](https://shoutrank.com/ai-citation-building): When the missing piece is a source that already gets quoted.