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Help the right customers find your WordPress website in Google and AI search, see your value, and become qualified inquiries. Traditional SEO and AI SEO, delivered by one team on the site you own, for the search engines and the answer engines alike.
Powered by our proprietary Rank Intelligence Engine: SEO experience dating to 1995, specialized AI capabilities, and WordPress implementation. Led by Phil Belleville.
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GOOGLE SEARCH
Be found.Show up for the searches that matter.AI ANSWERS
Be considered.Help people discover and understand you.YOUR WEBSITE
Be chosen.Give the right prospect a reason to act.Since 1995Experience in search
Founder ledWork directly with Phil
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How we help
Three ways to start. One goal: turn relevant searches, in traditional search engines and in AI generated answers, into qualified opportunities.
Build stronger visibility for the services you sell and the customers you want to reach, with SEO services built on traditional SEO fundamentals and AI search engine optimization measured against the pages that rank and the answers that cite them.
Make your business easier to understand, evaluate, and reference across AI search experiences, so your brand appears when ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini or Google’s AI is asked for a recommendation, in AI Overviews and in AI powered search of every kind.
Find what is holding your website back in Google rankings and in AI visibility, and get a practical plan for what to fix first, whether the fix is traditional SEO or the AI visibility work an answer engine rewards.
Our AI SEO work includes answer engine optimization (AEO) and generative engine optimization (GEO). The same team handles the traditional SEO underneath it, because the AI engines pull from the same pages Google ranks, and our SEO services and AI SEO are scoped together.
Selected client work
AUTOMOTIVE DETAILING · SURREY AND HAMPSHIRE, ENGLAND
Same 123 map-pack terms, seven-day averages, five weeks apart. Only the three positions Google shows in its map results are counted.
TELECOM CONSULTING · NATIONWIDE
Twelve of the 30 sit in the top three and six are first. Property owners search from every state, so these are national organic results.
MANUFACTURING · NATIONWIDE
Same 342 product-family terms, seven-day averages. No Google Business Profile, no map pack: every position is organic and national, won while a negative-SEO attack was being disavowed.
LAW · BOZEMAN, MONTANA
Same 70 map-pack terms, seven-day averages, still holding 43 and 17 in the week of Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026.
Four of the eight records in our published case studies, with the dates and the tracked sets. Lower average position is better. These are Google ranking results; they do not measure AI citations or lead volume.
Our proprietary system
Experience since 1995. Specialized AI capabilities. One connected system for WordPress growth.
Rank Intelligence Engine brings together our specialized proprietary AI workflows with research, technical SEO, content, design, coding, and WordPress implementation. Phil’s experience informs the analysis and decisions throughout, including which AI tools earn a place in the work and which do not. Every capability works toward the same business objectives: stronger visibility in traditional search and in AI search, more qualified leads, and better return on your website investment.
Understand how customers search, in Google and in AI powered search, why competitors attract attention in the AI search results, and where your business has room to grow.
Identify the weaknesses limiting discovery, credibility, clicks, and inquiries across your website, from traditional SEO faults to the gaps that keep the AI models from naming you.
Get a clear plan that connects search opportunities, stronger positioning, topical authority, Google AI Mode and AI Overviews visibility, and your commercial priorities.
Bring the plan into your WordPress website, verify the changes, and review search rankings, AI visibility and inquiry performance together.
Analysis, content, design, coding, implementation, and verification—all inside Rank Intelligence Engine.
Find your starting pointWhat the system examines
A website now has several judges: Google’s rankings, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Copilot. Each weighs the same evidence differently, and the large language models behind the assistants change how they weigh it with every update. Rank Intelligence Engine examines all of it, against the competitors that already rank, and then makes the changes. It is the AI search approach a conventional SEO firm does not have, and the traditional SEO discipline an AI tool does not have. Google’s AI, ChatGPT and the rest are AI systems with their own habits, and each is checked on its own.
One page, one purpose. Every search your business could win is measured for demand, difficulty and buyer intent, then assigned to exactly one page. No two pages on your site ever compete for the same search, in Google or in the AI search results.
What the winners are doing. The pages already ranking for your terms are measured page by page: length, structure, evidence, which AI platforms they name, who links to them, and which of them AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity already cite. That becomes the bar your pages must clear.
Google’s own record of your business. The public Knowledge Graph entry that ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews draw on when deciding whether you exist: pulled for you and for each competitor, gap by gap. It is the entity optimization most SEO services never touch, and the first thing Google’s AI checks.
Every indexed page, site-wide. Crawl and index state, template errors, content substance, over-optimization, structured data and AI crawler access, scored against the signals Google is known to weigh. The technical SEO that traditional search engines require is also what lets the AI engines read the site at all, and it is where most SEO services stop.
Whether the engines know who you are. Ten dimensions of entity clarity plus the expertise and trust proof a site can actually show. AI engines name businesses they can resolve and verify; the scan shows exactly what is missing and what keeps your brand out of AI generated answers.
Where your own pages fight each other. Pages switching in and out of Google for the same search, read from daily ranking history, and the eighteen-point check of how authority flows through your internal links. Fixing the internal links is the fastest gain in traditional SEO, and it costs nothing outside the site.
The order of the work. Each finding weighed by what it costs you today and what it depends on, so an entity fix comes before a new page, a link repair before new content, and the traditional SEO foundation before any AI search work.
The block an AI will quote. For every money page, the passage that answers the buyer’s question in a form Perplexity, ChatGPT or AI Overviews can lift whole, with a matching entry in the page’s structured data. It is what turns AI visibility into an AI citation, AI Overview citations and AI referral traffic, on Google’s AI features and on every answer engine your buyers ask.
Where the engines confirm you. Twenty or more off-site targets, from best-of lists to review platforms, with a ninety-day calendar, because AI systems check other sources before they name a business. Authority building and digital PR have always mattered in SEO; in the AI era they decide whether you are recommended at all.
Pages built to the bar. Money pages and supporting clusters built from the competitor field and the buyer language, with the copy, FAQs, structured data, internal links and images, and every title checked so nothing competes with itself. Topical authority is built page by page, in the order that lifts the pages that make money.
Installed and verified, not recommended. Links, schema and copy changes go onto your WordPress site and are checked live before they are reported as done, by the same in house team that did the analysis.
Measured by platform, question and date. Google rankings tracked daily on the searches the map assigned; AI citations counted per platform for you and your competitors, baselined before the work and re-measured after it. AI Mode visibility, Google AI Overviews and the assistants are reported as separate lines, because a result on one is not a result on all, and Google’s AI Mode is checked on its own.
Every capability is described in full on the Rank Intelligence Engine page: what is examined, what changes on your site, and what you receive. It is one system for SEO services and AI SEO, not two vendors, and it treats an answer engine as seriously as a search engine.
What has changed
Search engine optimization built a page for one judge. Today a buyer may never see a results page at all: they ask ChatGPT or Perplexity for a shortlist, or read the AI Overview Google writes above the results. Traditional SEO focuses on the position; AI SEO has to earn the citation inside the AI generated responses as well. The evidence those systems weigh overlaps with classic ranking signals, but it is not the same, and it is measured differently, which is why AI SEO results are reported per platform.
| Question | Search engine optimization | AI SEO with Rank Intelligence Engine |
|---|---|---|
| Who judges the page | Google’s ranking systems | Google’s rankings plus AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Copilot |
| What visibility means | A position on a results page | A position, a citation in an AI answer, and a place on the shortlist an assistant recommends |
| What the business must be | A relevant page | A clearly identified entity the engines can verify across your site, your profiles and Google’s Knowledge Graph |
| What the content must contain | Keywords in the right places | Extractable answer blocks with specific, verifiable claims, twinned in structured data |
| What proves expertise | Links from other sites | First-hand experience and named expertise on the page, plus mentions on the sources AI systems consult |
| How topical depth is judged | Page by page | Site-wide, against what the engines associate with an authority in your niche |
| What structured data is for | Rich results | Machine-readable parity with every fact on the page, so an AI can assemble the business as one entity |
| What over-use costs | A ranking penalty | A ranking penalty and exclusion from AI generated answers, where keyword stuffing is the one tactic measured to perform worse than doing nothing |
| What is measured | Rankings and traffic | Rankings, plus citations per AI platform, baselined and re-measured with the question and the date |
| What the engagement produces | A report and recommendations | A WordPress site that changed, verified live, and the evidence that it did |
Comparing providers on this basis? Read what to compare before you hire.
A direct working relationship
The person on your strategy call is the person leading your engagement.
Phil’s daily SEO work since 1995 shapes the specialized skills and judgment inside Rank Intelligence Engine. He leads your engagement, connects findings to business priorities, and oversees the work on your WordPress website. A strong AI SEO agency is still built on search fundamentals; the AI search work sits on top of traditional Google SEO, not in place of it.
Based in Omaha. Working with businesses across the United States.
Before you hire anyone
Six measurements separate an AI SEO agency that changes how AI answers and Google treat your business from an SEO company that has added the word AI to an old service page: citations per AI platform, share of answers against named competitors, presence in Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, the changes installed on the website itself, the third-party authority it builds, and the inquiries that result. Ask for all six before you sign. AI Search Engine Optimization takes the first three for its own site every week, across 26 buyer and research questions on six AI platforms, and publishes what it finds. One warning: an agency whose AI means it uses AI to write your articles is selling a different service.
How many times your pages are cited as a source when ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot and Google AI Overviews and AI Mode answer the questions your buyers ask. Ask for a dated baseline with the question list and the platform behind each count, taken before any work starts. An agency that cannot produce one has no way to show you what changed.
What a real answer looks like: a table dated to the day, one row per question, one column per platform, with the cited page named in each cell. Ours, published as it moves: eight citations of this site on September 13, 2026, on two pages, and twelve on three pages three days later.
Of the AI answers to a buyer question in your market, how many name your business and how many name each competitor. Ask for the competitor set, the question list and the platforms, because a share is only meaningful against the businesses the AI actually recommends instead of you today.
What a real answer looks like: the count for you and for every competitor, split by platform and dated. In the seven days to September 16, 2026, the three most-named agencies in this market appeared in 53, 42 and 35 answers, across a field of eighteen the answers named. That is the gap this firm measures against, including where it sits in it.
Google AI results are a separate contest from the ten organic listings, and a page can rank on page one while never appearing in the AI Overview above it. Ask which of your money pages appear in the AI Overview for their own searches, and which competitor pages hold those slots instead.
What a real answer looks like: a list of your money pages with, for each, whether the AI Overview for its own search includes it and who holds the slot if not. Checked on September 16, 2026: the Google AI Overview for the search this page targets cited three agency service pages. That is the slot to earn, and the first thing to ask about.
One organization record sitewide, structured data that mirrors the visible text, answer blocks the AI engines can lift, a FAQ layer on every money page, and internal links installed with exact anchors. Ask to see the list of changes installed on a client site, not the list of recommendations delivered. The two documents look alike and cost the same; only one moves a ranking.
What a real answer looks like: a change log with the page, the element, the text before and after, and the date each change was verified on the live site. From the records of AI Search Engine Optimization: 116 internal link changes installed across 77 pages of one client site in a single pass, August 2026, each with its exact anchor and placement.
AI assistants assemble their recommendations largely from third-party lists, review platforms, editorial coverage, community threads and video, not from a business’s own website. Ask which placements the agency will earn for you, on which sites, and how each is chosen.
What a real answer looks like: the named sites the plan targets, each chosen because the AI already cites it for your buyer questions, with the number of times it was cited beside it. Measured on September 16, 2026 across 26 questions: Google’s own documentation appeared in 21.7 percent of answers and YouTube in 16.7 percent, ahead of every SEO publication, with a review directory at 9.7 percent and Reddit at 8 percent. A plan with no off-site lane loses the recommendation questions no matter how good the site becomes.
The visitors who arrive from an AI answer, the prospects who say an AI assistant sent them, and the qualified inquiries that follow. Ask whether the agency reports the sessions arriving from each AI platform and asks every new inquiry how they found you. A visibility score that never reaches an inquiry count is a vanity metric.
What a real answer looks like: sessions from each AI platform per month from the analytics referral report, an inquiry form that asks every prospect which AI assistant sent them, by name, and the qualified inquiries that came through each. Both are running on this site now; ask to see them on any site the agency claims to have moved.
A 30-minute strategy call with Phil. Bring the site; leave with the six measurements to expect from anyone you hire.
Before we talk
Choosing an AI SEO agency starts with understanding how the work fits your business, and how the best AI SEO agencies differ from an ordinary SEO firm or an AI tool. The questions below cover pricing, the timeline, and what an AI citation is worth.
An AI SEO agency makes a business visible where buyers now look: Google’s results, the AI Overviews and AI Mode answers Google writes above them, and the assistants people ask directly, such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Copilot. The work covers classic search ranking, the traditional SEO that still decides most visits, and the additional evidence AI systems weigh before they cite or recommend a business: a clearly identified entity, verifiable expertise, extractable answers, and mentions on the sources those systems consult. We help with both halves; a conventional SEO firm stops at the first, and an AI tool cannot do either on its own.
We help businesses improve Google visibility and AI visibility and give more of the right prospects a reason to inquire. SEO services for WordPress, AI SEO, audits, stronger search presentation, conversion rate optimization, and WordPress implementation are all delivered through our proprietary Rank Intelligence Engine, so the traditional SEO and the AI search work are one plan.
Rank Intelligence Engine is our complete proprietary system for research, analysis, strategy, content, design, implementation, and verification. Phil Belleville’s daily SEO experience since 1995 informs its specialized AI skills and the judgment behind the work. Its purpose is to connect better visibility, in Google and in Google’s AI features, with qualified leads and business return, and to keep the SEO services and the AI SEO inside one system rather than two, so the AI systems and the search engines are answered by the same site.
Yes. WordPress is our focus and specialty. Rank Intelligence Engine connects the diagnosis to professional content, design, coding, technical SEO and implementation on your website, from the internal links to the structured data the AI models read, and the SEO services are delivered by the people who did the analysis. Phil leads the engagement, and you receive a defined scope before paid work begins.
A citation means the AI system used a page from your site as a source for its answer and linked to it, which is where AI referral traffic comes from. A recommendation means it named your business as an option when someone asked for one. Citation depends on the page: a specific, extractable answer the system can lift. Recommendation depends on the entity: whether the system can identify your business, verify it, and find it mentioned on other sources it trusts. Rank Intelligence Engine works on both, and reports them separately by platform, including Google’s AI Mode, Google’s AI Overviews and the assistants, so LLM visibility is never one blended number. In AI powered search the large language models decide, and they are measured one by one.
We review search visibility, search-result click-through, sampled AI mentions and citations, and inquiry performance where tracking is available. Qualified leads and customer value provide the business context. AI generated answers vary, so reporting records the platform, question, date, and other relevant conditions, and it keeps Google’s AI results apart from the traditional search results so you can see which is moving, and whether your brand appears in the AI generated search experiences your buyers actually use.
On-site changes are installed and verified within the first weeks of an engagement. Google typically begins to reflect substantive page changes within a few weeks of re-crawling, and competitive rankings build over three to six months, the same timeline traditional SEO has always run on. AI generated responses depend on the platform: Google AI Overviews follow Google’s index closely, while assistants such as ChatGPT and Perplexity re-read sources on their own schedules and weigh off-site mentions that take time to accumulate. We baseline both before the work starts and re-measure on a fixed cadence, so you see the direction of change in Google rankings and in AI discovery rather than a promise.
Choose an audit when you need a clear diagnosis and priorities before committing to implementation. Ongoing SEO services and AI SEO include agreed implementation and continued review, and the AI SEO cost is set by the scope of the site and the market, not by a package. The free 30-minute call with Phil helps identify the right starting point. Audits are individual projects; ongoing services run month to month, with pricing agreed in writing.
The best AI SEO agency for your business is the one that can show you six measurements for your own market before you sign: citations per AI platform, share of answers against named competitors, presence in Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, the changes it installed on a client site, the third-party placements it earned, and the inquiries that followed. Rank Intelligence Engine is built to produce all six on the website you own, with Phil Belleville deciding the priorities personally.
It depends on three things a strategy call establishes: how many money pages the site has, how strong the businesses the AI already names are, and how much third-party placement work the recommendation questions need. AI Search Engine Optimization sets the scope and the price in writing after the call, before any paid work begins, with review points in the scope. A number quoted before anyone has looked at the site and its competitors is a guess.
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Your next move
A free, 30-minute strategy call with Phil about your website, your goals, and your next priorities in Google search, AI SEO and AI visibility.
