AI Search Engine Optimization is an AI SEO agency founded by Phil Belleville, a search practitioner since 1995. We help businesses across the United States get ranked in Google and cited by AI engines such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, and we measure both.
What we do
Search has split in two. Google still sends most of the traffic, but a growing share of buying decisions now starts with a question to an AI assistant, and those assistants recommend a short list of businesses by name. A site that ranks but is never cited is missing half the market. A site that is cited but does not rank is missing the other half. Our work covers both halves and treats them as one job.
- AI SEO services. Rankings in Google for the searches that bring customers, built on real pages that answer real questions.
- Answer engine optimization. Making your business the answer that AI Overviews, ChatGPT and voice assistants give when someone asks for what you sell.
- Generative engine optimization. Earning citations in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Mode, and tracking them month by month.
- Local AI SEO. Map pack rankings and local AI answers for service businesses whose customers are nearby.
- AI SEO audits. A plain-English diagnosis of why a site is not ranking or not being cited, with the fixes in order.
- AI content optimization. Making existing pages rank and get quoted, without rewriting the business into something it is not.
- Industry and platform work for online stores and WordPress websites.
Who runs it
Phil Belleville founded the agency and leads every engagement. He has worked in search since 1995, founded Omaha SEO the same year, and has spent the last several years building and running the AI-assisted systems this agency uses to do the work. When you book a call, you talk to Phil. When you receive a plan, Phil wrote it. There is no account manager between you and the person doing the thinking.
Who we work with
Most of our clients are local service businesses: contractors, clinics, law firms, home services and specialty trades whose customers search for help nearby and increasingly ask an AI assistant who to call. We also work with online stores that need product and collection pages to appear in shopping searches and AI answers, business-to-business companies whose buyers research vendors through AI tools before they ever fill in a form, and owners of WordPress websites who want the site they already have to carry more of the load.
The common thread is a real business with something worth recommending. We do not take on work whose only purpose is to rank a page, because that work no longer holds, and we say so on the first call.
How an engagement runs
Work begins with an audit or a strategy call, so both sides know the starting point. From there most engagements run month to month: a written plan for the month, the work itself, and a report at the end that shows what was built, what moved in Google and in AI citations, and what comes next. There is a scheduled call each month and email whenever you need it. Audits are priced as a single project; monthly work is quoted in writing after the audit or the call, before anything starts. You can stop at the end of any month.
How we work
Every engagement starts with research, not with a template. We look at what actually ranks and gets cited for your searches, what those pages contain, and what your site would need to be the better answer. From that we build a plan in plain English that names the pages, the changes and the order of work, and we show you the evidence behind each recommendation.
We build for verification. AI engines and Google both trust businesses they can confirm from more than one source, so we make sure the facts about your business match everywhere: your site, your profiles, your reviews and the structured data that describes you to machines. Where a fact cannot be confirmed, it does not go on the page.
We measure what we promise. Rankings are tracked in Google. AI citations are counted per engine. Search Console tells us what people saw and clicked. Reports are written so that an owner can read them in ten minutes and know what happened, what it means and what comes next.
What we will not do
We do not build pages for cities where a business has no presence. We do not buy links or place them on networks. We do not put ratings in code that do not exist on the page. We do not publish content under names that are not real people. Each of those shortcuts has cost businesses their rankings, and none of them survive the way AI engines verify what they recommend.
Where we are
The agency is led from Omaha, Nebraska, and works with clients across the United States. Most engagements run entirely online, with a scheduled call each month and email in between. Calls are scheduled in Central time, with morning and afternoon options for clients on either coast. Write to hello@aisearchengineoptimization.com or book a free strategy call to start.
Facts at a glance
- Name: AI Search Engine Optimization
- Website: aisearchengineoptimization.com
- Founder: Phil Belleville, in search since 1995
- What we do: AI SEO, answer engine optimization, generative engine optimization, local AI SEO, audits and content optimization
- Area served: United States
- Email: hello@aisearchengineoptimization.com
- Led from: Omaha, Nebraska