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AI Search Optimisation

Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO)

Search is changing. Your customers are no longer just typing short phrases into Google. They’re now using AI tools to ask longer questions, find recommendations, and make purchase decisions. By optimising your website for AI searches, we can help to increase your chances of being mentioned and recommended.

Why It Matters

Whether you like it or not, AI is the future of search. Tools like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Claude, and others are only going to become more popular as time goes on. These chatbots, along with other developments like voice search, mean that people can ask highly specific questions, and expect highly detailed answers.

That means your website needs to be equipped to answer those questions. It should be full of full of helpful information, explaining what you do, who you help, where you operate, why you’re worth trusting, and what makes you the right choice. Secondly, your website also needs to be easy for AI engines to navigate and understand. Even if you have the right information on your site, how easy is it for AI to find? Or even if it’s easy to find, is it clear and trustworthy enough to take back to the searcher with confidence? If not, AI is likely to recommend your competitors instead.

What It Achieves

Our AI Search Optimisation (AEO) services will help to:

  • Increase your chances of being recommended in AI
  • Answer important customer questions more clearly
  • Build trust with customers before they even contact you
  • Get an advantage over competitors in an ever-changing field
  • Strengthen your existing SEO performance in Google search

What We Do

Organise Structure

Just like with a human, how your website is structured can determine how easy it is to navigate and understand. Information should be easy to find, scan and interpret. We’ll optimise things like page layout, headings, sentence structure, internal links, and more.

Optimise Content

AI tools rely on clear, useful content. We help improve your information and wording so it answers the questions your customers are actually asking (all without sounding robotic or inauthentic).

Questions & Answers

Answer engines are built around questions, so FAQs play an important role in AEO. We can help identify the questions your customers are likely to ask, then write clear, useful answers that are easy for to understand and reference.

Structured Data

There’s a special kind of code called Schema that helps AI engines better understand your website content. It essentially organises information into clear categories, which removes the guesswork and gives AI more confidence to use your content in its answers.

Consistent Messaging

If different pages say different things, or if there are outdated details about your business elsewhere on the internet, AI can get confused. If it doesn’t know what to believe, it won’t recommend you. We can make sure all your information is consistent, everywhere.

Tracking & Reporting

AI search is always changing, and measuring performance is not as simple as traditional search engines, particularly when there are so many AI tools out there. That’s why we’ve invested in industry-leading reporting tools that allow us to track trends right from your monthly reports.

Recommended: AI Optimisation + Search Engine Optimisation

AEO works best when your SEO foundations are strong. While there are particular strategies that lend themselves more to either AEO, or traditional SEO, they both help each other out. That’s why we recommend adding both into your plan.

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AI Search Optimisation, also known as Answer Engine Optimisation or AEO, is the process of improving your website and online presence so AI-powered search tools can more easily understand, trust, and recommend your business. It focuses on making your content clear, useful, and well-structured, so your business has a better chance of appearing when potential customers ask questions in tools such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, or Google’s AI-powered search features. For New Zealand businesses, AEO is becoming an increasingly important part of being visible online.

There is no guaranteed way to make your business appear in an AI-generated answer, but you can significantly improve your chances. This starts with making it clear what your business does, who you help, where you operate and why customers should trust you. Your website also needs useful content that answers real customer questions, strong SEO foundations, a logical site structure, and consistent business information across the web. Dubzz Digital Marketing’s AI Search Optimisation service covers all of this, making your business easier for AI-powered search tools to find, understand and confidently recommend.

They are different, but many of the fundamentals do overlap. For example, things like helpful content, website authority, technical performance, and clearly structured information are important for both. However, AEO and SEO are different in two main areas. The first of these is which techniques typically produce the most cut-through. There are particular tasks that are important for both SEO and AEO, but are arguably more effective for one than for the other. The second key difference is how they are reported on. For SEO, we start with a list of simple search terms around 2-3 words. We then measure rankings that indicate where you show on a Google search results page for each term. For AEO however, people often ask more complex questions, so we’ll target longer search terms that may be closer to 10 words. Instead of just measuring rankings, we’ll also measure metrics like how often you are mentioned, how positively your brand is spoken of, how often AI provides a link to your website, and where AI is sourcing its information from. All of these are also sourced across a number of AI search engines, including ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. So, while they are different, AI Search Optimisation and Search Engine Optimisation do work closely together. We generally recommend combining AEO with SEO, rather than treating them as completely separate strategies.

AI Search Optimisation can involve improving your website content, page structure, FAQs, internal links, technical SEO and structured data, as well as ensuring that important information about your business is consistent across your wider online presence. It also involves researching the questions your potential customers are asking and identify opportunities to provide clearer, more useful answers. The exact work will depend on your website, industry, competitors, and current online visibility, rather than following the same checklist for every business.

AI search visibility can be measured, although it is still an evolving area and tracking is different from traditional Google rankings. Dubzz uses specialist reporting tools to monitor how your business appears across AI-powered search platforms and track visibility trends over time. Metrics include things like visibility percentage, brand sentiment, citations, links, and rankings. These are also monitored across multiple AI platforms, including ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, and AI Overviews. We can also monitor metrics directly on your website, including direct visits, leads, and sales from AI tools. This helps us to track whether your overall search visibility is improving, and whether that increased visibility is contributing to meaningful business results.

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At Dubzz Digital Marketing, we work with businesse At Dubzz Digital Marketing, we work with businesses of all sizes to:

✔️ Design and develop custom websites
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✔️ Provide digital marketing consulting and strategy development
✔️ Improve online performance with reporting, insights and optimisation
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✔️ Provide digital marketing training to upskill your team

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