SparkStory Marketing

GEO (AI Search) + SEO

When Someone Asks AI Who To Hire, Your Name Should Be In The Answer.

Search split in two. People still Google you, and increasingly they ask ChatGPT, Gemini, or Google's AI for a recommendation. We build the foundation both reward: clear business information, real proof, and pages that answer the question directly.

Transparent pricesMonthly reporting on leadsNo contracts to escape

Straight Talk

Ranking Fifth On Page One Used To Be Fine. Now It Might Not Even Be Seen.

Your customer types a question. Google answers it at the top of the page with an AI summary, names two or three businesses, and the ten blue links you spent years climbing sit below the fold. Or your customer never opens Google at all and asks ChatGPT instead.

In both cases the machine is reading websites to decide whose name to say. It is looking for a business it can understand: what you do, where you do it, who you do it for, and whether anyone can verify you are good at it. Most small business sites give it almost nothing.

That is the whole job here. Not keyword tricks. Make your business the easiest one in your market for a machine to understand and the safest one for it to recommend.

What GEO Actually Means

Findable In Google. Quotable By AI. Reported In Leads.

Built To Be Quoted, Not Just Crawled

AI engines cite sources that answer a question cleanly. We build question-based pages from the things your customers actually ask, mark them up with schema so machines can parse them, and keep your business facts identical everywhere they appear. That is what earns a mention in an AI answer.

Local Search Where The Money Is

For a service business, most revenue comes from a fifty mile radius. Google Business Profile done properly, service and location pages that are real pages instead of doorway spam, reviews you actually ask for, and consistent listings. Boring, unglamorous, and the highest return work in search.

Monthly Content From One Interview

AI engines recommend businesses that keep answering questions. Once a month we interview you for forty five minutes and turn your answers into articles, video, and page updates. Your expertise, professionally written, published on your site. No outsourced blog filler.

What Every Engagement Includes

Standard On Every Plan. No Upsell Menu.

  • Full audit: rankings, technical health, and how AI assistants currently describe your business
  • Schema markup and site structure, the technical layer of GEO
  • Google Business Profile setup, cleanup, and ongoing posting
  • Service and location pages built from real customer questions
  • Review strategy: how to ask, when to ask, and where reviews need to land
  • Monthly founder interview turned into publishable content
  • Reporting on calls, forms, and booked work, not vanity traffic charts
  • Everything stays in your accounts and your name
The Whole Process, Up Front

Three Steps. No Mystery.

  1. Audit And Baseline

    We check how you show up in Google and in AI answers today, then write it down. You get the baseline in plain language, including the parts that are already fine and do not need our help.

  2. Fix The Foundation

    Site structure, speed, schema, service and location pages, Google Business Profile, and consistent business information everywhere it matters. This is the work that makes everything after it compound.

  3. Publish And Report Monthly

    One interview a month becomes content that answers real questions. Every month you get a report on leads and where they came from, and a short list of what we are doing next.

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Published prices · Reported in leads · No long term contract

Built By SparkStory

Search Work That Showed Up In Revenue.

Welcome Anchorage Tours

Local tour company · Anchorage

New site, SEO strategy, and a rebuilt Google Business Profile. Direct bookings rose 122 percent and revenue grew 80 percent in twelve months.

Arctic Rose Wellness

Women's health practice · Anchorage

Launched with day one search visibility in a competitive wellness market, and fully booked within three months.

Anchored In Hope

Nonprofit · national

GEO and SEO alongside paid media as one integrated campaign, which produced the biggest revenue months in the organization's history.

In Their Words
We've grown tenfold and increased our direct bookings by 200%. If you have the opportunity to work with this team, do it!
James B., Owner, Welcome Anchorage ToursJames B.Owner, Welcome Anchorage Tours

The Compounding Part

The Foundation Gets You Ready. The Content Gets You Recommended.

Fixing the foundation is a project. Getting named in AI answers is a habit. Businesses that keep publishing straight answers to real questions are the ones language models learn to trust and repeat. That is why our monthly packages exist, and why most clients start one the same month we finish the audit.

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Questions

The Questions People Actually Ask

What is GEO and how is it different from SEO?

SEO is about ranking in a list of links. GEO is about being understood and cited by AI systems like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google's AI Overviews when someone asks for a recommendation. The foundation overlaps heavily: clear structure, schema, real proof, and content that answers questions. GEO adds question-based pages and entity clarity so a language model can confidently say your name.

How long before I see results?

Local and technical fixes can move things in four to eight weeks. Content driven visibility, in both Google and AI answers, generally compounds over three to six months. Anyone promising page one in thirty days is either lying or spending your money on something that will not last.

Can you guarantee I will show up in ChatGPT?

No, and nobody can. What we can do is make your business the clearest and best documented option in your market, which is what these systems reward. We report on what we see, including when a change did not work.

Do I need a new website first?

Sometimes. If your current site has good bones, we work with it. If it is a brochure with no structure to read, the site is the bottleneck and we will tell you that on the call instead of billing you for content nobody can find.

Do I have to write the content?

No. We interview you for forty five focused minutes each month and write from that. It sounds like you because it is you. You approve everything before it publishes.

Who owns the work if we stop?

You do. The site, the content, the Google Business Profile, the analytics, all in your name and your accounts. Nothing is held hostage.

We're Not the Right Fit If...

  • You want cheap backlinks or a keyword trick. Those get penalized and they do not earn AI citations.
  • You want traffic charts instead of leads. We report on calls, forms, and booked work, and we will point out when traffic went up and revenue did not.
  • You need us to publish claims we cannot support. AI engines and customers both punish that eventually.

No Pitch Deck, Promise

Want To Know How AI Describes Your Business Right Now?

Book a free strategy call. We will look up your business in Google and in AI answers while we are on the call and tell you exactly what we see, whether you hire us or not.