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GEO agency in St. Catharines

More than 200 clients trust us.

GEO (generative engine optimization) means making sure AI assistants know your company well enough to recommend it. If ChatGPT never names you, the person asking never hears of you. We help businesses in St. Catharines appear in answers from ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google.

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Featured in the Spanish press

  • Cadena SER
  • COPE
  • El Español
  • La Opinión de Murcia
  • La 7 Televisión Región de Murcia
  • Murcia Plaza
  • Murcia Diario
  • Murcia.com
  • Murcia Economía
  • Élite Murcia
  • Madridiario
  • El Periódico de Ceuta
200+
clients have trusted our team
4
assistants where we track your brand: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI
24h
is our usual time to get back to you
34
client reviews on Google, averaging five stars

Who we work with

  • PcComponentes
  • Locking
  • Destaco.es
  • PentestingTeam
  • Legitec
  • Mudanzas Grupo Unión

More than 200 companies have handed us their marketing so far.

GEO for businesses in St. Catharines: how we count progress

Progress shows when you compare answers. Today AI recommends other companies. The aim is that a few months from now it recommends you.

2

routes need looking after: what AI reads live and what it already knows about your brand.

How AI answers

3

checks on each question: does it name you, who does it put first and where does it get that from.

What we measure

1

time a month we repeat the same questions in each engine and compare them with the month before.

Follow-up

4

answer engines: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and the AI results in Google. We work on your brand in all of them.

Where your customers ask

ChatGPTGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI

St. CatharinesCanadaWorldwide

GEO for businesses in St. Catharines

St. Catharines is home to around 140,000 people. It is part of Ontario. There are 26 cities in Ontario with their own page here.

For smaller cities AI often has little to go on and ends up recommending companies from the nearest big city. Giving it well-organized information is how you get it to name you instead. Murcia, where our office is, lies about 6,400 km (4,000 miles) away, usually 6 hours ahead of St. Catharines. We arrange calls at a time that suits you. If your business is in Oakville, Hamilton or Burlington, there is a page like this one for each.

Population
About 140,000
Province
Ontario
Time difference with our office
Murcia is usually 6 hours ahead
Distance to our office
6,400 km (4,000 miles)

Population figures: GeoNames.

Map of the area where we do AI search optimization for businesses in St. Catharines
St. Catharines

GEO, sector by sector

  • Dental practices

    When someone asks ChatGPT for a dentist they can trust in St. Catharines, the answer comes from reviews, health directories and your own website. We put all three in order.

  • Accountancy firms

    AI answers tax questions every day and needs sources it can rely on. A firm that explains each step well can be one of the sources it cites.

  • Therapists

    Many people talk to AI first. Whether your practice appears when it suggests professional help depends on your profiles, your reviews and how you present yourself on your site.

Our GEO work for businesses in St. Catharines, part by part

The first job is to listen. We put the questions your customer would ask to each assistant and note which companies come up and which pages it uses as sources.

  1. 01

    AI visibility audit

    Dozens of real questions from your sector, put to each engine. The result is a table showing where you appear and, where you do not, which competitors are there instead.

  2. 02

    Question research

    We collect the doubts your customer settles before buying: prices, comparisons, who to go to. Those are the questions you want to appear in.

  3. 03

    Content AI can cite

    AI cites what it can summarize without getting it wrong. We turn your pages into direct answers, with your own figures and the name of whoever stands behind them.

  4. 04

    Structured data and brand

    We make it clear who you are, what you do and where. It sounds minor, but it is the most common fault when an assistant describes a company badly.

  5. 05

    Mentions in the sources AI consults

    We work to get your brand talked about in the media, comparison articles and directories that engines draw their recommendations from.

  6. 06

    Tracking mentions and citations

    We measure the visits that come from ChatGPT, Perplexity or Gemini and what those visitors do on your website, to find out whether the mentions bring customers.

What it takes to be named by AI

A page of Google results lists around ten sites. An AI answer has room for a handful of companies. That holds for a question about a dentist in St. Catharines and for one about an accountant for small businesses in St. Catharines.

  1. We see which answers your brand is missing from.
  2. We publish the content AI needs in order to name you.
  3. We correct what the engines have wrong about you.
  4. We add mentions in reliable sources.

Illustrative simulation. AI answers change every time a question is asked and nobody can guarantee a specific recommendation.

From the first analysis to the first mention

  1. 01

    Starting picture

    We put your customer's questions to each assistant and save the answers.

  2. 02

    Status report

    You receive a document with the answers, the sources and the actions we propose, from most to least important.

  3. 03

    Down to work

    We rewrite pages, put your brand data in order and seek mentions in reliable sources. Whatever carries most weight goes first.

  4. 04

    Measurement

    Same questions, same method, every month. We show you the new answers next to the old ones.

Client reviews on Google

5.0

34 Google reviews

“Friendly, effective and quick to sort things out. 100% recommended.”
Marta G. · Google review, translated from Spanish
“Without a doubt the best marketing decision I have made.”
Imelda · Google review, translated from Spanish
“I am really happy with the guys at Vértigo, Jesús and Raúl.”
NP · Google review, translated from Spanish

Common questions about AI search optimization in St. Catharines

Can't find your question? Write to us and we'll reply within 24 hours.

Talk to the team
How much does GEO cost in St. Catharines?

There is no single fee. A brand that AI already talks about needs less work than one starting from nothing, and a crowded sector calls for more content and more mentions. After the audit we send you a fixed quote and you decide, with no obligation.

What is the difference between GEO and SEO?

SEO earns you a position in a list and the click that follows. GEO earns you a mention inside an answer, sometimes with a link and sometimes without. Much of the groundwork is shared, but GEO puts more weight on what third-party sources say about your company.

Can you do GEO for a business in St. Catharines from Spain?

Yes. Nothing in this work requires a visit. We run the questions as a customer in St. Catharines would ask them, meet you by video call in English and send a monthly report. Between reports you can write to the team whenever you need to.

Which AI engines do you cover?

We track four as standard: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google's AI answers. They do not all work the same way, so we test each one separately and never assume one result applies to the others. Copilot or any other assistant can be added if your customers use it.

Do I need SEO for GEO to work?

It helps a great deal. Several assistants run a web search before they answer, so a website that ranks well in Google or Bing has more chance of being cited. That is why we usually work on the two together.

Is GEO the same as AI SEO or AEO?

More or less. GEO, AI SEO, AI search optimization and AEO (answer engine optimization) are names for the same aim: being cited and recommended in answers written by AI. The industry has not settled on one term. We say GEO, but the work is identical whatever you call it.

Shall we see what AI says about your company?

The audit takes your sector, a list of questions a customer would ask and four AI engines. You get back a plain document showing where you appear today and what to do first. We usually reply within 24 hours.

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