AI search work in Santa Maria with results you can count
We ask the same questions every month and write down, for each answer, if your company is in it, how high up and which source is cited.
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 Santa Maria appear in answers from ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google.
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And more than 200 clients who have already trusted Vértigo.
We ask the same questions every month and write down, for each answer, if your company is in it, how high up and which source is cited.
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routes need looking after: what AI reads live and what it already knows about your brand.
How AI answers
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things we note for every answer: whether you appear, in what position and with which source.
What we measure
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review a month of every question we track, with before and after screenshots.
Follow-up
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assistants we check every month: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI.
Where your customers ask
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Santa Maria has 111,346 residents according to the US Census Bureau estimates for 2024, which makes it the 60th largest city in California. That puts it 286th in the national ranking of cities. In California we cover 76 cities.
A smaller city means fewer articles and fewer reviews for an assistant to read. Each good source that mentions your company counts for more here than it would in a big city. Our office is in Murcia, Spain, about 9,800 km (6,100 miles) away and usually 9 hours ahead of you. We meet by video call. If your business is in Ventura, Bakersfield or Oxnard, there is a page like this one for each.
Source: US Census Bureau, 2024 population estimates.
Three examples of GEO in Santa Maria
When someone asks ChatGPT for a dentist they can trust in Santa Maria, the answer comes from reviews, health directories and your own website. We put all three in order.
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.
People ask a lot before a treatment: does it hurt, how long does it last, what does it cost. If those answers are on your site, AI can use them and name you.
We also do AI search work in
Ventura Bakersfield Oxnard Simi Valley Thousand Oaks Santa Clarita Visalia Fresno
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.
We ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google what your customer would ask, and we measure if you appear, how you are described and who gets recommended in your place.
We find out what your customers really ask AI about what you sell, in your city, nationwide or abroad.
We create the pages that are missing: guide prices, comparisons, frequently asked questions. That is the material answers are made from.
Name, address, services and opening hours, the same everywhere. If every site says something different, AI hesitates and names someone else.
We work to get your brand talked about in the media, comparison articles and directories that engines draw their recommendations from.
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.
Try it yourself. Ask ChatGPT about a dentist in Santa Maria and it will give you a handful of names. The same happens with an accountant for small businesses in Santa Maria. If you are not on that short list, you are not in the running.
Illustrative simulation. AI answers change every time a question is asked and nobody can guarantee a specific recommendation.
We put your customer's questions to each assistant and save the answers.
We compare what AI says with your website and with the sources it cites. You get it in writing: what is missing and where to begin.
We rewrite pages, put your brand data in order and seek mentions in reliable sources. Whatever carries most weight goes first.
We review mentions, links and visits from AI, and decide the next step with you.
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Talk to the teamThere 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.
SEO works on your visibility in Google's list of results. GEO works on getting AI to name you in its answers. They share a foundation, which is a fast, clear website that other sites trust, so they complement each other and we usually work on both together.
We cannot, and nor can anyone else. OpenAI, Google and the rest decide how their models answer, and those answers vary each time. Our commitment is to the work and to honest measurement: the same questions every month, with the results in front of you.
Yes. We are based in Murcia, Spain, and work with clients abroad remotely, in English, by video call. You do not need to be in a place to ask AI about its businesses. Each month you receive the report with the answers and the tasks completed.
By asking it. We prepare a list of questions from your sector, put them to each engine several times and save the answers. That shows us what repeats and what was a one-off. The same list is run again every month, so the comparison is fair.
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.
In the audit you see, with screenshots, whether AI names you, who it recommends in your place and where it gets its information. There is no obligation.
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