GEO for businesses in Suffolk: how we count progress
There are no rankings as there are in Google, but there are numbers: answers you appear in, links to your website and visits that arrive from AI.
More than 200 clients trust us.
GEO, short for generative engine optimization, is the work of getting AI assistants to name your company in their answers. We do it for businesses in Suffolk, so that ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google mention you when someone asks about what you sell.
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And more than 200 clients who have already trusted Vértigo.
There are no rankings as there are in Google, but there are numbers: answers you appear in, links to your website and visits that arrive from AI.
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ways an assistant can answer: by searching the web at that moment or from what it learned months ago. We work on both.
How AI answers
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checks on each question: does it name you, who does it put first and where does it get that from.
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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places where we measure your brand: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and the AI answers in Google.
Where your customers ask
ChatGPTGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI
SuffolkUSAWorldwide
Suffolk has 103,105 residents according to the US Census Bureau estimates for 2024, which makes it the eighth largest city in Virginia. It is the 320th largest city in the United States. There are 8 cities in Virginia 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. Vértigo is based in Murcia, Spain, usually 6 hours ahead of Suffolk. We work with clients abroad by video call, in English. We offer the same in Chesapeake, Norfolk and Newport News.
Source: US Census Bureau, 2024 population estimates.
Three examples of GEO in Suffolk
AI gets asked about neighborhoods, prices and agencies people can trust. Good area guides, written with your own data, make you a source it can quote.
More and more visitors ask AI to plan where to eat. What it says comes from reviews, guides and local press, and that is where you need to appear.
It is a purchase people talk through with AI: how many panels, how much they save, who installs them. Your real projects and your numbers are exactly what it needs to cite you.
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GEO starts with knowing what AI says about you today. Before we touch anything, we ask each engine about your sector and check whether it names you, who it recommends and where it gets its information.
The starting point, in writing: answers you are in, answers where your brand is missing and the sources AI used for each one.
People do not write to AI the way they type into Google. They use long sentences with context, and you need to know which ones your customers use.
Fewer adjectives, more facts. We reorganise your website so that each page answers one specific question and answers it well.
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.
AI recommends whoever it sees recommended. We aim to get you into the articles, lists and publications it uses as references in your sector.
A short monthly report: mentions, links, visits from AI and what we plan to do the following month.
Try it yourself. Ask ChatGPT about a real estate agency in Suffolk and it will give you a handful of names. The same happens with a restaurant in Suffolk. 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 ask each engine about your sector and your brand to find out where we are starting from.
We work out why it recommends others: what their websites have and where they are mentioned. Out comes a task list, in order.
We rewrite pages, put your brand data in order and seek mentions in reliable sources. Whatever carries most weight goes first.
Same questions, same method, every month. We show you the new answers next to the old ones.
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Can't find your question? Write to us and we'll reply within 24 hours.
Talk to the teamYes. Plenty of people now ask AI for a dentist, a lawyer or a restaurant close to home. We work on your business profile, your reviews and the local sources an assistant reads, so that it recommends you when people ask in Suffolk.
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.
For the most part, yes. When AI links to your website and someone clicks, the source is recorded. What leaves no trace is the person who reads the answer and looks you up by name afterwards, which is why we also watch searches for your brand.
It can be corrected, though not overnight. AI repeats what it finds, so the source of the error has to be fixed and the correct fact reinforced on your website and your profiles. With assistants that answer from training, the old version can linger until the model is updated.
It is not compulsory, but it shows. If your website does not appear in search engines, assistants that read the web live have a hard time finding you. A site with sound SEO gives GEO something to build on, and we handle both in the same team.
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.
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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