Question 1

Are you an SEO agency?

Accepted Answer

Yes — Search Marketing is Magnet’s SEO agency practice. Technical SEO, intent mapping, expert content, and authority growth run as one system with web and GTM, on a month-to-month retainer, so organic equity compounds instead of resetting each quarter.

Question 2

Do you offer technical SEO?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Technical Foundation is the first Search Marketing deliverable: indexability, Core Web Vitals, crawl health, and structural soundness before content scale. A technical SEO agency engagement that skips this layer usually buys rankings that do not hold.

Question 3

Do you do AI SEO and AEO?

Accepted Answer

Yes. AI SEO / AEO (and GEO) sit inside Optimization & GEO/AEO — passage-level depth, entity clarity, and citation readiness so generative engines and AI Overviews can lift your answers. It is the same SEO agency system, extended for how buyers find answers now.

Question 4

How long until SEO starts working?

Accepted Answer

Technical fixes and quick wins can show movement in 30-60 days. Meaningful organic traffic growth typically appears at 90-120 days. The compounding effect — where each new piece of content lifts the ones before it — becomes visible around month 6. SEO is infrastructure, not a campaign.

Question 5

Should we invest in SEO, GEO, or AEO?

Accepted Answer

All three, as one system. SEO builds the technical and content foundation that search engines and AI retrieval both depend on. GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) makes your pages the source models cite in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude. AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) structures passages so answer engines and AI Overviews can lift them cleanly. We bridge SEO, GEO, and AEO so rankings, citations, and answer presence compound together instead of competing for budget.

Question 6

What is GEO and AEO?

Accepted Answer

Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) and Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) are how you become the source AI engines build answers from — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and Google’s AI Overviews. The retrieval machinery is the same one that powers Google ranking, so SEO best practices still apply. What changes is the unit of optimization: the page is the document, but the passage is the unit of evidence. Pages that get cited tend to be the canonical source for a specific entity, written deeply enough that any single section answers a sub-question completely. There is no separate "AI markup" and no `llms.txt` file that helps. What helps is depth, internal coherence, a clean technical foundation, and a measurement layer that tracks citations — not just rankings.

Question 7

What is the lift test?

Accepted Answer

The lift test is a check we run on every paragraph of a canonical page. Take any section in the middle of the article and ask: could a stranger read just that paragraph, with no other context from the rest of the page, and walk away with a complete and accurate answer to a specific question? If yes, the passage is liftable — a generative engine can cite it directly. If no, the passage requires the rest of the article as scaffolding, and the system either has to cite the whole page (rare) or skip it entirely (common). Most blog content fails the lift test. Reference content passes it. Rewriting to pass the lift test is one of the highest-return interventions in the citation economy.

Question 8

How do you measure GEO and AEO performance?

Accepted Answer

Rankings and sessions are still useful but increasingly partial — a page can rank at position three and lose half its traffic to an AI Overview, or rank at position eight and gain traffic by becoming the cited source on a dozen fan-out queries. We track citation frequency across AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini for your priority queries; segment AI referral traffic into its own channel grouping; monitor SERP-feature presence alongside ranking; and audit which passage a model is citing so the citation represents the brand correctly. AI-referred traffic also tends to convert at a higher rate than generic organic, so we break it out of the average rather than averaging two very different behaviours into one number.

Question 9

Are you a Cincinnati agency?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Our office is at 1311 Vine St in Over-the-Rhine. We work with companies across Greater Cincinnati — including Hyde Park, Oakley, Blue Ash, Mason, and West Chester — and with clients across the Midwest, US, UK, and EU.

Question 10

What does a typical engagement look like?

Accepted Answer

All work runs on a month-to-month retainer. We start with a diagnostic, then scope the retainer around your growth constraints. Work begins in Foundation (positioning, measurement, conversion architecture) and continues through Activation, Acceleration, and Retention as priorities shift.

SEO that compounds — technical, content, and AEO

Overview

Our approach

The thinking behind this work

Search Marketing activates Foundation digital experience and messaging into compounding inbound demand that Acceleration attribution and Retention content can keep earning from.

What this looks like in the field.

Other solutions in Activation

Paid Media

Social Content

Creative Storytelling

Partnerships

What does a typical engagement look like?

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