Generative Engine Optimization
Get your brand cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini.
Traditional SEO ranks pages. GEO makes you the source AI answers quote. FirstCite starts with a free 1–100 score, then sells priced jobs — a $500 citation audit if you want a better score, then the page, fact, and mention work models already trust.
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Sources
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Sample Co. — Mid-market revenue intelligence guide
example.com · fictional source for this mock
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Industry analyst comparison, 2026
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Practitioner review roundup
Instant site scan
Paste a URL. Get a 1–100 GEO score.
We fetch the public homepage and score the signals answer engines reuse: title, entity copy, schema, FAQ markup, and whether there is enough text to quote. The score pops up. We do not email it. The priced roster, including the paid citation audit, lives on /services.
We optimize for the engines people already ask.
- ChatGPT
- Perplexity
- Gemini
- Google AI Overviews
- Claude
- Copilot
The shift
Search still matters. The answer layer is where deals start.
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Buyers ask AI first
Category research now starts in a chat box. Many of those answers never produce a blue-link click.
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No citation, no consideration
If you are not in the cited sources, you are invisible at the moment a buyer is forming a shortlist.
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Google rank is not enough
Ranking on page one does not guarantee you appear in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, or AI Overviews.
What GEO is
Generative Engine Optimization is the practice of making a brand easy for AI systems to find, trust, and cite.
Models do not “rank” you the way Google does. They assemble an answer from entities they recognize, facts they can verify, and sources they have seen repeated in places they already treat as reliable.
FirstCite works on that stack as priced jobs: a free on-page score so you can see the gap, optional paid diagnosis, then entity-clear pages, structured facts, and third-party sources a model can actually quote.
How we sell
Scan. Optionally audit. Then buy a specific job.
There is no retainer and no mention-monitoring SKU. The priced roster lives on /services: a free score, a paid citation audit if you want a better one, then a priced implementation job.
Specific work
Page redesigns, a Carolina news desk, and pages a model can quote.
The free score shows the on-page gap. The paid audit, if you buy it, names the job. This is the implementation work — including our partnership with The Carolina Wire when the story is a real local opening or hiring push.
Process
Concrete work. Not a black box.
- Step 1
Free score
Paste a URL. We fetch public HTML and return a 1–100 on-page GEO score. That popup is the free deliverable.
- Step 2
Paid audit, if you want it
The Citation audit is $500 and 10 business days. It is the deeper citation baseline — not an email of the free score.
- Step 3
Pick a priced job
Schema, redesign, The Carolina Wire desk, comparison pages, local entity pages, or a research brief. Each job has a published fee and a clock.
- Step 4
Ship the work
We deliver the scoped job and you can re-run the free score. We do not sell ongoing mention monitoring.
Results
What you actually get. Not invented citation counts.
We do not publish fake case studies. The free score is a 1–100 read of public on-page signals. The paid Citation audit is $500. Implementation is sold from the priced roster, not as a mystery retainer.
Who it’s for
We sell to any business.
The commercial model does not depend on industry. If a model can name a concrete fact about you, we can work on making that fact easier to cite.
FAQ
Direct answers, because that is the product.
It fetches the public homepage and scores on-page GEO signals: HTTPS, title, meta description, a single H1, JSON-LD, FAQ markup, Open Graph, a canonical URL, entity-clear copy, and whether there is enough text to quote. You get a 1–100 score in a popup. We do not email it, and we do not store a lead. It does not log in, crawl the whole site, or ask ChatGPT if you are cited — that deeper work is the paid citation audit.
SEO is built for ranked result pages. GEO is built for generated answers. We still care about crawlable, factual pages — but the success metric is whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, or AI Overviews cite you, not only whether you rank.
The paid Citation audit takes 10 business days. First citation movement often shows up within 6–12 weeks after we publish source-worthy pages and earn a few trusted mentions. Model refresh cycles vary, so we measure on a fixed prompt set rather than promising a calendar date.
No. No serious firm can. Models change, and they draw from sources we do not control. What we can do is raise the odds in a measurable way: clearer entities, pages worth citing, and third-party corroboration — then report the prompt-level results.
$500. The free deliverable is a 1–100 score from a public homepage scan. This paid audit is the deeper work to improve that score: a 25-prompt citation baseline across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and AI Overviews, plus a written map of which roster job to run next. The free 1–100 score is separate and already on this site.
Usually not. GEO sits on top of technical and content SEO. If your current team already ships strong pages, we use that work. If the site is thin or the entity is confused, we will say so before anyone buys a job from the roster.
FirstCite partners with The Carolina Wire, the independent local desk covering hospitality and retail in Davie County and Forsyth County. When you have a real story — an opening, a hiring push, a downtown change — we help place factual coverage on a source AI engines can cite. The Wire retains editorial control. Coverage is not guaranteed. $1,200 covers review and one pitch; coverage is not guaranteed.
The free score is free. Everything else is sold from the priced roster: Citation audit $500 / 10 business days; Citable page redesign $2,800 / 10 business days; The Carolina Wire desk $1,200 per story / 7–14 days if the desk accepts it; Original research briefs $4,500 / 3 weeks; Alternatives and comparison pages $1,800 per page / 7 days; FAQ and entity schema $900 / 5 days; Local entity pages $750 per location / 5 days. $1,200 covers review and one pitch; coverage is not guaranteed. We will not quote a mystery retainer.