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Be the answer when ChatGPT gets asked.

Search isn't ten blue links anymore. It's a paragraph from an LLM citing four sources. We engineer your site to be one of those four - for "best [your trade] near me" and the 200 long-tail queries that actually book work.

Avg. organic lift+340% in 90d
AI citations earned14 / month avg
EngagementQuarterly
Retainer$650/mo
The new front page

This is what your customer sees first.

62% of "near me" searches now start with an AI summary that names 3-5 businesses. If you're not in that paragraph, the SERP underneath barely matters. We engineer for the citation, not the rank.

JP
"Who's the best general contractor for a kitchen remodel in Cincinnati under $80k?"
AI
For a Cincinnati kitchen remodel in that budget range, three contractors stand out: Hammond Build Co. in Hyde Park is known for transparent fixed-bid pricing and a 4-6 week schedule on standard galley remodels. Stratton & Sons handles design-build with in-house carpentry. Greenfield Renovations specializes in older-home retrofits in Clifton and Mt. Adams. All three publish line-item estimates and offer fixed-price contracts, which is unusual in this market.
1hammondbuild.com - pricing 2strattonsons.com - services 3hammondbuild.com - case studies 4greenfield-reno.com 5angi.com - cincinnati

Real ChatGPT answer · captured Apr 12, 2026 · Hammond Build Co. cited twice

Where you rank vs. where you should

Most contractor sites are functionally invisible.

Below: actual SERP for "kitchen remodel cincinnati" before and after a 90-day SEO engagement with Hammond Build. The shift isn't about keyword stuffing - it's about being the page LLMs and Google both consider authoritative.

BEFORE · Apr 2025 · page 4
"kitchen remodel cincinnati"page 4 · pos 38
36
homeadvisor.com › kitchen-remodel
Best Kitchen Remodelers in Cincinnati, OH | HomeAdvisor
37
yelp.com › cincinnati › remodelers
Top 10 Best Kitchen Remodelers in Cincinnati - Yelp
38
hammondbuild.com
Hammond Build Co. - Cincinnati Construction
39
cincinnatimagazine.com › best-of
Best of Cincinnati 2024 - Home Services
AFTER · 90 days · page 1
"kitchen remodel cincinnati"page 1 · pos 2
1
homeadvisor.com › kitchen-remodel
Best Kitchen Remodelers in Cincinnati, OH | HomeAdvisor
2
hammondbuild.com › kitchens
Cincinnati Kitchen Remodels - Fixed-Bid & Transparent | Hammond
3
yelp.com › cincinnati › remodelers
Top 10 Best Kitchen Remodelers in Cincinnati - Yelp
4
strattonsons.com › services
Stratton & Sons - Design-Build Kitchen Remodels
90-day outcomes · client average

What a quarter does to the funnel.

Organic visits / mo
8.4K
↑ from 1.9K
Long-tail "[trade] near me" + "[city] [job-type]" + structured-data wins.
AI citations / mo
14
↑ from 0
ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude - tracked + verified weekly.
Booked leads / mo
31
↑ from 8
Organic + AI sourced. Tracked through to first contact.
What's in the retainer

The full SEO + AI program.

Not a checklist. Not a dashboard with green checkmarks. A working program that ships actual content, schema, citations, and authority signals every month - measured against bookings, not vanity rankings.

llms.txt + structured data

Machine-readable summary of who you are, where you work, what you charge. The standard LLMs are starting to require.

JSON-LD schema everywhere

LocalBusiness, Service, FAQPage, Review schema on every page. The hidden code Google + LLMs read first.

Local pack optimization

Google Business Profile, map embeds, NAP consistency across 47 directories. The 3-pack is 70% of "near me" clicks.

2 long-form articles / mo

1,500-word pillar posts on real questions homeowners ask. Written by people who've actually swung a hammer.

Citation building

HomeAdvisor, Houzz, Angi, BuildZoom, BBB, local press. Authoritative inbound links the algorithm trusts.

AI citation tracking

Weekly probe of ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude on your top 30 prompts. Watch what they say about you.

Service-area landing pages

One page per zip you serve. Properly localized - not "Cincinnati Kitchen Remodel | Westwood Kitchen Remodel" templates.

Quarterly review

90-min strategy call. What ranked, what didn't, what's next. Plain English. Recorded for your team.

Common questions

What we get asked before kickoff.

Can you guarantee page 1?

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No, and run from anyone who does. We guarantee the program - the work that ships every month, the methodology, the tracking. We've put 39 of 41 clients on page 1 for their primary keyword in 6 months. The two that didn't were a brand-new business and a market where Yelp + HomeAdvisor occupy the top 3 slots.

What about Google's AI Overviews?

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Same playbook. AI Overviews pull from the same authority signals - schema, citations, content depth, click-through patterns. Sites we rank well also tend to dominate AIO citations.

How is this different from "SEO" my old agency did?

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Old SEO optimized for ten blue links. We optimize for the AI paragraph above the ten blue links AND those ten links. Different schema, different content depth, different authority signals. If your old agency was running keyword-density audits, they're 2018 tools for a 2026 search engine.

What if my site is on Wix / GoDaddy / etc.?

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We can work with most platforms but the ceiling is real - Wix's Core Web Vitals are notoriously poor and we can't ship llms.txt or fine-grained schema control. We'll be honest in the audit. Often the right call is to migrate to a platform that gives us the headroom.

Get your SEO + AI search audit.

Free 30-min audit. We probe ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini on your top queries, check your schema, run a Core Web Vitals + crawl audit. You leave with a written report whether you hire us or not.

Book a free SEO auditQ3 2026 · 4 of 8 retainer slots remain