AEO cost

What AEOcosts.

AEO cost follows the work, and the work follows the site. A page that already answers a real question in crawlable HTML is a smaller job than a site that needs new pages, a rewrite, and technical fixes. I do not publish a price, because it depends on scope, and you get a quote before any work starts.

Updated Oct 28, 2026

What does the scope include?

The scope is the list of pages and the list of problems. A single service page, written from facts you already have, is one job. A whole site, with a menu stuck in a PDF, missing hours, and copy that never says what you do, is another.

Scope is the first thing that moves the quote, because it decides how much I have to read, write, and ship. I will not turn that into a package name with a dollar figure attached. Send what you have and the reply names the work.

How do the pages change the job?

Each page that should be citable needs its own answer, its own title and description, and a URL that stays put. A short shop site and a long catalog are not the same number of decisions. I will not invent a per-page fee here.

Send the list of URLs, or the list of pages you wish you had. The quote is based on that list. If a page is a picture of a menu instead of sentences, rewriting it into HTML is part of the page count, not a footnote.

Why does the writing take time?

Answer engines quote a sentence that already contains the fact. Writing that sentence means knowing the service, the city, the hours, and the question a customer actually asks. Vague lines give them nothing to repeat. If the facts are in your head and not on the site, gathering them is part of the job.

I will not fill a gap with a testimonial, a star rating, or a price you did not approve. SISTRIX's citation worthiness study compared cited and non-cited pages across 96,418 URLs. A question used as a heading, a table, an author box, a visible updated date, and links to sources were each associated with being cited more often. Pages that combined many of the features they measured were cited 2.1 times as often as pages with few of them. Those are their figures, and the study says they are correlations. They are also why the writing is part of the price, not a plugin.

Which technical fixes add work?

If the words are painted in by JavaScript, a crawler that does not run scripts never sees them. Cleaning duplicate URLs, allowing the crawlers you want in robots.txt, and adding schema that matches the visible text are all time. Some of that is an afternoon. Some of it is the whole site. The quote says which.

Google's guide to optimizing for generative AI features says those features in Search are rooted in the same ranking and quality systems as Search, and that a page still has to be crawlable and eligible to be shown. Fixing the technical layer is ordinary SEO work. It is on the invoice when the site needs it, and it is absent when the site does not.

What does an ongoing refresh mean?

A page can be right in March and stale in June. Scrunch looked at 3.5 million citation events and reported that citation activity for the average source dropped by half in about 4 to 5 weeks. That is their measurement, not a promise about your site, and the platforms in their data did not move on the same clock.

It is why a one-time publish and a later pass are different jobs. A refresh means checking the questions, updating the facts that changed, and keeping the date on the page honest. How often is part of the scope, and it is part of the quote. I will not sell a retainer with a number I made up for this paragraph.

How do I get a number?

Pricing depends on scope. There is no rate card on this site, and there will not be one. Write with the URL if you have one, the pages you care about, and three questions your customers already ask. I will reply with what I would change first and a price. Nothing is billed until you have seen that number.

Use the contact form on this page, or email atwbusinessjames@gmail.com. The longer description of the work is AEO services. How this differs from ordinary search work is AEO vs SEO. If the site does not exist yet, start with web design.

Contact

Ask for a quote.

Send the URL, the pages, and three questions customers already ask. I will reply with the scope and a price. Nothing is billed before you see the number.

atwbusinessjames@gmail.com