AEO
AEO: Answer Engine Optimization
Answer Engine Optimization for AI Search and Voice Answers
People increasingly get answers without clicking a list of links. Google AI Overviews, featured snippets, voice assistants, and AI chat tools pull short, direct answers from websites they can understand and trust. Answer engine optimization (AEO) is the work of structuring your website so those systems can find, understand, and accurately quote your answers.
Fire Source Media builds AEO into the websites we develop and the SEO work we manage. It sits alongside traditional SEO and GEO (generative engine optimization), using the same strong fundamentals.
What AEO work includes
- Question research — finding the real questions your customers ask before they buy.
- Answer-first content — clear, concise answers near the top of the page, followed by supporting detail.
- Structured data — schema markup that describes your business, services, articles, and FAQs in a machine-readable way.
- Clean page structure — logical headings, lists, and tables that are easy to extract and quote.
- Entity and trust signals — consistent business information, authorship, and citations that help engines trust your content.
- Technical access — fast, crawlable pages with real content in the HTML, not hidden behind scripts.
AEO, SEO and GEO — how they fit together
| Goal | |
|---|---|
| SEO | Rank pages in traditional search results. |
| AEO | Be the direct answer in snippets, AI Overviews, and voice results. |
| GEO | Be understood and cited by generative AI tools. |
An honest note on results
No one controls which answer a search engine or AI tool shows, and no one can honestly guarantee inclusion. What we can do is make your website one of the clearest, best-structured, most trustworthy sources on the topics you serve — and measure what changes over time.
Get started
AEO is part of our Growth and Dominance monthly plans, which include on-page optimization and technical SEO monitoring. Request a website quote to talk about your goals.
Pricing
An AI website, plus a plan that fits.
Pick a one-time website build, then the monthly plan that matches how much help you want after launch.
Website build · one-time
Starter AI
A standardized AI website to get you online fast.
$249one-time
+ Essential hosting from $49/mo
Start My Website- Most popular
Growth AI
A larger standardized AI website for growing businesses.
$599one-time
Requires Management plan $249/mo
Start My Website Pro AI
An advanced AI website build with initial SEO/AEO included.
$1,499one-time
Requires Growth plan $449/mo
Start My WebsitePremier AI
Our most complete AI website, with automated SEO/AEO powered by AI agents.
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Custom WordPress Website
Custom WordPress projects are scoped after a discovery call. Monthly plans for WordPress sites start at $249/mo.
Website builds are a one-time cost. Starter AI requires Essential hosting ($49/mo), Growth AI requires Management ($249/mo), Pro AI requires Growth ($449/mo), and Premier AI requires Management ($249/mo). Higher plans include hosting. Monthly plans are billed separately from the website build. Website management and ongoing SEO/AEO are included according to your selected monthly plan.
Monthly plans
Essential
Required for every website we build and host.
$49/month
Start Now- Hosting for the completed website
- SSL and platform maintenance
- Page count set by your separately quoted build
- Content edits, website management and ongoing SEO/AEO are separate
Management
Hosting, page buildout, active management and Lite SEO.
$249/month
Start Now- Includes Essential
- Management for up to 5 pages
- Up to 1 hour of content edits per month
- Routine website and form checks
- Lite SEO campaign targeting up to 5 agreed keywords
- Most popular
Growth
Managed website with an Advanced SEO/AEO campaign.
$449/month
Start Now- Includes hosting and website management
- Management and optimization for up to 10 pages
- Up to 2 hours of content edits per month
- Advanced SEO/AEO targeting up to 10 agreed keywords
- Technical SEO/AEO monitoring
- On-page optimization and internal-link improvements
- Local SEO/AEO work where applicable
- Monthly performance reporting
- Custom client dashboard
Dominance
SEO/AEO, with new content every month.
$949/month
Start Now- Includes hosting and website management
- Management and optimization for up to 20 pages
- Up to 4 hours of content edits per month
- SEO/AEO targeting up to 20 agreed keywords
- Technical SEO/AEO monitoring
- On-page optimization and internal-link improvements
- Local SEO/AEO work where applicable
- AEO: content structured for AI Overviews, featured snippets and voice answers
- One new SEO/AEO content piece per month
- Monthly performance reporting
- Custom client dashboard