How long does a technical SEO audit take?+
Initial findings within 7–10 business days. The full forensic audit and 90-day execution plan are delivered within 21 days.
Do you implement the fixes, or just hand off the report?+
Both options exist. We deliver a 90-day plan a developer can run on Monday morning, or our team executes the priority fixes for you.
Will this work on a headless or custom storefront?+
Yes. We've audited Shopify Hydrogen, Next.js commerce builds, headless WordPress, BigCommerce Catalyst, and fully custom stacks.
What if the audit doesn't move rankings?+
Implement our 90-day plan and if you don't see results in 3–6 months, we refund you in full. No catch — the risk sits with us.
Will fixing technical SEO improve our AI Mode and AI Overviews visibility too?+
Yes — directly. AI Mode and AIO retrieve from the same Google index as classic search. Pages with rendering failures, soft-404s, canonical confusion, or stale sitemaps never enter the AI candidate pool. Technical SEO is a prerequisite for GEO. See our /get-cited-in-ai-mode playbook for the full method.
How does the audit handle Core Web Vitals on Shopify and headless stacks?+
We profile real-user CrUX data + synthetic Lighthouse runs across PDP, PLP, cart, and checkout. Then we prescribe the smallest set of theme edits, app removals, image strategy changes, and font-loading fixes that move LCP and INP into the green band.
Do you cover schema validation as part of a technical audit?+
Yes — every page template's JSON-LD is validated against both Schema.org's own validator and Google's Rich Results Test. We catch the silent failures (BreadcrumbList missing itemListElement, FAQPage without Question entries) that suppress rich results and AI citation eligibility.
How do we make sure our company shows up on AI platforms like ChatGPT and Gemini?+
Three layers, in order. First, entity clarity: one canonical Organization with @id anchors, sameAs links to authoritative databases, and knowsAbout coverage of your real expertise. Second, extractable content: atomic answer blocks, comparison tables, transparent pricing and specs, and FAQ blocks on every commercial page. Third, corroboration: mentions in the roundups, directories, review platforms, and trade publications those engines retrieve. Measure it by probing a fixed set of buying questions monthly and tracking citation frequency per engine.
What actually makes a page get cited by AI instead of just ranked?+
Citability. AI engines lift passages that answer one question completely in 40–80 words, in plain language, with a concrete number, definition, or list. Pages that bury the answer under narrative rarely get quoted. We rewrite key pages so every important question has a self-contained answer block, wrapped in schema that labels what it is.
Is SEO still worth investing in now that AI answers so many queries?+
Yes, because AI answers are built from indexed pages. Every major assistant retrieves from a crawled index, so pages that aren't crawlable, renderable, or structured never enter the candidate pool. Classic SEO is now the entry requirement for AI visibility, and the two programs share almost all of the same work.
How quickly can we expect results from an Arise GEO engagement?+
Technical recovery and on-page work typically show movement in 30–60 days. AI citation lift on long-tail and comparison queries usually lands in 30–90 days. Category-level authority and head-term rankings are a 6–12 month curve. Every engagement ships a sequenced 90-day plan so early wins fund the long work.
What do we get, and what does it cost?+
You get a forensic audit, a prioritized 90-day execution plan with effort and impact scoring, and optional done-for-you implementation by our engineers and editors. Pricing is scoped per engagement based on catalog size, locale count, and whether you want execution included. Implement our 90-day plan and if you don't see results in 3–6 months, we refund you in full.