
NorCal Earthworks
+1,196% Google search clicks90-day comparison · through Sep 15, 2026
An SEO-first contractor website with service and city landing pages, local planning content, and cost calculators connected to estimate capture.
GEO & AI search optimization
Help customers discover your expertise in Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and other AI-powered search experiences.
A stronger foundation for discovery
GEO (generative engine optimization) is the work of making your business easy for AI search tools, such as Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity, to find, understand and cite. Verlua is a web design, SEO and GEO agency based in Roseville, California, serving contractors and local service businesses nationwide. Our GEO service builds on your SEO and covers the six areas below. Monthly search work runs $1,500 – $2,500/mo.
Understand how your business is represented across AI-powered search and where the important gaps are.
Build content around the questions customers ask, with specific explanations and evidence from your business.
Make important pages accessible, clearly structured, and understandable to search engines.
Align the way your business, services, people, and expertise are described across relevant sources.
Connect your service areas, business details, and relevant local experience.
Track observed mentions, citations, referral traffic, and inquiries, with clear limits on what can be measured.
How we work
A GEO engagement runs in four steps. We review how AI search tools describe your business today, strengthen the pages that explain your services, align your business details and site structure, then track mentions, citations and AI referral traffic each month and choose the next priorities. Billing is month to month, with no minimum contract.
Review your business, current visibility, content, and competitors.
Improve the pages and sources that describe your expertise.
Align technical structure, business information, and relevant evidence.
Review visibility and referral signals, then improve the next set of priorities.
The work speaks for itself

+1,196% Google search clicks90-day comparison · through Sep 15, 2026
An SEO-first contractor website with service and city landing pages, local planning content, and cost calculators connected to estimate capture.

Multi-location website for a Sacramento barbershop with three shops. Features online booking integration, a page for each location, service menus, and a bold visual identity that matches the shop's in-person experience.
Clear expectations
No. AI answers change between platforms, prompts and users, so no agency can guarantee a citation or recommendation. What we can do is document the work, track the mentions and referral traffic we can observe, and keep improving the content and search foundations those answers draw on.
We’ll review your website, service content, and business information, then recommend a scope that complements your existing marketing.
Discuss a tailored planGEO and AI search optimization for Sacramento and Roseville businesses, and remotely nationwide.
Good questions. Clear answers.
AI SEO — also called AI search optimization or Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) — is the practice of structuring your website so AI search engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, and Bing Copilot can read, trust, and cite your business in their answers. It overlaps with traditional SEO (a page still has to be crawlable and authoritative) but adds passage-level answer formatting, schema markup, llms.txt configuration, and entity signals tuned for how language models extract and attribute information.
Traditional SEO optimizes for ranking a blue link in a list of results. AI SEO optimizes for being quoted inside a generated answer. The foundations are shared — crawlability, page authority, and clear content help both — but AI engines reward different signals: answer-first paragraphs under question-style headings, FAQPage and Speakable schema, a configured llms.txt file, and an entity graph (Organization schema, sameAs links) that lets a model recognize your brand as a topic authority. We run both disciplines together rather than treating them as separate channels.
GEO is the formal name for optimizing content to appear inside AI-generated responses. Where SEO targets search engine result pages, GEO targets the answer layer of generative engines. In practice it means engineering pages so a model can lift a clean, self-contained passage and cite it — short factual answers immediately under headings, structured data the model can parse, and authority signals that make your source trustworthy enough to quote.
No. Anyone guaranteeing AI citations or AI Overview placement is overselling — these systems are non-deterministic and change frequently. What we commit to is the work that makes citation possible and measurable: schema and llms.txt deployment, answer-first content restructuring, entity-signal building, and monthly tracking of where and whether your brand is being mentioned across the major AI engines. We report what is actually happening rather than promise a fixed outcome.
Yes. AI engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Bing Copilot pull candidate sources from a live search index — if you do not rank in traditional search for a query, the model usually never sees your page as a citation option. Strong technical and on-page SEO is the prerequisite, not a replacement. AI SEO is the layer on top that converts a ranking page into a citable one. Most engagements run both in parallel.
A typical engagement starts with a GEO and SEO audit to baseline your AI citation readiness and traditional ranking health. From there we deploy the technical foundation (llms.txt, JSON-LD schema including FAQPage and Speakable, AI crawler access), restructure priority pages into answer-first format, build entity and topical authority signals, and set up monthly AI visibility tracking that reports named brand mentions across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and AI Overviews. Scope and pricing are based on your site size and content needs, not a fixed package.
We optimize for the engines that drive measurable referral and citation activity: Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT search, Perplexity, Google Gemini, and Microsoft Bing Copilot. Because several of these share retrieval indexes (ChatGPT and Copilot both lean on Bing), the underlying work compounds — improving your structure and authority for one engine usually lifts visibility across the others.
Tell us where you want to go. We’ll work out how to get there.