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A clear entity
The AI needs to know exactly who you are: one consistent clinic name, address, specialty and team across your site, your Google Business Profile, directories and citations. Ambiguity gets you skipped.
GEO is the practice of making your clinic's information clear, structured and consistent enough for AI systems like ChatGPT, Gemini and Google's AI Overviews to find it, trust it, and use it when they answer a patient's question. It matters because patients increasingly ask AI before they open Google, and the clinic in the answer gets the enquiry.
Nobody outside these companies knows the exact recipe, and anyone claiming otherwise is guessing. But the observable pattern across AI search systems is consistent: they favour sources with four qualities.
The AI needs to know exactly who you are: one consistent clinic name, address, specialty and team across your site, your Google Business Profile, directories and citations. Ambiguity gets you skipped.
Content that answers real patient questions directly, with clear headings, plain language and schema markup. AI systems lift answers; they don't wade through marketing copy to find them.
Third-party signals that agree with what your site says: reviews, directories, press, professional registrations. One source claiming something is an assertion; several agreeing is a fact an AI will repeat.
A site that visibly maintains its information reads as current and trustworthy. Stale content, broken pages and outdated details push AI systems towards fresher sources.
Most of today's patient searches still happen on Google, so classic SEO and Local SEO remain the plumbing: rankings, Google Business Profile, reviews, technical health. GEO builds on exactly the same foundations, because the qualities that make a page rank well are largely the qualities that make it citable. The clinics that win AI search first will be the ones whose ordinary search foundations were already sound.
GEO is a genuinely new discipline. Nobody can guarantee your clinic a citation in ChatGPT or a spot in an AI Overview, because nobody controls those systems, and anyone promising ranking outcomes there is guessing. What can honestly be promised is the work: applying current best practice, measuring what's measurable, and telling you plainly what moved. That's the basis we work on.
We've seen the direction of travel first-hand: after an SEO audit and a round of fixes for one client, we've been tracking a growing wave of AI search citations for exactly the queries it historically won on Google. Read that case study →
No. Most patient searches still happen on Google, and AI systems draw heavily on the same signals good SEO builds. Treat GEO as a layer on top of SEO, not a replacement for it.
No, and neither can anyone else. We guarantee the work is done to current best-practice standard, and we're upfront that citation outcomes cannot be promised in a discipline this new.
Imperfectly, and we say so. Today that means AI citation dashboards where platforms provide them, testing real patient-style prompts, and watching referral patterns. Measurement is maturing quickly and we adopt each new source as it appears.
It isn't separate: GEO is one layer of Get found, alongside Google Ads and Local SEO. This page just explains that layer properly.
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