Marketing · SEO, AEO & GEO

Drive organic traffic. Attract customers.

Deep page-cluster architectures built to be cited, not just crawled. Rank in Google, get quoted by ChatGPT and Perplexity, get cited by Gemini — one program, one team.

Corum8 runs SEO, AEO and GEO programs for Web3, AI and fintech companies — SEO for Google, AEO for AI answer engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity, and GEO for citation in Gemini and AI Overviews. All three share one underlying discipline: publish genuinely authoritative, entity-dense content structured the way AI parsers and Google both prefer.

What's included

Everything under “search” that we actually run

Intent mapping & keyword research

The full spectrum of questions your buyer asks — informational, comparison, cost and solution queries — not just high-volume short-tail phrases.

Technical site audit

Crawl health, rendering, Core Web Vitals, schema coverage and internal linking — fixed before content investment starts paying off.

Content architecture (pillar-cluster)

Interlinked pillar and cluster pages that tell Google and AI engines the semantic relationships between your content — 260-page builds when the vertical demands it.

AEO-optimized content production

Direct-answer blocks, FAQ schema, entity density and fact density — content written to be quoted, not just indexed.

Structured data & schema discipline

Comprehensive schema per page type, validated against schema.org and Google's rich-results tester — some of the highest-leverage technical work in 2026 SEO.

Link earning, not link building

Digital PR, original data-driven content and tool-led content that earns links signaling real authority — not PBN echoes.

AI-citation monitoring

Tracking which AI engines cite your content, for which queries, in which contexts — then closing the gaps.

Rank tracking & reporting

Organic traffic, keyword-cluster coverage and AI-citation rate, reported in writing rather than as ranking screenshots.

Corum8 team working the floor during a live engagement

How the work actually runs

SEO in 2026 is a technical discipline first, a content discipline second

Most of the SEO budget a team burns on writing gets wasted if the site underneath it can't be crawled, rendered and understood cleanly. We start with the audit — Core Web Vitals, rendering, schema coverage, internal linking — because content built on a broken technical base never earns the ranking or the AI citation it should. That's also why the work sits with the same team writing the pages: the person deciding pillar-cluster architecture needs to see the crawl data, not read it in a handoff doc three weeks later.

Is this you?

Signals you need a serious search program

You don't need all of them. One is usually enough to justify the call.

Traffic peaked 18-24 months ago

Organic has been declining since — a Google Core Update or the AI-search shift is likely responsible.

Competitors win both rooms

They rank for your target terms in Google, and they get quoted in ChatGPT and Perplexity for the same queries.

Buyer research now starts in AI engines

You're launching in a category where the research happens in ChatGPT or Perplexity before anyone reaches your site.

Your content strategy is blog-only

The blogs don't rank, don't get quoted, and don't earn links — and nobody's sure why.

You're outgunned on depth

A 30-page site is competing against 300-page competitor sites in a vertical where depth signals authority.

AI Overviews appear — without you

You're seeing AI Overviews in Google SERPs for your target queries, and your brand isn't cited in them.

Sectors

Who we run search programs for

Depth, structure, entity density, genuine expertise.

Trading desk monitors showing market data

Web3 & Crypto Exchanges

260-page architectures for verticals where competitors run deep.

DeFi Protocols

Technical content that ranks without sacrificing accuracy.

AI Products & Platforms

Category-defining content in the fastest-moving SERP of all.

Team working through a plan on a wall of notes

B2B SaaS

Content that survives Helpful Content updates because it's actually helpful.

Card being tapped on a payment terminal

Fintech & Payments

Trust-heavy content built around named standards and real technical detail.

Contract being signed at a desk

Legal & RegTech

AEO programs targeting the AI answer engines buyers actually ask first.

Analytics charts on a monitor

HealthTech & Data Platforms

GEO work tuned for Gemini's citation preferences specifically.

A token on a launch pad with a rocket lifting away

Token Launches & NFT

Launch-window content built to rank before the news cycle moves on.

Process

How a search program runs, in practice

  1. 01

    Audit

    What's indexed, what ranks, what's cited today — the baseline that defines priorities.

  2. 02

    Map

    Intent and entity mapping across the full buyer journey, not just short-tail keywords.

  3. 03

    Build

    Technical fixes, pillar-cluster content and schema, shipped on a weekly cadence.

  4. 04

    Earn

    Digital PR and AI-citation monitoring compound the results over quarters, not weeks.

Case studies

Search work we've shipped

A Helpful Content hit that needed content pruning and rebuilding, and a thin site competing in a deep vertical that needed real cluster depth.

B2B SaaS

~4x organic traffic in 9 months

A B2B analytics SaaS had 18 months of declining organic after two Google Core Updates hit 180 pages of thin, keyword-targeted content. We pruned roughly 40% of existing pages, rebuilt 60 as genuinely authoritative cluster content with full schema, and ran a data-driven-content program that earned inbound links on its own.

Crypto Exchange

~6x organic traffic in year one

A global crypto exchange was running 25 pages against competitors at 200-300. We built a 260-page pillar-cluster architecture over eight months — full schema, authored use cases, real internal-link depth — and picked up citations in Perplexity and ChatGPT for category queries the brand had never ranked for in Google.

260+ Pages in largest cluster architecture
6x Peak organic traffic multiplier
47% Best AI-engine citation rate
Zero Google manual actions on our builds

Why Corum8

Why teams running search programs work with us

In SEO since 2016

Through Penguin, Panda, Hummingbird, RankBrain, BERT, Helpful Content and now the AI-search era — the discipline was shaped by watching what survived every shift.

One team, one dashboard

Keyword research, content, technical engineering, schema, link earning and AI-citation optimization under one roof, not five vendors.

AEO before it had a name

AI-citation work has been live for clients since 2023 — before most agencies had a name for it.

We prune as readily as we publish

Pruning ~40% of a client's existing content is sometimes the highest-leverage move in the whole engagement.

Paired with PR and community

PR earns the links SEO can't buy; community creates the engagement signals Google weighs. Search works better integrated.

Clean link profiles

Zero Google manual actions across our builds — link earning that survives spam-link cleanups because it was never spammy.

AEO & GEO tactics

The AI-citation layer, specifically

Ranking in Google and getting cited by an LLM reward similar things, but the citation step needs its own tactics.

Direct-answer authoring

40-60 word summaries at the top of every page, written as the complete answer an AI engine can lift verbatim.

FAQ & HowTo schema

Structured markup that matches real query language, so answer engines can map your content to the question being asked.

Entity-density work

Named blockchains, tools and standards woven through body copy — the associations AI models map to a knowledge graph.

AI-citation monitoring

Profound, AthenaHQ and Otterly track brand presence in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude answers, query by query.

Digital PR for citations

Earned coverage from sites AI engines already trust compounds faster than any on-page tactic alone.

Multi-engine ground-truth testing

Direct query testing across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude — verifying what the monitoring tools report against what's actually happening.

FAQ

Questions worth a direct answer

  1. SEO optimizes for Google rankings; AEO optimizes for being quoted by AI answer engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity; GEO is the closely related discipline of getting cited specifically in generative AI answers, including Google's AI Overviews. In 2026 these three have converged — the tactics that win Google rankings (depth, structure, entity density, schema) also win AI citations, so we run them as one integrated program.

  2. Cost is driven by content scale, technical-debt remediation, competitive intensity, geographic coverage and speed expectations. A program building 60+ new pages, fixing a full technical backlog, earning links in a competitive vertical and monitoring AI citations is a different scope than doing one of those activities alone. We scope against the actual diagnosis.

  3. SEO moves on its own schedule, and the honest answer is that it depends on where you are starting. Technical fixes tend to surface first because they remove things actively holding the site back. Content programs take longer, because they have to be written, indexed and then earn their position. AI-citation improvements can move faster when the content base is already strong. What we will not do is put a date on it — anyone promising you a specific week is selling thin tactics or paid traffic labelled as SEO.

  4. Unedited AI content is a problem; AI-assisted content with expert review, fact-checking and original insight is fine and often the practical way to produce content at scale. Google's Helpful Content updates target low-effort AI output specifically — articles that just regurgitate what's already on the web. The test is quality, not whether AI touched the draft.

  5. A search-state audit, keyword and intent mapping, technical remediation, content strategy and production, schema implementation, link earning through digital PR, AI-citation monitoring, and transparent measurement. Paid search and CMS migration sit outside the core scope — we coordinate on the former and can support the latter, but they're typically separate work.

  6. Yes — we work with most CMSes, including WordPress, Webflow, Shopify, Sanity, Contentful, custom Next.js or Astro builds, and Framer, and rarely require platform migration. Migration only becomes necessary when server-side rendering is impossible on the current stack or indexation is broken at the platform level — the exception, not the rule.

  7. Through organic traffic, AI-citation rates and share-of-voice in target keyword clusters — not ranking screenshots or DR-score increases. Those are the things the work actually moves, so those are the things we report. You get a written review each cycle covering what changed, what it did and what we would do next. What that traffic is worth to your business is yours to measure — we do not claim it and we do not report on it.

  8. By publishing content that's structurally quotable — a direct-answer block up top, entity-dense body copy, FAQ schema, and specific numbers an AI model can lift with confidence — and backing it with earned citations from sites those models already trust. Generic, thinly-sourced content rarely gets pulled into an AI answer regardless of how well it ranks in Google.

  9. Yes — English-only is the lightest scope; adding EU multi-language, LatAm Spanish, MENA Arabic or APAC regional coverage requires language-specific content and in-market search-behavior research, which we scope as part of the program. Geographic coverage is one of the main drivers of program cost.

  10. Check whether your buyers research before they buy — and in most categories they do. Where people compare options, read documentation or ask an AI assistant before talking to sales, search and answer-engine work compound for years. We start by mapping the questions your buyers actually ask, so the investment goes behind demand that already exists rather than terms nobody searches. Where the audience genuinely does not research that way, we will say so and point the budget at the channels that reach them.

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