ROVQIX optimises websites for AI answer engines: structuring content into self-contained, extractable answers, making it available in server-rendered HTML, implementing entity-level structured data, and publishing machine-readable summaries so systems like ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews can cite you accurately.
AI systems do not rank ten links. They synthesise an answer and cite a few sources. Being citable is a different problem from ranking, and most sites are accidentally bad at it.
No JS gate on content
Self-contained answers
Machine-readable
Published and maintained
Question-shaped headings with a direct answer immediately beneath, so a passage stands alone when lifted out of context.
Substantive content in the initial HTML, because many AI crawlers execute little or no JavaScript.
Organization, Person, Article, FAQ and Breadcrumb schema connected so machines understand who is saying what.
An llms.txt index of your key content, kept current from the same source that generates your sitemap.
Deciding deliberately which AI crawlers to allow, and confirming robots.txt and WAF rules match that decision.
Tracking whether your brand appears in AI answers for your priority questions, and what gets cited instead.
Structuring content and markup so AI systems can extract a correct, self-contained answer and attribute it to you.
| Traditional SEO | Answer engine optimisation | |
|---|---|---|
| Goal | Rank in a list of links | Be cited in a synthesised answer |
| Unit of value | The page | The passage |
| Click outcome | User visits your site | User may never click |
| Key signal | Links and relevance | Extractability and clarity |
| Format | Comprehensive pages | Self-contained, structured answers |
The two overlap heavily — a page that ranks well is more likely to be cited. The difference is that AEO cares about whether a single paragraph makes sense on its own, without the surrounding page.
It is a business decision, not a technical one, and it differs per crawler. Blocking training crawlers has no effect on whether you appear in live retrieval answers. Blocking retrieval crawlers removes you from those answers entirely.
No. It extends it. The same content quality and technical foundations matter; AEO adds structural requirements around extractability and entity clarity. Sites that rank well and are well structured tend to get cited most.
No, and nobody honestly can. There is no submission process and no ranking dashboard. What we can do is remove the technical reasons you are not being cited and structure content so you are a good candidate.
We track a defined set of questions across the major AI systems and record whether your brand appears and what is cited instead. It is sampling rather than exhaustive measurement, and we are clear about that limitation.
A plain-text file at your site root that lists your key content with short descriptions, in a form language models can consume cheaply. It is an emerging convention rather than a standard, but it is inexpensive to publish and maintain.
Indicative ranges in USD. Every engagement is quoted to a written scope before work starts, so the number you approve is the number you pay.
$1,500 – $3,500
1–2 weeks
Best for: Understanding why you are not being cited
$4,000 – $12,000
4–8 weeks
Best for: Restructuring content and markup to be citable
from $1,500 / month
Ongoing
Best for: Content programmes competing for citations
How we think about this work, in more depth.
AI SEO / AEO
A 30-minute call, then a written proposal with scope, price and timeline within two to three working days. No retainer required to get a real number, and no obligation if the answer is that we are not the right fit.