- Should I start with SEO or GEO?
- For most businesses, SEO first. Generative Engine Optimization depends on the same technical foundations SEO builds — a crawlable site, clear structure and accurate structured data — so GEO work on a site with none of that has very little to hold on to. The exception is a business that already ranks well and is simply absent from AI answers, where the foundations exist and GEO is the missing piece.
- Can I hire Elivate SEO for only one of the two?
- Yes. SEO and GEO are sold separately and a single-service engagement is common. They are offered together because the underlying work overlaps heavily, not because either requires the other to be bought.
- How long before SEO or GEO work shows results?
- Technical SEO fixes can register within weeks, while content and authority work is usually a three to six month horizon. GEO is less predictable: AI assistants update their sources on their own schedule, and no agency can observe how they choose them. Elivate SEO measures citations from the first day of an engagement so movement is visible as it happens rather than asserted afterwards.
- What does the free audit include?
- A crawl of the site covering indexation, site architecture, Core Web Vitals and structured data, plus a check of how AI assistants currently answer questions in the relevant category and whether the brand is named. It ends with a prioritised list of what to fix and a recommendation on whether SEO or GEO is the better starting point. There is no obligation to continue.