SEO + AEO, explained for owners

Your next customer is asking a machine who to hire.

Some of them type "furnace repair near me" into Google. A growing number ask ChatGPT, Siri, or Google's AI overview instead — and take the first answer. Discoverability means showing up in both places. That's the entire job of our Growth plan.

What is SEO? What is AEO? And why should an owner care?

SEO — Search Engine Optimization

Showing up when people search

SEO is the work that makes your website appear when someone Googles what you do — "bookkeeper for contractors," "barber open Sunday." It covers your page content, your site speed, your local listings, and the technical signals Google reads.

For a service business, ranking in the local results for your trade is worth more than any ad budget, because it keeps paying after the work is done.

AEO — Answer Engine Optimization

Showing up when people ask

AEO is the newer half: making your business the answer when someone asks an AI assistant "who's a good electrician near me?" AI systems pull from structured, clearly-written, trustworthy web content — and most small business sites give them nothing to work with.

PressAura sites are built machine-readable from day one: structured data, clear service descriptions, FAQ content in the exact format answer engines consume.

A setup happens once. An engine runs every month.

Most "SEO included" offers mean someone filled in your page titles at launch and never looked again. The PressAura discoverability engine is ongoing work, done automatically:

Continuous

On-page optimization

Titles, descriptions, headings, internal links, and image data — reviewed and tuned on an ongoing cycle as search behaviour shifts, not set once and forgotten.

Local

Local search signals

Service-area pages, consistent business data, and the markup that feeds map results — the layer that decides who shows up for "near me" searches in your area.

Machine-readable

Structured data for AI

Schema markup describing your services, prices, hours, and FAQs in the format Google's AI overviews and assistants like ChatGPT can actually parse and cite.

Compounding

Question-led content

Pages built around the real questions customers ask before hiring — "how much does duct cleaning cost?" — which is precisely the content answer engines reward.

Measurable

Visibility you can see

Plain-language reporting: what you rank for, what changed, what it means. No 40-page PDF of jargon. ROI you can read in two minutes.

Yours

Equity you keep

Every ranking gained belongs to your domain, not ours. Because the site is real WordPress and the domain is yours, the discoverability you build is a business asset you own outright.

The search results page is being rewritten.

AI summaries now sit above the traditional results for a growing share of searches, and assistants answer "who should I hire" questions directly. Businesses that are structured to be cited get recommended. Businesses that aren't become invisible — even with a decent old-style site. Getting your business machine-readable early is the single highest-leverage move a local service company can make this year.

Be the answer, not the afterthought.

The discoverability engine ships with the Growth plan at $59/month — less than one decent lead is worth in most trades. Start with a free build and upgrade when you see it.

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