SEO and AEO for Australian businesses
Cortexa Signal
Your customers have not stopped searching. They have started asking instead. When someone asks ChatGPT or Google's AI who to call, one business gets named. If it is not you, you never find out. There is no lost-enquiry report.
The Foundation of Search Dominance
Cortexa Signal replaces guesswork with algorithmic precision. We establish a robust technical foundation and deploy AI to scale your semantic footprint rapidly.
You are probably invisible in the place buyers now start
Most Australian business owners can tell you their Google ranking. Almost none can tell you whether they get mentioned when a customer asks an AI assistant for a recommendation.
That is the gap. Traditional SEO measures a position on a page. Answer engine optimisation measures whether you are the answer at all. They are related, but they are not the same job, and most agencies are still only doing the first one.
We do both. Same engagement, same fee.
Technical foundation
Crawl and indexation audit, site architecture, page speed, structured data, internal link equity. The unglamorous work that determines whether anything else you do can rank. We fix the plumbing before we write a word.
Answer engine optimisation
Schema markup, entity clarity, and content structured so an AI can lift a clean answer out of it and attribute it to you. We track which engines cite you, for which questions, and which sources they are pulling instead.
Keyword and intent strategy
We target the searches that end in an enquiry, not the ones with the biggest volume. A term with 200 searches a month and clear buying intent beats one with 5,000 and none.
Content built to rank and to be cited
Human-briefed, AI-accelerated production, human-edited before it ships. Structured for search intent and for extraction.
Local and Google Business Profile
Where you serve a geographic market, we optimise the profile, the local pack signals, and the location pages that support them.
Reporting you can read
Rankings, organic traffic, AI citations, technical health. Live dashboard, not a monthly PDF you file without opening.
Why this is different
No lock-in contract. Thirty days notice, any time, for any reason. We earn next month every month.
Zero commission. We do not take a percentage of anything you spend. Our fee is our fee.
You deal with the founder. Not a junior account manager you meet once at the pitch and never again.
Speed. AI handles execution, so audits that take a traditional agency three weeks take us days. Strategy stays human, because that part does not scale and should not.
Process
Week 1. Baseline. Full technical audit, keyword landscape, AI visibility benchmark across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. You get the findings whether or not you continue.
Weeks 2 to 4. Foundation. Technical fixes, schema deployment, on-page optimisation. This is where most of the compounding value gets created.
Month 2 onward. Build. Content production, authority building, local signals, continuous technical maintenance.
Ongoing. Report and adjust. Monthly strategy call with Andrew. Live dashboard between calls.
Frequently asked questions (FAQ)
What is AEO?
AEO stands for answer engine optimisation. Where SEO works to rank your page in a list of results, AEO works to have your business named and cited in the answer itself, inside tools like ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Gemini. It relies on structured data, clear entity signals, and content written so a machine can extract a self-contained answer and attribute it to you.
Is AEO different from SEO, or is it just a new name for it?
They overlap but they are not the same. Strong technical SEO helps your AEO, because answer engines mostly draw on indexed content. But you can rank well in Google and still never be cited by an AI, usually because your content is not structured for extraction or your business entity is not clearly defined across the web. AEO addresses the second half.
Do I still need traditional SEO?
Yes. Google organic search still drives the majority of commercial discovery in Australia, and AI answer engines largely draw on the same indexed content. Weak SEO makes strong AEO nearly impossible. We treat them as one job.
How long before I see results?
Technical fixes can show movement within weeks. Ranking and citation gains on competitive commercial terms generally take three to six months, longer in crowded categories. Any agency promising page one in thirty days is either targeting terms nobody searches or is not being straight with you.
What does it cost?
Signal engagements start at $1,500 per month. No setup fee, no commission, no lock-in. The scope depends on your site size and how competitive your category is, which is what the first conversation is for.
Where does the human part come in?
AI is very good at execution. Producing content at volume, auditing thousands of URLs, monitoring rankings, spotting patterns in data. What it does not do is understand why your best customers buy, which of your services actually carry margin, or what your competitor is about to do. That is the strategy layer, and a senior human does it. The AI makes that strategy cheap to execute. It does not replace it.
Do you work with businesses outside Melbourne?
Yes. We are based at 101 Collins Street and most clients are Australian, but search work does not require proximity. We run engagements across every state.
Find out if you are being cited
We will run a visibility check on your domain across Google and the major AI answer engines and show you exactly which questions your competitors are being named for and you are not. It takes us a few days. It costs you nothing, and there is no obligation attached to it.
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