Inspired Search

SEO and GEO. Found by Google, and by AI.

More and more people skip the results page and just ask ChatGPT, Claude or Perplexity. They get one answer back, no links to scan. If your business isn't in it, you're not in the conversation.

I build sites that win in both places, the old way and the new. Nothing bolted on afterwards.

Service SEO & Generative Engine Optimisation
Area served Norfolk · Suffolk · East Anglia
Experience 25 years
Start with A site audit

SEO, found by search engines

SEO is getting found by search engines. Google reads your site, works out what it's about, and decides where you rank. This is well-trodden ground, and I've been doing it for 25 years.

GEO, found by AI

GEO is getting found by AI. Generative engines don't rank a list, they write an answer. To be in that answer, an AI has to be able to read your site cleanly, understand it, and trust it enough to quote it. Most sites fail on the first step.

The good news is the two pull in the same direction. A site built properly for AI is usually a better site for Google too. Fast, clean, well structured, easy to understand. Do it right and you don't choose between them. You get both.

SEO ranked versus GEO cited Five ranked search positions converge into a query, then source paths resolve into one cited generative answer. SEO RANKED GEO CITED 1 2 3 4 5
Found in search. Cited in answers.

Built in, not bolted on

Most people treat search as a thing you bolt on after the site is finished. A plugin, a checklist, a monthly retainer with a spreadsheet attached.

I don't work that way. The way a site is built decides whether it can be found at all. Clean semantic HTML, structured data baked in from the start, pages that load in under a second, content that actually answers the questions people ask. You can't sprinkle that on at the end. It's the foundation.

Design and search, together

That's the whole point of doing design and search together. The site and its visibility come from the same place, joined up from day one.

I wrote a piece explaining all of this using the World Cup, for anyone who'd rather not sit through the jargon. Same idea, fewer acronyms.

Read it in Thinking →

How I do it

No secret sauce. Just the work done properly.

  • Clean, semantic HTML that AI and Google can both read without a fight
  • Structured data and schema so machines understand what your pages actually mean
  • Page speed treated as a feature, not an afterthought
  • Content written to answer real questions, not to please a keyword tool
  • Internal linking and structure that helps you get quoted, not just crawled
  • A site you can measure, so you can see what's working

Proof

I don't just talk about this. I build it.

This site

Hand-coded, no CMS, no framework. Structured data from day one and pages that load instantly. It's the clearest demonstration I have that a site built for search visibility genuinely outperforms a templated one. You're reading the case study.

  • Semantic HTML
  • Structured Data
  • Performance
  • AI-Ready
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Tom Appleton Arts

A London artist who needed to be found. Service and FAQ schema, a properly configured setup, internal links that make sense, and a site that reads cleanly to both Google and AI.

  • Schema
  • SEO
  • GEO
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Gardner Denley

A full SEO and GEO audit for this Cambridge property consultancy, framed as a forward-looking opportunity rather than a list of faults. A clear picture of where they stood and where the gains were.

  • Audit
  • SEO
  • GEO
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Best recorded website performance scores Animated circular charts show the best mobile and desktop PageSpeed results: performance 100, accessibility 96, best practices 100 and SEO 100. A connected trace shows fast loading metrics. BEST RECORDED · MOBILE + DESKTOP · JULY 2026 100 PERFORMANCE 96 ACCESSIBILITY 100 BEST PRACTICES 100 SEO FASTEST RECORDED 0.3s FCP 0.5s LCP 0ms BLOCKING 0 LAYOUT SHIFT 0.9s SPEED INDEX
Fast isn't a claim. It's measured.

SEO gets you found by search engines like Google. GEO gets you found by AI tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity, which write a single answer instead of listing links. Done properly, the same work helps with both.

If your customers ask AI for recommendations, and more of them do every month, then yes. GEO is how you end up in that answer instead of watching a competitor take it.

Usually, yes. I start with an audit, tell you what's holding the site back, and fix what's worth fixing. Sometimes that's small tweaks. Sometimes it's a rebuild. I'll be straight with you either way.

£225 plus VAT, fixed. Everything I find goes into a written report, branded to your business, that's yours to keep whoever ends up doing the work. And if I can't run the audit and there's nothing to report, there's no charge.

SEO is a slow burn, weeks to months rather than days. GEO can move faster, because far fewer businesses are doing it yet. Either way I'd rather set honest expectations than promise page one by Friday.

Where to start

The easiest first step is an audit. I look at your site the way Google and an AI would, and tell you plainly where you stand, what's holding you back, and what's worth fixing first. It's a fixed £225 + VAT, and everything I find goes into a written report, branded to your business, that's yours to keep whoever does the work. If I can't run the audit and there's nothing to report, there's no charge. Request an audit →

What happens next

From there it's either a set of fixes, a rebuild, or an ongoing hand on the tiller. Whatever fits. No obligation to do the work with me afterwards, though most people do.

Want to know where you stand?

Start with an audit. I'll look at your site the way Google and an AI would, and tell you plainly what's worth fixing first. £225 + VAT, fixed. If there's nothing to report, there's no charge.

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