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GEO and AEO agency in Montreal: get your business cited in AI answers
When a Montreal customer asks ChatGPT for advice, your business can be among the sources it cites.
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SEO Montreal™ tests your prompts in French and English, makes your site readable for AI crawlers, then measures your citations every month, as part of your SEO mandate.
Definition
What is a GEO agency in Montreal?
A GEO agency in Montreal prepares your business to be cited when a customer queries a generative engine: Google’s AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot or Claude. GEO (generative engine optimization) extends organic SEO into generative search. In its Webmaster Guidelines, Bing defines it as work on a piece of content’s eligibility to serve as grounding and as a reference in AI responses.
The terms AI SEO, AI search optimization and AEO (answer engine optimization) describe the same work. Our SEO agency in Montreal does it for businesses that want to be found where their customers now ask their questions.
GEO services for Montreal businesses
A GEO mandate brings together five workstreams. Fixes are made directly on your WordPress, Shopify, Wix, Webflow or React site, by the GEO specialists who ran the audit.
GEO audit of your Montreal prompts
We ask AI tools the questions your Montreal customers ask them, in both languages: "commercial cleaning company Montreal", "meilleure clinique de physiothérapie près du Plateau". Prompt by prompt, we record the business cited and the page that serves as its source, then your share of voice. On the Google side, traffic from AI Overviews (impressions, clicks, click-through rate) is included in the Search Console Performance report, under the "Web" search type.
Your Montreal pages open to AI crawlers
We open your robots.txt to each platform’s crawler: OAI-SearchBot for ChatGPT search, PerplexityBot for Perplexity, Claude-SearchBot for Claude and Googlebot for Google. Google says it processes JavaScript that isn’t blocked; the other platforms don’t specify this in their documentation, so we make sure your key text also displays without JavaScript, through server-side rendering (SSR) if needed. Since Bing’s guidelines also apply to Copilot answers, we check that your pages are indexed in Bing and notify it of every new URL through IndexNow.
Montreal service pages that answer first
We rewrite your service pages so they answer from the very first sentence: the service and the neighbourhood served, then the price or its range. Google explains that its AI features may run several related searches across subtopics, a technique called "query fan-out", without requiring you to break content into small chunks. Bing also recommends naming your entities clearly and placing key information at the top of the page. Your own data, real turnaround times and concrete cases give the page what Google calls "non-commodity" content, useful beyond generalities.
Consistent Google profile and entity in Montreal
We align your name, address and phone number (NAP) across your website, your Google Business Profile and the directories where you’re listed, on your French and English pages alike. Schema.org markup in JSON-LD, faithful to the visible text, completes this work. Our tests also catch hallucinations, such as wrong hours or a wrong price that a large language model attributes to you.
Mentions in Greater Montreal sources
We earn editorial links and guest articles in Montreal media and industry directories, as well as mentions in the directories of business associations and neighbourhood business development corporations (SDCs). AI answers cite these third-party pages too. Your Google reviews, obtained without incentives, are part of the tracking, as is your brand’s reputation on Reddit, Quora and Wikipedia.
Your AI visibility, tested for free
Tell us your website: we ask AI tools your key questions in French and English, then show you who they cite today.
Everything about GEO in Montreal
Bilingual GEO in Montreal
In Montreal, the same business’s customers may ask their questions in French or in English. An AI tool can cite different sources from one language to the other, so our GEO strategy treats these two markets separately in every tracking run.
Bilingual Montreal prompts and FR and EN pages
We test every prompt in French, then in English, and compare the sources cited. When your site exists in both languages, we check that each version has its own pages, hreflang tags and markup, so the right version can be picked up in the right language.
Shops, clinics and firms in Montreal neighbourhoods
For a local query, an AI answer may name a few businesses, such as a dental clinic in Rosemont or a renovation contractor in Plateau-Mont-Royal. GEO then builds on the local SEO described on our pages for healthcare clinics and professionals, law firms and construction contractors.
B2B, SaaS and e-commerce companies in Montreal
A Montreal company that sells across Canada or internationally may be compared by AI tools with competitors from anywhere. Your product pages and feature pages then become possible sources for those comparisons, using the method of our B2B SEO, SaaS SEO and e-commerce SEO mandates.
Our GEO method for Montreal businesses
Our mandates follow five steps, from the baseline review to monthly optimization, applied here to generative engines.
1. Montreal citation baseline and technical audit
We record your current citations on a set of prompts agreed with you, then audit crawler access, page rendering and structured data. You receive a prioritized action plan, with quick wins at the top.
2. Prioritizing the pages that sell in Montreal
Some prompts come right before a purchase, others from simple curiosity. Those with purchase intent for your most profitable services go to the top of the list, along with the pages that answer them.
3. Fixes on your FR and EN pages
We apply the fixes ourselves: robots.txt, HTML rendering, structured data, heading structure, FAQPage markup faithful to the visible text and new service pages. Before anything goes live, you approve every text in Google Docs.
4. Monthly FR and EN citation tracking
The prompt set agreed at the audit is run again every month, in French and English, to count your citations and your share of voice. We compare these results with AI referral traffic and the inquiries you receive. You choose the reporting format: a monthly report or a meeting, as you prefer.
5. Optimization against Montreal competitors
After each model update, the list of cited sources can shift. We then rework the pages that lost a citation and add your customers’ new questions. The mandate continues month to month; 30 days’ notice is enough to end it.
GEO agency pricing in Montreal
At SEO Montreal™, GEO is part of the SEO mandate: a focused mandate starts at $1,500 per month, a growth mandate runs around $2,000 per month, and a large site gets a custom quote. The budget depends mostly on the number of pages to fix and the number of prompts tracked in both languages. The same mandate includes Google Ads management, with no management fee.
How do you choose a GEO agency in Montreal?
A few verifiable criteria help you compare GEO agencies before you sign:
- A live test. The agency runs your prompts in front of you and shows who gets cited today.
- Measured promises. No legitimate agency can guarantee rankings; Bing itself writes that GEO guarantees neither grounding nor citations.
- Both languages. In Montreal, tracking done in French only leaves out part of your customers.
- Execution included. Fixes are made on your site by the team that ran the audit.
- Measurement tied to sales. Citations, share of voice, referral traffic and inquiries received, all in the same report.
- A flexible contract. A month-to-month mandate lets the results justify what comes next.
To apply these criteria to our agency, book a 30-minute consultation: we’ll run the test with you.
Our GEO team, based in Montreal
From Montreal, SEO Montreal™ focuses on search: SEO and GEO. Its 500+ clients come from more than 25 industries. Its founder, Raphaël Larouche, leads a team that makes the changes on your site itself. Before extending a GEO recommendation to your pages, we verify it in AI tools, in French and English.
For a business in Quebec City, Sherbrooke or Gatineau, our GEO agency in Quebec page presents the same work across the province.
FAQ about your GEO agency in Montreal
GEO is included in SEO Montreal™’s SEO mandate, with no separate invoice. A focused mandate starts at $1,500 per month and a growth mandate runs around $2,000 per month. In Montreal, the amount depends mostly on the volume of pages to rework and the number of prompts tracked in French and English. Your Google Ads campaigns are managed with no management fee.
No. A generated answer can change from one session to the next, and Bing states in its guidelines that GEO guarantees neither grounding nor citations. An agency can increase the likelihood of being cited: a site crawlers can read, pages that answer clearly, a consistent entity and mentions in reliable sources. That likelihood is then measured every month on a fixed set of prompts.
No, it builds on it. For AI Overviews, Google requires the page to be indexed and eligible to be shown with a snippet in Google Search, with no additional special optimization. Bing’s guidelines also apply to Copilot answers. Solid organic SEO therefore remains the foundation. GEO adds AI crawler access, direct answers, a consistent entity and off-site mentions.
Not for Google: its guide to generative AI features says these files aren’t necessary and that Google Search ignores them. Chrome’s Lighthouse tool does, however, check for an llms.txt file intended for AI agents, treating it as optional. Creating one costs little and serves agents; crawler access and citable content remain the priority.
That choice is separate from your visibility in ChatGPT. OpenAI separates GPTBot, which collects content to train its models, from OAI-SearchBot, which powers its search. Its documentation allows about 24 hours for a robots.txt change to apply to search. Anthropic likewise distinguishes ClaudeBot and Claude-SearchBot, and Perplexity describes PerplexityBot as its search crawler. You can block training and keep search open.
They can cite different sources depending on the language of the question, because the pages and media available differ from one language to the other. So we test each prompt in both languages and measure your share of voice separately. If you also serve the island’s English-speaking customers, a complete English page gives AI tools a source to cite in that language.
Yes, especially for local queries where AI may name a few businesses, such as a plumber in Villeray or a caterer in Mile End. When your Google profile, reviews, directory listings and website all say the same thing, AI finds consistent information to reuse. For a local business, we usually start with the focused mandate, from $1,500 per month.
Your prompt set runs every month in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, Claude and AI Overviews, in French and English. We count your citations and your competitors’ share of voice, then compare these figures with referral traffic and the quote requests received. You choose the reporting format: a monthly report or a meeting, as you prefer.
A GEO audit for your Montreal business
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