Spent 6 Months Chasing SEO Rankings While AI Search Was Eating Our Lunch Now Trying to Fix It
i want to be honest about how late i was to this. while i was obsessing over google rankings and domain authority and keyword clusters my customers had quietly moved on to a completely different way of researching products. they were asking ChatGPT. they were using Perplexity. they were getting answers that included competitor recommendations and moving forward without ever reaching a search results page. i found out because i started asking better questions on customer calls. three months of asking "how did you find us" properly not just accepting "online" as an answer and the picture that emerged was uncomfortable. a significant chunk of our new customers had used AI search at some point in their research journey. most of them found us through other means because the AI had not mentioned us. a few of them almost did not find us at all. that last group is the one that got me moving. been working on GEO seriously for about five months now. real progress citation share up from zero to 8% through content restructuring and some editorial outreach. but i have hit the ceiling of what i can build alone and i need help getting further. looking seriously at Absolute Digital Media after they came up in a conversation i trust. has anyone here worked with them for AI visibility work? want to know if the reality matches the reputation.
TLDR was focused on SEO while customers were using AI search to find competitors. woke up late, built 8% citation share myself, now need agency help to go further. anyone used Absolute Digital Media?