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Answer engine optimization. The practical work of being mentionable and citable when a person asks a question in ChatGPT Search, Perplexity, Gemini, or an AI Overview.
answer engines · updated October 2026
Qureoon helps a business be understood when someone asks an AI for the service. The work is a question list, a baseline of mentions and citations, and pages those systems can actually fetch. It does not control ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, or Google, and it does not promise the recommendation.
MentionThe business is named in the answer. That is not a link, and it is not a lead.
what we record
CitationA source is linked beside the answer. We can improve the page. A publisher decides whether to cite it.
what we record
A leadA person who can buy. That is outbound, by email and LinkedIn. A separate piece of work.
what we do not confuse
If customers look for a place, the same work covers ChatGPT’s local answers and map cards. Showing up is measured. It is not guaranteed.
Answer engine optimization. The practical work of being mentionable and citable when a person asks a question in ChatGPT Search, Perplexity, Gemini, or an AI Overview.
Generative engine optimization. The same problem, named from the model’s side: whether generated answers can find, trust, and quote the site. It is not a second product with a secret markup.
The foundation underneath both. If a page cannot be crawled, canonicalized, and understood, an AI search product that uses the web has little to retrieve. How they differ.
An engagement starts with the questions a buyer actually asks, not a keyword list. Core is 50 of them. Scale is 200. Authority is 400. Prices and what each month includes are on packages. Three months, one brand, one site, one market.
A written baseline: the question, the date, the product, whether the name appeared, whether a URL was cited, and who was cited instead. Then a short list of pages and technical fixes, in that order. Then the same questions read again, so a change can be compared with the baseline. Not a screenshot of one lucky answer.
A guaranteed place in the answer. A guaranteed map pin. A promised number of leads. Hidden text, fake reviews, or instructions meant to steer a model. Those are refused because they do not survive contact with a real crawler or a real buyer.
The longer explanations live on their own pages, in the same voice, so a person can use them without hiring anyone.
How ChatGPT Search differs from a chat that never looks at the web, how to check OAI-SearchBot, and what to fix before you blame the model.
Where the words overlap, and how to decide which work a business actually needs.
A mention, a citation, a referral, and a lead are four different events. One answer is not a ranking.
What consistent business information can do, and what no one can promise about a map result.
The question list, the baseline across the four products in scope, and the first pages. Technical blocks — a robots rule, a wrong canonical, a page that only exists after a click — are fixed before new copy is written. The method is on method.
Core is $2,500 a month. Scale is $5,000. Authority is $8,500. Each is three months. The difference is the number of questions and the amount of page work, not a promise of a higher place in an answer. See the packages.