GEO & AI Visibility Audit for Trade Businesses


GEO and AI Visibility Audit for UK Trade Businesses — from £97 — AJ Web Design Cambridge

ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews are answering “best plumber in Cambridge” right now. Most trade business websites aren’t structured for AI tools to extract and cite them — they get skipped entirely. This audit tells you where your site stands across five AI visibility layers and gives you a ranked fix list with no fluff.

The GEO / AI Visibility Audit is a one-off audit that checks whether your website is structured for AI search tools to extract and cite your content. It covers five visibility layers — extractability, retrieval signals, entity density, experience signals, and freshness — and delivers a prioritised fix list. Price: from £97 one-off. Delivered in 3 working days.
From £97one-off, no retainer
3working days to deliver
5AI visibility layers checked

Five AI visibility layers, each scored and fixed

The audit runs your trade website against five layers that determine whether AI tools extract, attribute, and cite your content. Each layer is scored with specific fixes ranked by impact.

Layer 1

Extractability

Can AI tools pull clean, standalone answers from your pages? Checks declarative section openings, FAQ structure, and whether your content makes sense out of context.

Layer 2

Retrieval signals

Does your content match the queries AI systems are asked? Checks keyword specificity, entity naming, and whether your services are described in the language customers actually use.

Layer 3

Entity density

Are named entities — your trade, location, qualifications, brand — present in sufficient density for AI to build a knowledge graph around your business?

Layer 4

Experience signals

Does your content demonstrate real-world experience? Checks for first-person accounts, specific project references, and named credentials that AI systems use to assess authority.

Layer 5

Freshness

Does your content signal that it’s current? Checks for year references, recent dates, and content that reflects 2026 conditions rather than outdated information.

The audit also flags technical blockers that prevent AI crawlers from reading your pages at all — JavaScript-rendered content, missing schema types, and noindex tags on pages that should be visible to AI systems.

For trade businesses that want to know where they stand

The GEO audit is the right starting point if you have a live website and want to understand whether AI search tools can find and cite your business. It works for plumbers, electricians, builders, plasterers, tilers, painters, cleaners, and gardeners across Cambridge and the rest of the UK. It also makes sense before committing to the AI Overviews optimisation service — the audit shows the baseline, the monthly work moves you from there toward consistent citations.

Already have guides published on your site? The audit is especially useful if you’ve already been publishing content but aren’t appearing in AI Overviews or Perplexity answers. It often reveals a single structural fix that unlocks citations across multiple pages.

GEO audit vs traditional SEO audit

Both audits are useful. They check different things. If you’ve had an SEO audit recently, a GEO audit is still worth doing — it covers ground that SEO tools don’t touch.

What it checks Traditional SEO Audit GEO Audit (£97+)
Google keyword rankings Yes Indirect
Backlinks and domain authority Yes No
AI extractability of content No Yes
Entity density for AI knowledge graphs No Yes
Appearance in ChatGPT / Perplexity answers No Yes
Google AI Overviews visibility No Yes
Schema type completeness for AI Partial Yes

Three options. One price per scope.

The £97 covers a single page — homepage or one service page — with a full 5-layer assessment and prioritised fix list. The full-site option adds up to 10 pages. The £297 option includes implementation: I make all the changes identified in the audit, no extra charge.

ScopeWhat’s includedPrice
Single page Homepage or one service page — full 5-layer audit + fix list + PDF £97
Full site Up to 10 pages — full 5-layer audit + prioritised fix list + PDF £197
Full site + fixes Everything above, plus I implement all the changes for you £297

To book: call 07549 636 200 or send a message with your website URL. I’ll confirm scope and timeline within one working day.


Tools and methods used in every audit

The audit combines manual content review with structured data checks and AI tool sampling. No automated reports — each layer is assessed against current AI behaviour.

ChatGPT Perplexity Google AI Overviews schema.org JSON-LD FAQPage schema Google Search Console PageSpeed Insights Screaming Frog Structured Data Testing

What clients say

“I had no idea ChatGPT was being used to find local tradespeople. AJ ran the audit on my site and found three things that were blocking me. Fixed them in a week and I started showing up in AI answers shortly after.”

Paul H. — Electrician, Cambridge

“I’d been writing guides for my site for months and getting nothing from AI searches. The audit showed my content wasn’t structured for extraction. Two structural changes later and Perplexity was citing my pages.”

Karen B. — Builder, Huntingdon

“Worth every penny of the £97. The fix list was specific — not ‘improve your content’ but actual line-by-line changes. I did them myself in an afternoon. Now showing up where I wasn’t before.”

Tom S. — Plumber, St Neots


Frequently asked questions about the GEO audit

GEO — Generative Engine Optimisation — is the practice of structuring your website so AI search tools can extract and cite your content. As Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity answer more local service questions directly, businesses whose content is structured for extraction get cited — and those whose isn’t get skipped. The audit tells you which category you’re in and what to change.
A traditional SEO audit checks keywords, backlinks, and technical factors that affect Google rankings. A GEO audit checks whether AI systems can extract and attribute your content — declarative section structure, entity density, schema types, and whether key content is in raw HTML rather than JavaScript. Both are useful; they check different things.
Three working days from receiving your website URL. Full-site audits covering up to 10 pages are typically completed within 3–4 working days.
The £297 option includes implementation — I make the structural and content changes identified in the audit. This covers rewriting section openings, adding missing schema, restructuring FAQ content, and fixing any technical AI-crawl blockers.
Many of the changes that improve AI visibility also improve traditional Google rankings — declarative headings, entity density, structured FAQs, and fast-loading clean HTML all contribute to both. The overlap is significant.
Yes — the audit analyses an existing website. If you don’t have one yet, a Starter Site or Professional Site is the first step. Once you have a live site, the GEO audit tells you how well it performs in AI search and what to fix.
A PDF with each of the 5 layers scored, annotated page screenshots showing specific issues, and a prioritised fix list ordered by impact. Most clients work through the list themselves or choose the £297 option where I implement the fixes.

Cambridge GEO audits for trade businesses across the East of England

AJ Web Design is based in Cambridge and delivers GEO and AI visibility audits for sole traders and small trade businesses across Cambridgeshire and the wider UK. Areas covered include Cambridge, Ely, Huntingdon, St Ives, St Neots, Newmarket, Peterborough, Saffron Walden, Royston, and Bury St Edmunds, as well as Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, and Suffolk. The audit is delivered remotely as a PDF — all I need is your website URL.

Ready to find out where you stand?

Drop me a message or call and I’ll confirm your site scope and have the audit back within 3 working days.

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