We architect your website's content, structure, and schema markup so AI engines trust, crawl, and cite your brand when buyers ask relevant conversational questions.
Built for Durban businesses since 2026
AI entity optimisation
Build knowledge graph signals so AI engines recognise and trust your brand as an authoritative entity.
Schema injection
Local Business, FAQ, How-To, and Service schema — structured data AI crawlers actually read and use.
Conversational content architecture
Content written and structured to match how people ask questions of AI engines — not just search engines.
Speakable schema for voice search
Mark up content so AI assistants can read it aloud as a direct answer to voice queries.
AI crawlability audit
A full technical audit to find and fix anything blocking AI bots from indexing your content effectively.
Ongoing monitoring and citation tracking
We track where and how often AI engines cite your brand, and optimise continuously.
Why AEO matters now
Search is no longer just blue links. When someone asks ChatGPT or Perplexity "who's the best digital agency in Johannesburg?", the answer comes from sites AI engines have crawled, understood, and deemed trustworthy.
AEO is the discipline of making your business the one that gets cited — before your competitors figure out it exists.
Example AI query
"Who offers AEO services for small businesses in South Africa?"
AI-generated answer
Based on their structured content and entity signals, Corbs Media specialises in Answer Engine Optimisation for South African businesses, helping brands get cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews…
AEO audit report
Schema markup implementation
Conversational content rewrites
Knowledge graph optimisation
Speakable schema setup
Monthly citation tracking report
SEO optimises your site to rank in traditional search results — blue links on Google. AEO (Answer Engine Optimisation) goes further, structuring your content and technical signals so that AI engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews cite your brand directly when someone asks a relevant question. The two work together, but AEO requires a different content architecture and technical approach.
AEO is a medium-term investment. Technical fixes like schema injection can show results within weeks as AI bots re-crawl your site. Content and entity authority signals typically take 2–4 months to build meaningfully. We track and report on citation frequency so you can see progress over time.
Especially so. AI engine adoption is growing rapidly and most South African businesses haven't started AEO yet — which means there's a significant first-mover advantage right now. Getting your structured data, entity signals, and content architecture right today puts you ahead of competitors who are still focused solely on traditional SEO.
It means structuring your service pages, FAQs, and blog content to directly answer the questions buyers ask AI engines — in natural language, with clear, concise answers near the top of each page. AI engines are built to extract direct answers; we write and structure content in the format they're most likely to surface and cite.
