AI SEO in the Philippines
Getting named when ChatGPT, Gemini or Google's AI summaries answer a question about your industry. You may already be in most of those answers. We check with your customers' real questions, send you what came back, and only then talk about what is worth fixing.
Nobody has checked whether you have a problem.
AI SEO means two different things, and suppliers rarely say which one they are selling. The first is using AI tools to do ordinary SEO faster.
The second is this page: being named when ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity or Google's AI summaries answer a question about your industry. It is also sold as generative engine optimisation, or GEO, and as answer engine optimisation, or AEO.
Whether any of it applies to your business is a question with an answer, and getting it takes an afternoon. If your ordinary SEO is decent you may already be named in most of the answers that matter, because these systems mostly draw on sources the wider web already trusts. That is worth finding out before you buy a programme built on the assumption that you are invisible.
Being absent is invisible to you
You can see when you drop to position eight. You cannot see the answer that named three competitors and not you, because it was written once, for one person, and then discarded.
Being described wrongly is worse than being absent
Assistants assemble your business from whatever the web says about it. An old address, a service you stopped offering, a founding year that is wrong on one profile. The answer states it confidently, and the customer believes it.
The price being quoted is not built for you
Search for these services and the figure that comes back is five to fifteen thousand US dollars a month. That is an enterprise number from another market. Agencies here charge a fraction of it, and most Philippine businesses need a few hours of checking rather than a programme.
Check first, then fix what the check found.
Nobody can control what an assistant says. You can control what it finds when it goes looking, and whether that material agrees with itself. Often the check is the whole job.
Find out where you actually stand.
We ask the assistants the questions your customers ask, in the words your customers use, and record what comes back and what it cited. That is the baseline, and for a lot of businesses it is also the end of it. It samples a set of questions rather than measuring all of them, so we repeat it and keep every transcript.
- A fixed set of prompts, written from your real customer questions
- Run across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google's AI summaries
- Every answer and every citation recorded, so change is visible
- Factual errors about you logged separately and chased
Make the descriptions agree with each other.
A generative system reads how your business is described wherever it is described, then reconciles the versions. Where they disagree, it picks. We work on the wording itself: your own site, your social bios, and anything written about you elsewhere. Correcting the actual listings and map data is a separate job, and it sits on the Google Business Profile page.
- One description of what you do, agreed with you and used everywhere
- Social bios and about pages rewritten to match it
- Articles and write-ups about you corrected where the publisher will do it
- The gaps in what the web says about you filled deliberately
Make the pages easy to quote.
An assistant quoting a Philippine business has to find the claim, understand it, and attribute it. Pages that answer the question in the first two sentences, label their facts properly and let the crawlers in get quoted more often than pages that bury the point under an introduction.
- A direct answer at the top of each section, before the context
- Structured data where the page genuinely has something to label
- Named authors with real credentials, because attribution needs a person
- Crawler access decided on purpose, in one place, without contradictions
What the check actually looks at.
The evidence we collect, the mess we find, and the file almost nobody opens.
Which agency should I hire for SEO in Cebu?
Sources it used
reyesdigital.ph
Their own service page
clutch.co
Directory profile
cebubusiness.ph
Local press mention
Illustration. Businesses and answer are invented.
The answer, and what it was built from.
We record the answer and the sources under it. Whether your own page is one of them tells you more than any single score, and it is the number we report on.
What the web says about you
3 conflictsAn assistant reads all of these at once and writes one answer from them.
Your website
SEO, web design, Google Ads
Google Business Profile
Advertising agency
Facebook page
Est. 2019 · Mandaue
Directory listing
Old unit number
11 to 50 employees
Illustration of a typical audit. Details are invented.
Every place the web describes you.
Your site, your profiles, your listings and your press mentions, side by side. Almost every audit turns up three or four that disagree with each other. We rewrite the descriptions; the listing and map corrections are handled as profile work.
Who is allowed to read your site
robots.txt, checked line by line. A crawler listed twice with opposite rules decides for itself which one to obey.
GPTBot
ChatGPT
OAI-SearchBot
ChatGPT search
PerplexityBot
Perplexity
ClaudeBot
Claude
Google-Extended
Gemini training
llms.txt
Published, and it contradicts robots.txt
A real pattern we find often, including on our own site.
The file that decides who can read you.
A crawler listed twice with opposite instructions is undefined territory, and each company resolves it its own way. We find this constantly, including once on our own site.
A small, honest programme.
This is not a channel with its own budget yet. It is a check and a set of corrections that pay across ordinary search as well, which is the only reason we are comfortable selling it at all.
Prompt baseline
Twenty to forty real customer questions, in the wording a Philippine buyer would use, asked across the major assistants and recorded with their citations.
Monthly re-check
The same prompts, re-run every month, so you can watch it move.
Source consistency audit
Every public description of your business found and compared, with each contradiction listed and assigned to whoever can change it.
The corrections themselves
We do the fixing as well as the finding: descriptions, bios, third-party write-ups and the pages on your own site.
Crawler policy
One coherent decision about which AI crawlers may read you, written into robots.txt and llms.txt without contradictions.
Extractable page structure
Answer-first sections, question-shaped headings and structured data on the pages that carry your commercial claims.
Authorship and credentials
Real named people attached to your content, with the qualifications that make a citation defensible.
Error escalation
When an assistant states something false about you, we document it and pursue the correction through the source and the platform.
How the engagement runs.
Most of the work is in the first two months. After that it is a monthly measurement and a short list of fixes.
Baseline
We agree the prompts with you, run them, and hand you the transcripts. You will usually learn something uncomfortable here.
Weeks 1 to 2Fix the sources
Contradictions between your site, your profiles and the directories are resolved, and factual errors are corrected where they originate.
Weeks 2 to 6Make the site quotable
Answer-first structure, structured data, named authorship and a crawler policy that says one thing. This is also ordinary technical SEO work, which is why it pays either way.
Weeks 4 to 8Re-check and report
The same prompts, monthly, with the answers alongside last month's. Where nothing moved, we say so rather than finding a different number to show you.
Every month afterSix reasons, including the uncomfortable ones.
We measured this market ourselves
In August 2026 we audited ten agency sites in this market on crawler policy, structured data, named authorship and llms.txt. Seven of the ten already publish an llms.txt file, which is considerably further along than the imported reports assume. You get the findings that apply to your site, not a trend.
You get the transcripts, not a score
A visibility percentage is somebody's estimate dressed as a measurement. You get the actual questions, the actual answers and the actual citations, so you can judge the work without taking our word for any of it.
Scoped for a Philippine business
Everyone else selling this locally aims at enterprise and B2B software, at prices set in another market. We scope it in hours against what your business actually needs, which for most owners is a check, a handful of corrections, and nothing more.
It doubles as technical SEO
Clean structured data, answer-first pages and named authors help you in ordinary search too. If GEO turns out to matter less than expected, none of the work is wasted.
A named specialist you keep
Nicklas Dyrmose leads SEO at Siite and runs these engagements. The same person writes the prompts, reads the answers and explains them to you.
We will tell you when to skip it
For a business selling in one or two cities this is worth a few hours a quarter, not a budget line. If the check shows you are already being named, or your customers are not asking assistants about your category yet, we will say so and point you at the Business Profile work instead.
The questions to ask any AI SEO supplier.
Last reviewed: August 2026
Including the ones that make this harder to sell. If a supplier answers them differently, ask for their evidence.
Three acronyms, kept apart.
Our marketing dictionary keeps these three apart, which most articles do not bother to do.
What this sits on top of
This is a small, deliberate piece of work, and it leans on things you probably need anyway.
The foundation this stands on
Assistants mostly draw on sources the wider web already treats as reliable. If your ordinary search presence is thin, there is nothing for an answer to be built from. Start here.
Read moreThe profile these systems read first
Your Google Business Profile is one of the most structured, most trusted descriptions of your business anywhere. When it disagrees with your website, the assistant has to choose which one to believe.
Read moreSpotting the traffic you cannot attribute
Referrals from assistants are small, oddly labelled and easy to miss. Set up properly, tracking shows the branded searches that follow a mention, which is where most of the effect actually lands.
Read moreOne specialist, reading the answers himself.
Nicklas Dyrmose leads SEO at Siite and runs these checks personally. He writes the questions, reads what the assistants send back, and tells you plainly in the months when nothing moved.
