AI Search Optimization (GEO & AEO) in India

There is no settled market rate for Generative Engine Optimization yet, which is exactly why agencies get away with quoting whatever the client seems able to pay. In practice GEO is sold either as an add-on to an SEO retainer, typically ₹10,000 to ₹30,000 on top of a ₹15,000 to ₹2,00,000 SEO fee in India, or as a standalone programme that repackages content and PR work at a premium. Both make it hard to see what is actually being done for the money.

Mediaverse Digital publishes two tiers. Foundations at ₹40,000 per month (about $750) covers the technical fixes, 4 answer-first articles, schema and entity setup, directory consistency and a monthly report on Google rankings plus AI visibility. Authority at ₹75,000 per month (about $1,400) adds 8 or more articles in clusters, digital PR and listicle outreach, original data production and a quarterly strategy deep-dive. Both carry a 3-month minimum, then run month-to-month.

The honest way to judge the price is by what is produced. An answer-first article with sourced statistics costs real editorial time. A placement in a comparison article that Perplexity cites is earned through outreach, not bought. If a quote for AI search optimization does not list article counts, placement targets and a visibility measurement method, you are being sold the label rather than the work.

Every major AI answer engine now retrieves live web results before writing, then quotes and links the sources it used. The pages it selects share a pattern. They answer the exact question near the top, in plain sentences an engine can lift without editing. They carry statistics with a named source. They belong to an entity the engine already recognises from consistent mentions elsewhere. And they are fast, crawlable and not blocked to AI user agents.

The engines also lean heavily on third parties when asked to recommend. Ask any assistant for the best agency, clinic or software in a category and the sources are usually comparison articles, directories, review platforms and best-of lists rather than the vendors' own sites. That means a brand cannot cite its way in alone. It has to appear, with consistent facts, on the pages the engines already trust, which is the digital PR half of this programme.

Google AI Overviews behave slightly differently: they draw mostly from pages that already rank in the top results for the query, then favour the ones with clear structure and schema. That is why classic SEO and GEO are run as one programme here. A page that does not rank rarely gets into an Overview; a page that ranks but rambles gets skipped for one that answers.

Month one is foundation: the technical audit, AI crawler access, schema and entity graph, and a sweep of every profile and directory where your business facts disagree with each other. The prompt panel is run for the first time so there is a baseline to measure against. From month two the rhythm is editorial and outreach. Articles are briefed from the question research, written answer-first, published with schema and internal links, and existing pages are restructured one by one.

On Authority, outreach runs alongside: pitching your brand and data into comparison articles, listicles and industry round-ups, and producing the quarterly original data piece that gives publishers and engines a reason to cite you. At month end the prompt panel is re-run across all five engines, and the report shows citation share, which pages were cited, and where the facts the engines state about you are wrong so they can be corrected at the source.

Everything in this programme runs on themediaverse.in first. The published pricing, the 40 to 60 word answer blocks at the top of every page, the FAQ schema, the founder entity, the answer-first blog posts and the AI visibility panel were all built for our own outdoor and digital business before they were offered to clients. When an engine changes how it cites, we see it in our own numbers before it reaches your report.

The team works remotely from Bangalore for clients across India and for companies in the US, UK and UAE that want a senior-led GEO programme at Indian cost structures. Every asset is created in your accounts and on your domain: Search Console, GA4, the CMS, the schema and the directory logins. If you stop after the 3-month minimum, you keep every page, every placement and every report, and the citations keep working for you.