From 35 to 1,100 Leads: What Happens When AI Search Drives Growth Instead of Traffic

New Delhi [India], July 28: Type a comparison question into ChatGPT or Google’s AI Overviews today, and you’ll often get a full answer with a brand name attached before you ever open a browser tab. For the person asking, that’s convenient. For the brand that didn’t get named, that’s a customer lost without ever knowing [...]

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From 35 to 1,100 Leads: What Happens When AI Search Drives Growth Instead of Traffic

New Delhi [India], July 28: Type a comparison question into ChatGPT or Google’s AI Overviews today, and you’ll often get a full answer with a brand name attached before you ever open a browser tab. For the person asking, that’s convenient. For the brand that didn’t get named, that’s a customer lost without ever knowing there was a chance to win them.

This is the shift underway in B2B marketing right now. Search hasn’t gone away, but a growing share of it resolves inside an AI answer instead of a results page. Ranking first on Google means less than it used to if the AI answering the question cites someone else.

Traditional SEO was built around keywords, backlinks, and ranking signals, all aimed at a page of ten blue links. Generative Engine Optimization, or GEO (some call it AEO, Answer Engine Optimization), is aimed at something different: whether a language model trusts a brand enough to name it when generating an answer. Getting there takes a few things a keyword strategy alone doesn’t cover:

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