What is generative engine optimisation? UK guide

What should you change before buying another service?

Check whether your website answers a customer's buying questions correctly. Start with what you sell, where you work, what happens next and how someone can contact you. A clear answer that a person can use is a better starting point than a new label on an agency proposal.

Imagine a customer asking whether you repair wooden windows or only replace them. A page that says you offer quality solutions leaves the question unanswered. Explain the repair work you accept, what you need to assess a job, and when replacement may be worth discussing. Add an enquiry route beside that answer.

Use a real question from your own enquiries. Read the answer aloud, then ask someone unfamiliar with your business what they would do next. If they cannot tell, revise the answer before adding more technical work.

How does this differ from ordinary search optimisation?

The emphasis is on making answers easy to understand and verify. It does not remove the need for a website that search engines can access. Treat it as part of your existing search work, with a clear business purpose for each change.

Google's guidance for AI features in Search explains the eligibility requirements and says inclusion is not guaranteed. Be cautious about anyone selling a special file or schema as a guaranteed way into an answer.

A useful distinction is between fixing access and improving an answer. A blocked page needs a technical repair. A readable page with vague copy needs a clearer explanation. Publishing extra versions of the same answer does not resolve either problem.

Our guide to answer engine optimisation explains the related terminology. Choose the work by the problem you have found, rather than paying separately for every name.

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Which business facts should you check first?

Check your business name, contact details, services, service area and current offer. Compare the visible page with its structured data and your other public listings. Correct disagreements at the source, and keep a note of who owns each update.

• Does each service page describe work you actually accept?
• Does your phone number match the number shown elsewhere?
• Are prices and conditions current wherever they appear?
• Can a visitor find an enquiry form or call you from a phone?
• Does the page explain any limits that affect the buyer's decision?

Keep an evidence sheet with the fact, its source and the date you checked it. Where you do not have a confirmed detail, leave it out. Do not invent an office, a qualification or a customer story to make a page appear more complete.

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What would a useful answer look like?

A useful answer gives the decision first, then the conditions and next step. Make it specific enough that a customer can decide whether to enquire. Separate your actual service from a hypothetical example, and avoid claims you cannot support.

Here is an illustrative structure for a repair page, not a claim about a real firm. Start by saying whether the business assesses repairs. Explain which photos help an assessment. Say who checks the request and how the customer can send it. Put any limits beside the offer.

Follow with the questions customers ask during a call. Those might concern access, parking, the condition of the frame or whether the property needs specialist advice. Use your actual working process rather than copying another firm's promises.

Google's people-first content guidance is a useful check on whether a page serves its reader. An explanation based on your work gives the visitor something more useful than a rewritten definition.

How should you measure whether the work helps?

Measure enquiries and their relevance alongside search visits. Keep a dated record of changes, then compare like periods with similar trading conditions. Treat occasional AI answer checks as observations, because different wording and different sessions can return different answers.

Record the question you checked, the date, the answer and the cited page when there is one. Do not describe an unseen answer as a citation. Ask new customers how they found you, while accepting that some will not remember.

Before buying a package, ask what the supplier will change, what evidence you receive and who keeps the work. A report containing screenshots is useful only when it leads to a sensible decision. It is not evidence that enquiries increased.

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