Looking for an AI SEO agency? Start with what gets cited.
Most AI SEO agencies sell audits, dashboards and retainers. What actually earns rankings and AI citations is content on your site. Nina is the done-for-you way to get it, without the agency contract.
An AI SEO agency helps a business rank in search and appear in AI-generated answers from tools like ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews, often using AI to speed up the work. Nina is not a retainer agency. It is a done-for-you content service that plans, writes, edits and publishes search content built for both, from $60 a blog.
What “AI SEO services” usually means
The phrase covers three different things. Know which one you are buying.
SEO for AI search
Optimizing your site to be cited in AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT and Perplexity. Also called AEO or GEO. This is where buyer attention is moving.
SEO done with AI
Using AI tools to research keywords, draft content and audit sites faster. It lowers cost, but unreviewed output can put wrong claims on your site.
Both at once
AI speeds up production while people handle strategy and editing, and the content is structured to rank and be cited. This is the model Nina runs.
7 questions to ask any AI SEO agency
Use these on every sales call, including ours.
- ✓What will be published on my site each month? If the answer is a report rather than pages, you are paying for measurement, not results.
- ✓Who reviews AI-written content before it goes live? A named human editor should check facts, voice and links on every piece.
- ✓How do you measure AI citations? Google Search Console reports AI Overview and AI Mode citations by page. Be cautious of proprietary visibility scores you cannot audit.
- ✓What can you not prove? An honest vendor will tell you ChatGPT and Perplexity do not publish per-page citation data.
- ✓How long is the contract? Many agencies require six months or more up front. Ask what happens if the first posts miss the mark.
- ✓How long until the first deliverable? Weeks of onboarding before a single draft is common. Ask for the date of post one.
- ✓Who publishes, and to which CMS? If your team has to format and upload everything, the work is not done-for-you.
Proof you can check in your own Search Console
These numbers come from Google’s report, not a third-party score.
Measured in each client’s own Google Search Console, Generative AI features report, 18 May to 13 September 2026. Page-level figures for Nina-written blog paths across five client sites where Nina wrote every post on the path. Client names anonymized. An impression counts a page shown as a source in AI Overviews or AI Mode.
AI SEO agency, DIY, or Nina
Same goal, very different ways to get there.
Hire an AI SEO agency
- •Long contracts signed before you see a post
- •Audits and dashboards in place of published pages
- •Weeks of onboarding, then weeks to a first draft
- •You still brief them on your business
Do it yourself with AI
- •A tool for keywords, another for writing, another for schema
- •No editor, so confident mistakes go live
- •You are the project manager
- •Manual formatting and publishing
The engine and the people
- ✓A dedicated strategist owns the topic and question plan before a word is written
- ✓AI-optimized writing does the drafting, so the pace never drops
- ✓A human editor reviews every post: accuracy, voice, structure, links, images
- ✓Published straight to your CMS, with citations reported in your own Search Console
What we can prove, and what we cannot
This category is full of scores nobody can audit. Here is the honest line, so you can hold every vendor you talk to against it.
What Nina can show you
- ✓Which of your pages Google’s AI answers used as a source, by URL, in your own Search Console
- ✓How your blog performs against the rest of your site on that same report
- ✓Rankings, impressions, clicks and keyword movement in your monthly report
- ✓A baseline captured before your first post ships
What nobody can prove yet
- •Per-page citation counts inside ChatGPT, Perplexity or Claude, which do not publish that report
- •A percentage lift in AI visibility with no baseline to compare against
- •Any third-party AI visibility score built on a small sample of prompts
- •That citations alone close deals. They put you in the answer. Your offer does the rest
Frequently asked questions
An AI SEO agency helps businesses rank in traditional search and appear in AI-generated answers, such as Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity. Services often include audits, content strategy, content production, technical fixes and reporting, and many agencies use AI tools to do the work faster.
Not in the traditional sense. Nina does not sell audit retainers or visibility dashboards. It is a done-for-you content service: a strategist plans topics, AI-optimized writing drafts posts, a human editor reviews each one, and Nina publishes them to your site.
Agency retainers for AI SEO commonly run $2,000 to $6,000 a month. AI writing tools cost less but require your time. Nina starts from $60 a blog with month-to-month, 6-month and 12-month options.
Google’s guidance on generative AI content focuses on whether content is helpful, not how it was produced. Unreviewed AI content often fails that bar. Nina pairs AI drafting with strategist planning and human editing so every post is accurate and useful before it is published.
They overlap heavily. AI SEO is the broad label. AEO usually means getting cited in Google’s AI answers, and GEO usually means getting mentioned by generative assistants like ChatGPT. Our AEO vs GEO vs SEO guide breaks down the differences.
Yes. Agencies can offer Nina content to their clients through Nina’s partner program. See the partners page for details.
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