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Search Changed. Most Websites Did Not.
For twenty years the job was to rank: appear in the list of ten links and win the click. That job still exists. But a growing share of buyers now skip the list entirely. They ask an assistant "which clinic in Achrafieh does laser hair removal and takes evening appointments?" and the assistant names two or three. Google now puts its own AI answer above the ten links. Perplexity and ChatGPT never show the list at all.
That answer is assembled from the websites the AI was allowed to read and could understand without guessing. A site can hold the top Google position and still be absent from every AI answer, and nothing in Search Console or a rankings tool will show it. This is the gap answer engine optimization (AEO) closes, and it is where LB Clouds works.
What We Do
Make sure the AI engines are let in
The first finding on most audits is the simplest: the AI crawlers are blocked. Hosting providers and CDNs now block GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended and others by default, often by injecting rules into robots.txt at the edge, so the block never appears in the site's own files. We check every AI bot that matters, trace where each block comes from, and open the door, or close it deliberately where you choose.
State the facts so a machine can quote them
Prices, opening hours, services, locations and the questions buyers ask, written in structured data (schema.org) and in plain text on the page, not in a banner image. We write your llms.txt, fix the structured-data gaps, and restructure the pages that should answer your twenty most valuable buyer questions.
Technical SEO, still the foundation
Every page crawled: status codes, canonicals, noindex, titles, descriptions, headings, Core Web Vitals, sitemap hygiene, mobile layout. AI engines index what Google indexes, so a broken crawl path loses you both. Monitoring runs on SEODECK, our own daily audit engine.
Measure what matters, in your own accounts
Google Analytics 4 with conversion events that match your business, Google Tag Manager, Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools connected, and one weekly dashboard the owner reads. We also test the twenty buyer questions every month across ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews and record whether you were cited, so AI visibility becomes a number with a date.
Automate the marketing chores
Lead capture to your CRM, a ranking or indexing alert to the right person, a weekly report to the owner, a review request after every job. Built on Make, Zapier or Gumloop in your own account, documented and handed over, or in custom code when the platform cannot do it. We run our own automation products every day, so nothing is left as a demo.
A Finding From Our Own Site
In August 2026 we audited lbclouds.com with our own tooling. The repository's robots.txt said Allow: /. Our structured data was strong. By every standard SEO measure the site was open.
The crawler check told a different story: the CDN was injecting a managed block above our own rules at the edge, disallowing GPTBot, ClaudeBot, CCBot, Google-Extended and five other AI crawlers, and adding a Content-Signal: ai-train=no header. Normal Google search was unaffected, so rankings never moved. But Google-Extended being blocked removes a site from Google AI Overviews and Gemini, and the others meant no model would ever build durable knowledge of the company.
Nothing in the repository could fix it; the switch lived in the CDN dashboard. A standard crawl would have passed the site. That is the kind of finding the AI Visibility Audit exists to catch.
How an Engagement Runs
- Free check, today. Run the live check above, or send us your website and we ask the AI engines five questions a customer would ask in your category and show you whether you appear. No cost, no call required.
- AI Visibility Audit, 5 working days. Full crawl, AI-crawler trace, structured-data review, twenty-question citation test, prioritised fix list with the exact change for each item. Yours to hand to any developer, or to us.
- Fix and measure, weeks 2 to 4. We open the crawler doors, publish llms.txt and structured data, restructure the first pages, and put GA4, GTM and Search Console in place.
- Retainer, monthly. SEODECK watches every page every day, we re-test the AI engines each month, restructure one more page, and alert you the same day anything breaks.
Pricing
Prices in USD. Payment by card, bank transfer or OMT. Multi-site and agency pricing on request.
Why LB Clouds
- We run what we sell: SEODECK, DMARCDECK, POSTDECK and AIWAP are our own products, monitored by our own engines. The AI-crawler check above is the same code that audits lbclouds.com every day.
- We build the automation, not just rent it: Make and Zapier when they fit, Node.js or Python when they do not. Every workflow is documented and handed over in your account.
- Built and operated in Lebanon: support in Arabic, English and French, priced for regional businesses, pages optimised for the questions buyers in Beirut, Dubai and Riyadh actually ask.
- Your data stays yours: GA4, GTM and Search Console live in your Google account with access you can revoke. No tool subscriptions in our name that stop working when the engagement ends.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is AEO and how is it different from SEO?
SEO gets a page ranked in a list of ten links. AEO gets a business named in the single answer ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews or Gemini give. They overlap, since AI engines read the pages Google indexes, but AEO adds its own requirements: the AI crawlers must be allowed in, the facts must be stated plainly in structured data and text, and the pages must answer the questions buyers actually ask. A site can rank first on Google and be absent from every AI answer.
Why would an AI engine not cite my website?
Usually because it is not allowed to read it. CDNs and hosts now block GPTBot, ClaudeBot and Google-Extended by default, often at the edge where the site owner never sees it. Google-Extended being blocked removes you from AI Overviews and Gemini while ordinary search is unaffected, so the loss never shows in a rankings report. After access, the common causes are missing structured data, prices and hours stated only in images, and pages that do not answer real buyer questions.
What exactly do I get for the $349 audit?
A full crawl of every page, Core Web Vitals, structured-data gaps, a trace of which AI crawlers are blocked and where, an llms.txt written for your site, a test of twenty buyer questions across ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews recording whether you are cited, and a prioritised fix list with the exact change for each item. Delivered in five working days. Credited against the retainer if you start it within 30 days.
Do you set up GA4, Tag Manager and Search Console?
Yes, in your own Google account with access you can revoke. Conversion events that match your business, GTM, Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools connected, and one weekly dashboard the owner reads. Part of the retainer, or a one-off Automation Build.
Which automation platforms do you use?
Make, Zapier and Gumloop for workflows you should own and edit yourself; custom Node.js or Python when a platform cannot do the job or its subscription costs more than the code. Every build is documented and handed over.
Do I need SEODECK to buy the audit?
No. The audit is standalone and the fix list works with any developer. SEODECK is included in the retainer because daily monitoring is how the fixes stay fixed; you can also start a free SEODECK trial on its own.
Need the website itself rebuilt? See our website design and development packages, with technical SEO and structured data included from the start. Want your website to answer customers as well as be found? AIWAP adds an AI chat agent in one line of code.
Find out whether the AI engines can see you. Run the free check above, or send us your website and we will put five customer questions to ChatGPT and Perplexity and show you who gets named.
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