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SEO, GEO and AEO agency.
Become the answer AI cites.

AIRank is an SEO, GEO and AEO agency, led by its founder. We help you get visible in Google and cited in ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. You no longer stay invisible when a customer asks AI instead of Google.

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12+ years in SEO·enterprise scale·GEO·AEO·SEO

GEO = get cited in ChatGPT & Perplexity · AEO = your answer, extracted directly

You · the client

Become the new client

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The stakes

The blind spot of answer engines

Search has moved from blue links to generated answers. If AI can't see you, you don't exist in the client's decision — no matter how good you are.

01 · external

Clicks are leaking to AI

More and more searches end in the AI answer, with no click to the site. Organic traffic earned over years erodes month by month — and no one recovers it by accident.

02 · internal

The feeling that you're falling behind

You see competitors cited in ChatGPT and Perplexity, and not you. And you have to explain that to leadership.

03 · on principle

Authority lost for nothing

It's wrong to lose years of earned authority just because the format people ask questions in has changed.

The good news: this isn't fixed by starting over — it's fixed with a system. Here's what you gain.

What you gain

Visible, cited, and chosen — on both searches

GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) is the process of becoming the cited source in AI answers — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews. AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) structures content for direct passage-level extraction. Together, they cover both channels through which AI engines find you: retrieval (crawled content) and parametric (what models internalized from training).

The key benefit→

Cited in AI answers

You become the source ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI Overviews cite — with attribution and traffic back. Where the decision gets made, you show up, not the competition.

You recover organic

You stop the traffic leak and rebuild the positions that matter commercially.

Progress that doesn't stall

An automated system with AI agents works on your account continuously — results keep compounding, not stopping after a one-off report.

Measured visibility

End-to-end tracking of citations and share of voice — see exactly where you show up and where you don't.

Free check

Are you citable by AI? Find out in 5–10 minutes.

Leave the page URL and your email, and I'll run a free SEO and GEO/AEO audit of the page — see the results right on the page (plus the full report by email): the issues keeping you out of AI answers, by category (E-E-A-T, GEO-AEO, technical SEO). Free diagnosis, no account.

Free diagnosis · no account · no spam.

Your guide

I lived the problem at scale. Then I solved it.

I understand the pressure — I spent years in technical and on-page SEO at Romania's largest marketplace, where an indexing mistake costs you immediately. I fixed crawl and indexing problems at a scale of 10M+ URLs and built technical foundations for organic traffic at the enterprise level. Beyond eMAG, I've run 100+ SEO campaigns and recovered 20+ sites from penalties throughout my career.

Now I bring the same technical discipline into the era of AI engines — combined with automation through AI agents. As an SEO agency, AIRank is founder-led: you work directly with the person doing the work, not with an account manager.

Your guide
12+
years in SEO
10M+
URLs managed
100+
SEO campaigns
20+
sites de-penalized
GEO
+ AEO native
AI
agents & automation
Recommendations

Don't just take my word for it

People I worked with directly, as managers or peers — real names, linked to their LinkedIn profile.

I highly recommend Dragoș Drăgoi for any high-stakes Head of SEO role. Having collaborated closely, I've seen firsthand his rare ability to bridge deep Technical SEO with the future of search: GEO (Generative Engine Optimization). Dragoș is one of the few experts who truly understands and executes strategies for AI engine indexing, ensuring brand dominance across LLMs and SGE. His data-driven approach is backed by an elite command of tools like Ahrefs, SEMrush, GA4, Looker Studio, Tableau, and Qlik, transforming complex analytics into clear business growth. Beyond his technical mastery, Dragoș is a natural leader and a meticulous project manager. He is a proactive autodidact who doesn't just adapt to industry shifts—he anticipates them. For any international organization looking for a visionary to lead their organic growth and mentor a world-class team, Dragoș is the ideal choice.
Marian Ceaușescu
Platform Product Manager, eMAG
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Dragos este unul dintre cei mai buni specialisti SEO cu care am lucrat.
Sorin Drăghici
Business Builder
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Dragos is a skilled professional with a great ability to adapt and face new challenges!
Cătălin Rusu
iGaming CMO / Growth Director
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Dragos is a very professional and skilful guy, always eager to learn new things and improve his SEO and online marketing expertise. Working with him was a real pleasure and I highly recommend him for future projects.
Gabriel Marin
EU Performance Marketing Manager, OLX Group
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The plan

Three steps. No surprises.

1

Discovery call

30 minutes. You tell me where you are, I tell you what I see and whether I can help — directly.

2

AEO/GEO roadmap

You get a clear plan by priority: what needs fixing first (your team implements the technical recommendations) and what impact it has.

3

Cited & growing

We deliver the content, run the off-page campaigns and measure — you show up in AI answers and recover organic.

SEO agency services

SEO, GEO and AEO: technical foundation + AI visibility, end to end

The foundation→

Technical SEO

Crawling, indexing, rendering, Schema.org, Core Web Vitals. The plumbing without which nothing else matters.

The new layer→

AEO · Answer Engine Optimization

Content structured at the passage level — retrievable and citable by AI engines.

On-page SEO →

Intent, heading structure, title/meta, internal linking — the right page for the right question.

Off-page SEO →

Authority and entity: clean link building, mentions, trust signals.

GEO →

Generative Engine Optimization — selected in AI-generated answers.

Content + CRO →

Content that convinces people and algorithms — optimized for conversion.

Services combine into retainers and projects, each with its own detailed page. See all SEO, GEO and AEO services or the retainer packages. Just want Schema Markup? See the dedicated page.

The SEO agency, explained

SEO agency: what it means, what it does and how GEO and AEO fit in

An SEO agency (also called an SEO company, a digital SEO agency or an SEO marketing agency) handles everything that decides whether a site shows up in Google: the technical foundation (crawl, indexing, speed), content and page structure (on-page) and authority from outside the site (off-page). The same work now extends to AI engines: GEO makes you a cited source in ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews, while AEO structures pages so an answer can be extracted directly. AIRank is an SEO optimization agency led by its founder, working on both classic SEO and visibility in AI (GEO and AEO).

The difference between SEO, GEO and AEO
Aspect SEOGEOAEO
What it optimizes A page's position in Google resultsBrand citation in AI-generated answersDirect extraction of an answer from a page
Where you appear The list of links in GoogleChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI OverviewsDirect answers, featured snippets, AI Mode
What we work on Technical, on-page, off-pageEntity, mentions and authority on cited sourcesStandalone passages, definitions, FAQ, structured data
How we measure Rankings, clicks, indexingCitations and share of voice in AIPassages extracted and answers earned

Details in the SEO, GEO and AEO comparison and in the glossary of terms.

Choosing an agency

How to choose an SEO agency

You choose an SEO agency by six verifiable criteria: who does the work, what it promises, what it delivers, what access you get to your data, how open its pricing is and what proof it has. There is no absolute "best SEO agency", so check these criteria at any agency, including ours.

See who does the work

Ask who actually works on your account and with what experience. At AIRank, the founder answers, directly.

No ranking promises

No agency controls the algorithms. The difference is between an honest report and a guarantee. I guarantee deliverables, not rankings.

Written process and deliverables

What you get each month, in what format, with what deadlines. Ask for a sample report before you sign.

Access to your data

Google Search Console, Analytics and the site stay yours; the agency works inside them, not in your place.

Public pricing, no lock-in

See the pricing before the call. I do not require a contract.

Verifiable proof

Anonymized cases and public experiments, not just logos.

Red flags

  • A guarantee of rankings, of "position 1" or of citations in ChatGPT.
  • A "special relationship" with Google or with any AI engine.
  • Reporting only on vanity metrics, with no link to leads or sales.
  • A refusal to explain what they change on the site or to give you access to what was delivered.
  • A "GEO" offer that is just classic SEO renamed, without saying what is added.

Not sure where to start? Run a Free SEO GEO Audit before any commercial conversation.

SEO agency based in Bucharest

From Bucharest, online for all of Romania

AIRank is an SEO agency from Romania, with its address in Bucharest. If you are looking for an SEO agency in Bucharest, Cluj, Timișoara, Brașov, Sibiu or Alba Iulia, you work with us online, as an online SEO agency for clients across the country. We work mostly with online stores and with companies that have organic traffic to defend. The audit, content, off-page campaigns and reporting are done remotely, so you do not need an agency in your city, you need one that shows its work. Meetings are held online, and the Bucharest address does not receive the public (no public office hours).

Why AIRank

The story, in short

You've seen the reason (AI answers in your place) and the plan (technical foundation + citable content + authority) above. One question remains: why AIRank? Because it isn't a strategy on paper — it's tested on our own properties, by someone who has solved the same crawl and indexing problems at enterprise scale.

Concretely: we start from the technical foundation — because a site AI bots can't read is invisible regardless of content — and build on top of it a system that makes you citable: passage-level structured content, schema connected as an entity graph, entity authority, and tracking that shows you exactly where you show up.

The result isn't an audit you file away. It's an engine that keeps working, run by someone who does full-stack SEO (technical, on-page, off-page), with technical and on-page at enterprise scale, and who tests everything in his own Lab before recommending anything to you.

Frequently asked questions

What everyone asks

SEO optimizes you for links in Google — your position in the list, the click on the result. GEO/AEO optimizes you to be selected and cited directly inside the answers AI engines generate, where there's no list of links to scan — just the answer, with or without you in it. They're complementary, not competing: technical SEO remains the foundation (crawl, indexing, schema), while GEO/AEO is the new layer most agencies still don't cover.

It depends on the channel — these are two different mechanisms, not one. On the retrieval channel (citations based on content crawled right now, in-session), changes can show up in weeks, sometimes faster. On the parametric channel (what the model already "knows" about you from training, without searching live), the effect comes much slower, only at the next retraining cycle — which we don't control. We work on both simultaneously, but the fast wins always come from retrieval.

No — and be wary of any agency that does, because it's promising something it technically can't control. AI answer systems are probabilistic and personalized: the same prompt can return different answers for different users, in different sessions, even on the same day. What we do is systematically increase your odds of being found and cited, across multiple AI platforms at once, with transparent tracking that shows exactly where you show up and where you don't — not a promise, a report.

We run the same set of queries relevant to your brand in fresh sessions, across 5 AI surfaces (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Mode) — not a single isolated search, but a repeated protocol, since AI answers vary from one session to the next. We track both linked citations and link-free mentions, where the brand appears in the text but doesn't generate a direct click. What matters is the pattern across multiple runs, not a single test result — which is why we measure periodically, not once.

An SEO agency optimizes a site so it ranks higher in Google and attracts relevant traffic. The work has three parts: technical SEO (crawl, indexing, speed, structured data), on-page SEO (content, headings, structure, internal links) and off-page SEO (authority, mentions, links). At AIRank, GEO and AEO are added, meaning visibility in the answers of ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. At AIRank we write the content (AI is a tool we use, always checked by a human — see how, in Romanian) and run the off-page campaigns ourselves, while for technical and on-page work you get prioritized recommendations that your developer implements; then we check the result. What we do in practice is on the services page.

Check four things at any agency. Who does the work: the founder or an anonymous junior. What it promises: an honest agency does not guarantee rankings. What it delivers: a process and a written report, with deadlines. How open it is: public pricing, access to your data, no lock-in. The free SEO GEO audit shows you the quality of the work before any commitment, and the retainer packages are on the pricing page.

It depends on how your customers search. For a small site, the rational order is this: first the fundamentals (an indexable site, consistent contact details and entity, reviews, content that clearly answers your customers' questions), then checking whether AI bots can access your site, and only then, if there is something to optimize, a retainer. The free SEO GEO audit tells you in a few minutes where to start.

You can, if you cover four things: technical SEO (bot access, rendering, indexing), passage-level structured content, entity signals on the web and measurement across a set of queries. One person on your team rarely covers all of them. A hybrid model is common: an external specialist for strategy, technical recommendations and off-page campaigns, while the day-to-day content work stays with your team.

Both, depending on the type of work. Retrieval and content work — answer-shaped articles, on-page optimization, tracking — fits well as a monthly retainer, because it's ongoing by nature: AI engines recrawl, competitors publish, and visibility only holds with constant work. Entity foundation and digital PR work fits better as a project with a clear scope and defined end. We define exactly what you need at the discovery call — no lock-in, no minimum commitment.

GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) is the discipline through which a brand becomes the source cited in the answers of generative AI engines — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews. Unlike classic SEO (where you target position in a list of links), GEO targets selection into the generated answer itself, which appears above any link and has no visible alternative for the user.

AIRank is the SEO, GEO and AEO agency from Bucharest that makes brands visible and cited in the answers of AI engines — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews — without losing organic traffic. It is led by its founder, Dragoș Mihai Drăgoi, with 12+ years in SEO and enterprise-scale technical SEO, and combines technical SEO discipline with AI-agent automation and a public lab of experiments. You work directly with the person doing the work, not with an account manager.

The most common causes, in the order we check them: (1) content isn't structured for RAG extraction — it's narrative, hard to break into independent passages; (2) AI bots are accidentally blocked in robots.txt, a frequent technical mistake; (3) information about the brand is unclear or inconsistent — schema markup helps with clarity, but there is no evidence it raises citations on its own; (4) the brand lacks enough authority on external sources models trust (digital PR, Wikipedia, specialty directories). All four are diagnosable in an audit and fixable.

llms.txt is a community proposal (not an official standard), a file similar to robots.txt that describes a site for large language models: what content exists, which pages matter, who the author is. Google says it is not needed to appear in Search, and public evidence that it influences citations is missing: according to a 2026 Ahrefs study, 97% of valid llms.txt files received no requests at all. We keep ours because it is cheap, not as a citation factor. Live at airank.ro/llms.txt.

We measure across three complementary dimensions, not one: AI share of voice (out of all queries relevant to your niche, how many return your brand vs. competitors), linked citations (direct, measurable traffic from chatgpt.com, perplexity.ai, bing.com/chat, visible right in analytics), and link-free mentions (the brand appears in the answer, influences the decision, but generates no click — indirect impact, visible in branded search). We report on all three, monthly, with trend over time.

Let's put you in the answer.

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