Google writes the answer at the top of the page now. If it names a competitor and not you, your position stopped earning. We get Ugandan businesses named inside those answers, and we can show you one you can check from your phone.
Figures from Ahrefs and SE Ranking studies, plus one Ugandan client. Sources named on the page.
AI visibility means your business gets named inside the answer Google or ChatGPT writes, not just listed below it. In Uganda this is still open ground. Google now answers a large share of searches at the top of the page, and a reader who gets what they needed there never scrolls to your link. Getting quoted comes from the same work as ranking. Pages that answer one question completely near the top. Clear entity signals so a machine knows who you are. Mentions on sites the models already trust. We charge $800 a month for this, roughly UGX 2,960,000, and we will tell you when you do not need it yet.
Google reports AI Overviews reaching more than 200 countries and appearing on over half of all queries. Uganda is inside that. Search for a service here and you will often get a written answer before a single blue link.
That answer names two or three businesses. If yours is not one of them, the ranking you paid for is doing less work every month, and your analytics will show impressions holding while clicks slide.
Most agencies in Kampala have not adjusted. That gap is the opportunity, and it will not stay open.
The most useful thing we can tell you about GEO is what it is not.
Google’s guidance on AI features states that optimising for generative AI search is still SEO, and that AEO and GEO are new labels for work that already existed. Google also rejects several popular tactics outright, including llms.txt files, artificial content chunking and mention farming.
So we will not sell you a secret. We sell the same discipline aimed at a surface most Ugandan businesses are ignoring, plus the measurement to prove it moved. An agency telling you GEO is a separate product with its own magic is either behind or hoping you are.
Each one is measurable, and each one has published evidence behind it.
Ahrefs studied 75,000 brands and found brand mentions correlate about three times more strongly with AI visibility than backlinks. Domain rating barely moves it. For a Ugandan business that means directories, a complete Google Business Profile, YouTube and real press do more than a link package.
Around 44% of AI citations come from the first 30% of a page, and lifted passages tend to run between 134 and 167 words. An introduction that warms up for four paragraphs before answering will not get quoted.
If your content only appears after a script runs, the crawler sees an empty page. Plenty of Ugandan sites built on heavy page builders fail here without anyone noticing. We check this before anything else, because nothing else matters if the machine cannot read the page.
Content under three months old is roughly three times more likely to be cited. Pages left untouched for six months or more start losing citation eligibility altogether. A page you publish once and forget is not an asset here.
Your business name, city, services and people need to be written out in text a machine can parse, and repeated consistently across your site, your Google Business Profile and the directories. “We” teaches a model nothing.
Solar, electric fencingYou do not have to take our word for this. It takes ten seconds to check.
Search Top solar power companies Uganda on your phone. Easy Power Company Limited is named first inside Google’s AI Overview, above Village Energy and ENGIE Energy Access. No advert sits behind it, which is why the position holds after a budget stops.
Search Console recorded more than 1,200 clicks in 28 days for the same site, up from roughly 500.
One honest note. Twenty-eight days was exceptional and we say so on every call. Plan for 6 to 10 weeks before anything moves, and 3 to 6 months in competitive categories.
One tactic does not cover all of them, which is why we report on each separately.
| Surface | Leans on | What earns a citation |
|---|---|---|
| Google AI Overviews | Pages that already rank well | Classic SEO, plus a quotable passage near the top |
| Google AI Mode | A broader pool, weakly tied to position | Freshness and entity authority, not just rank |
| ChatGPT | Wikipedia around 48%, Reddit around 11% | Entity presence on authoritative sources |
| Perplexity | Reddit around 47% | Genuine community discussion, not planted posts |
Google runs two engines that reach the same conclusion about 86% of the time but cite the same pages only around 14% of the time. Treating them as one surface is how agencies miss half the opportunity.
Tell us the three searches a customer would type before buying from you. That is all we need to begin.
Takes two minutesWe run those queries through Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT and Perplexity, and send you the answers with the businesses they name. You see the gap rather than hearing about it.
Free · within 2 business daysCrawler access, server-side rendering, entity signals, then the pages themselves rewritten so the answer sits at the top in a length that gets lifted whole.
First 30 daysOne page showing which surfaces name you, which name a competitor, and what changed since last month. Rankings and Search Console clicks sit alongside it.
OngoingWe would rather turn you away than take money for work that will not land.
This suits you if you already rank for something and have watched clicks fall while positions held. Solar and energy, hospitality, professional services, healthcare and B2B suppliers around Kampala.
It is the wrong purchase if your site is slow, thin, or invisible in ordinary search. Fix that first. We will tell you if that is where you are and quote you for ordinary SEO instead.
Published, in both currencies, so you can decide before you call.
See exactly where you stand across four AI surfaces before committing to anything.
For businesses in competitive categories that need to own the answer, not just the ranking.
The groundwork. Start here if your site does not yet rank in ordinary search.
Shilling figures use 3,700 to the dollar, checked 25 August 2026. We quote in dollars because Ahrefs, Screaming Frog and Surfer bill us in dollars, so a shilling price would move every time the rate does. You can pay in shillings at the day’s rate.
The questions that come up on almost every call, answered here before you have to ask them.
Answered by Francis Baguma, Senior SEO Strategist · Elite Webmasters, Kampala·Last reviewed GEO stands for generative engine optimisation, which means getting your business named inside answers written by AI. Google states that this is still SEO rather than a separate discipline, and that AEO and GEO are new labels for existing work. The difference is which surface you are optimising for and how you measure it.
Yes. Search for top solar power companies Uganda and you will see one, with a Ugandan business named first. Google reports AI Overviews reaching over 200 countries and appearing on more than half of queries.
It helps a machine parse your page, so it is worth having. It does not buy a citation. Google states plainly that structured data is not required for AI Overview inclusion, and anyone selling schema as the trick is overselling it.
No. Google has said it does not use llms.txt, and independent studies across hundreds of thousands of domains found no citation benefit. We will add one if you want it, but we will not charge you for it as a strategy.
We run your target queries through Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, ChatGPT and Perplexity each month and record whether your business is named and who is named instead. Rankings and clicks from Search Console sit alongside that.
Our AI Visibility and Authority retainer is $800 a month, roughly UGX 2,960,000. A one-off audit that includes AI visibility is $150. Most Kampala agencies do not offer this yet, so there is little local market rate to compare against.
No, and nobody can. No one controls what a model writes. We control the inputs that make citation likely, and we report honestly each month on whether it happened.
Send us the three searches that matter most to your business. We will run them through Google, ChatGPT and Perplexity and send you exactly what comes back, with no charge and no pitch attached.
If an agency has already sold you GEO as a secret formula, bring us their proposal. We will tell you honestly which parts of it Google actually supports.