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AI SEO agency in Australia

Be the business AI names, not a listing in someone else's answer.

AI now answers the questions your customers used to Google, and it is naming directories, platforms and Reddit, not you. We are an Australian AI SEO and generative engine optimisation agency that makes your business the source AI engines cite.

“Best plumber in Sydney?” SOURCES IT CITED Reddit hipages a gov register Your business now the named answer
50everyday questions we tested across 4 AI engines
~5 hrsfrom publish to a live Google AI citation, in one case
Unclaimedthe AI answer in most Australian categories, for now
700monthly Australian searches across these categories

The problem

AI is already answering for your business

We ran the 50 questions Australians ask right before they hire through ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google's AI Mode, 200 answers, and logged who got named. The result should worry any business owner: the single most-cited source was Reddit, most engines refused to name one business at all, and where they did the lists were scattered and inconsistent. If you have not deliberately made yourself cite-able, you are almost certainly invisible in the answer your next customer sees.

This is the shift an AI SEO agency exists to fix. Ranking a page is no longer the finish line. The machine now composes one answer from the sources it trusts, and being in that answer is the new visibility. The full data, by industry, is in our study of the Australian AI answer gap.

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In half the questions we tested, AI named no individual business, pointing to government registers and directories instead.

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Where it did name businesses, the lists barely overlapped between engines, so being named on one is no guarantee on the next.

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Google's AI Mode does name a shortlist, but only businesses already sitting in the directories, reviews and lists it reads.

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No business owns these answers yet. That is the opening, and it is closing as competitors wake up.

What we do

What an AI SEO agency actually does

AI SEO, also called generative engine optimisation or GEO, is the work of making your business the answer that AI engines and AI-era search return. It sits alongside classic SEO, which still matters, but it targets a different prize: the composed AI answer and the sources behind it. As your Australian AI SEO agency, we deliver four things.

Get you cited

We earn your place in the sources the engines already trust for your category, the directories, review platforms, "best of" lists and communities, so you appear where the citation currently lands.

Make your site quotable

We publish the definitive, structured answers to your customers' real questions, with the specifics most sites hide, marked up so an assistant can lift them cleanly.

Build authority and consensus

We earn the links, citations and reviews that let your page outrank a directory and get agreement across independent sources, which is what AI rewards.

Track and prove it

We measure whether the assistants name you, per engine and per question, and report the movement, so you can see it working.

The answer today

AI names:

Reddithipagesa directoryYour business, not cited

The answer we build

AI names:

✓ Your businessas a recommended provider
The whole job, in one picture: move your business from left to right.

How it works

How we make you the answer

The same sequence that put a client in a Google AI Overview within about five hours of publishing.

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AI visibility audit

We run your category through the assistants and Google's AI, show you who is named instead of you, and map the fastest gains. This is the free first step.

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Source and authority plan

We prioritise the directories, reviews, listings and citations that move your category, and the content that earns them.

3

Cite-able content

We build the structured, original answers, guides, data and video that engines quote and customers trust.

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Measure and compound

We track citations across engines and double down where you are gaining, month after month.

The heavy lifting, the tracking, the audits, the on-page work, is automated by our Snowball SEO platform, which is the point of it: it hands more of your budget back to the creative storytelling, the video, photography and writing, that actually earns the citation. The strategy in full is in our guide to generative engine optimisation and the field playbook, how to get cited by AI in Australia.

The proof

It can move fast, because the slot is empty

Using this method we published a single optimised page for a Sydney client targeting a local commercial search. Within about five hours of it going live it ranked first on Google for that search and was surfaced in Google's AI Overview, both as a recommended provider and in the Overview's source panel. That was a local, lower-competition query, so it shows speed of ranking and citation, not a promise about national head terms. But it shows the door opens, and our data shows it is still wide open across most Australian categories.

Who it is for

Who we help, and what changes

We work with Australian businesses that sell a considered service or product, the ones customers research before they buy: trades and home services, health and allied health, professional and financial services, property, hospitality, and considered retail. If your customers ask AI or Google "who is the best" or "how do I choose" in your category, this is for you. What changes is simple: you move from invisible in the answer to named in it, and the enquiries follow.

Start here

Find out if AI names your business

Get a free AI visibility audit. We will run your category through the assistants and Google's AI, show you who is getting named instead of you, and the fastest moves to become the answer.

Get your free audit

Questions

AI SEO agency questions, answered

What is AI SEO?

AI SEO, or generative engine optimisation, is the work of making your business the answer AI engines and AI-era search return, and a source they cite. It complements classic SEO rather than replacing it.

How is it different from normal SEO?

Classic SEO aims to rank a page. AI SEO aims to be named and cited inside the single composed answer that AI now shows above or instead of the links.

How long until AI names my business?

Local, lower-competition answers can move in days to weeks, as our five-hour example shows. National and high-competition categories are a compounding programme measured over months. We are honest about which is which up front.

Do you guarantee citations?

No one credible can guarantee a specific AI citation, because the engines change and no single list controls them. What we guarantee is the right work, measured honestly, so you can see the movement.

How much does an AI SEO agency cost?

It depends on your category and how competitive the answer is. The audit is free, and we scope from there. Because our platform automates the grind, more of your spend goes to the content that earns citations rather than to billable hours.

Anthony Betzis
Founder, Snowball Productions

Anthony founded Snowball Productions, a Sydney agency that turns search and audience data into compounding visibility across Google and AI answer engines. He works hands-on with Australian brands on SEO, generative engine optimisation and content.