SEO, AEO, GEO & LLM Optimization Consulting

Kern Media® is an SEO, AEO, GEO and LLM optimization consultancy that works with national companies and brands across the U.S. With over 20 years of experience, we help you get found whether buyers search on Google or ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot or Google AI Mode. Our consulting covers search engine optimization (SEO), answer engine optimization (AEO), generative engine optimization (GEO), LLM visibility and content strategy, so your website ranks in search results, gets cited in AI answers and turns that visibility into leads and revenue. Most of our clients are eCommerce brands and lead generation businesses. Set up a free consultation to see if we’re a good fit for your SEO, AEO and GEO goals.

20+

Years in SEO

500+

Websites Optimized

★★★★★

5-Star Google Reviews

10 to 20+

Years of Experience on Our Specialist Team

Get found and recommended in

GoogleChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityCopilotGoogle AI Mode

Senior-Level Strategy

Work directly with founder Dan Kern, who brings 20+ years of SEO experience, 500+ websites optimized and past leadership of SEO for a publisher with 200+ websites.

SEO, AEO and GEO Together

Rank in Google, become the answer in AI Overviews and featured snippets, and get recommended by ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and Google AI Mode, with one strategy that covers all three.

Specialist Team on Demand

U.S.-based SEO, paid search and CRO/analytics specialists, each with 10 to 20+ years of experience, brought in as your engagement needs.

Built for eCommerce & Lead Gen

Most of our clients are eCommerce brands and lead generation businesses, so we focus first on the pages that drive sales and leads.

Revenue-Focused Reporting

Every month you see the traffic, leads and revenue coming from Google and each AI tool, not just rankings.

5-Star Rated

Clients rate Kern Media 5.0 stars across 23 Google reviews, and many have worked with us for years.

LLM optimization, also called generative engine optimization (GEO), is the work of getting your brand mentioned, described accurately and cited when people ask AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and Google AI Mode for recommendations. It builds on SEO, because AI tools pull from the same pages and sources that rank in search. AI tools give one answer instead of ten links, so the brands they name win the click, the lead and often the sale.

Answer engine optimization (AEO) is the closely related work of structuring your pages so Google’s AI Overviews, featured snippets and AI tools can pull them as the direct answer to a buyer’s question. We handle SEO, AEO and GEO together.

More revenue per ChatGPT visit

$1.05 to $6.33 in one quarter for one client

Original Research

We analyzed 1,044 AI answers, mostly from ChatGPT, with 4,872 brand recommendations and 5,376 citations, to see which brands get recommended and which pages get cited.

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84%

of citations went to company websites

96%

of brands recommended when their site was cited

Other business model?

Whether you run a non-profit, an educational organization or a website that serves another purpose, our SEO, AEO, GEO and LLM optimization consulting can grow your visibility in search results and AI answers.

How We Get Your Brand Recommended by AI Tools

Measure where you stand

We track the real prompts your buyers ask AI tools, how often you’re mentioned and which sources get cited, plus your AI traffic, leads and revenue.

Make sure AI tools can read your site

Many AI crawlers don’t run JavaScript. We check rendering, robots.txt rules for AI bots, schema and indexation, and give your developers clear fixes.

Answer the questions buyers ask

We map each prompt to the best page on your site, then add what’s missing: cost, comparisons, who you’re best for, proof and results.

Fix how the web describes you

LLMs repeat what other sites say. We clean up company profiles, directories and review sites, and help your PR team target the awards AI tools cite.

Track what it’s worth

Every month you’ll see AI visibility by prompt, Google rankings, and the traffic, leads and revenue from each AI tool.

SEO, AEO & GEO Case Studies

TRAVEL LEAD QUALITY

For a travel company, we graded 461 form submissions and traced each one to the page and campaign it came from. The best itinerary pages produced high-quality leads up to 88% of the time, and 10% of submissions turned out to be staff testing the forms.

FINANCIAL SERVICES KNOWLEDGE BASE

We planned a knowledge base for a national financial services firm, from topic structure and keyword research to content briefs for each page. Google ranked it on the first page for 76% more searches than the year before (Aug 26 to Sep 22, 2026 vs. 2025), even as AI Overviews answer more of these questions on the results page. To drive new growth, we target true content gaps for Google keywords and AI search prompts with new and updated pages.

ECOMMERCE REBUILD DIAGNOSIS

An online retailer’s traffic fell after a site rebuild. We found that about half of the year-over-year drop started before the rebuild, in line with the AI Overview trend, and that Google was ignoring the site’s chosen URL on 3,528 pages. Fixes are underway.

SEO & GEO Results

A few examples from client work in 2026:

National eCommerce brand: revenue from AI referrals grew from about $3,000 to $21,000 quarter over quarter.

+76%

National financial services firm: its knowledge base ranks on Google’s first page for 76% more searches year over year, even as AI Overviews cut clicks.

88%

Travel company: its best itinerary page produced high-quality leads 88% of the time, which showed where to send paid traffic.

Before founding Kern Media, Dan doubled organic search revenue for three eCommerce sites in 12 months and led SEO for a publisher with 200+ websites. See more in our case studies.

★★★★★
Rated 5.0 stars across 23 Google reviews
(read our reviews)

★★★★★

“Dan has significantly helped our company ramp up our SEO efforts which has directly resulted in signing on several new clients. His expertise in content marketing alone was well worth our investment. His work with keyword ranking and migrating our website was also extremely beneficial in making our site more prevalent in search results. We highly recommend Dan for your SEO consulting needs!”

Newel (Google review)

★★★★★

“Dan and the Kern Media team so impressed me with their expertise that he was my first call when I changed jobs and needed to hire an SEO consultant. Our organic traffic continues to grow as we’ve followed the content and technical recommendations from the team. Dan is great at explaining complicated terms simply and extremely responsive. I highly recommend working with Kern Media.”

Ashley (Google review)

★★★★★

“Dan & Kern Media have been awesome to work with for many years. We’ve seen incredible growth with our organic results and have grown our keyword footprint immensely. Dan’s technical acumen and knowledge of the “SEO” space is impressive. If you ever get the chance to work with Dan and Team, DO IT!!! Thank you for all that you have done and continue to do! We appreciate you, @Dan!”

Tim (Google review)

We work with any company that’s a good fit: an established website, a team (or developer) who can make changes, and leads or sales from search and AI that matter to the business. Most of our clients fall into two groups:

eCommerce Brands

More Sales

Online stores that want more traffic and sales from Google, AI search and AI shopping results.

eCommerce SEO & GEO

Lead Generation Businesses

More Qualified Leads

B2B and B2C service companies that want more leads from the questions buyers ask Google and AI tools.

Lead Gen SEO & GEO

Industries we’ve helped

eCommerce & RetailB2B TechnologyFinancial ServicesEducationTravelPublishing & MediaMulti-Location Businesses

We keep client names confidential. Many clients have worked with us for 5+ years, and our longest client relationship goes back to 2013.

See our services for how engagements, pricing and timelines work, or our case studies for detailed results.

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Amanda Ferm

When Kern Media came in, they inherited nearly 30 years of accumulated SEO debt. Dan helped us untangle and clean up years of technical and content issues, build a much stronger SEO foundation, and ultimately allowed us to outrank our competitors for the most valuable keywords in our industry. What I appreciated most was that they didn't treat SEO as a static checklist. Their strategic appoach helped us understand how search was evolving, what changes actually mattered, and where we needed to adapt. As AI began reshaping search and discovery, they were already helping us think beyond traditional SEO and understand what emerging AI-driven search meant for our visibility. Kern Media brought both deep expertise and a practical, strategic approach to the work. They significantly improved our visibility while building a strong organic search foundation that positioned us to stay ahead of the curve as search continues to evolve—from traditional SEO to the rapidly changing world of AI-driven discovery.

Keith Nickoles

I have partnered professionally with Dan and his team at Kern Media for over five years, and their SEO strategies consistently deliver impressive results. I've never seen a system so detail-oriented. It's impressive to witness and be a part of. I strongly recommend their services to any business seeking a reliable, long-term partner for digital growth.

Ashley Mo

Dan and the Kern Media team so impressed me with their expertise that he was my first call when I changed jobs and needed to hire an SEO consultant. Our organic traffic continues to grow as we've followed the content and technical recommendations from the team. Dan is great at explaining complicated terms simply and extremely responsive. I highly recommend working with Kern Media.

Benjamin Smith

Within minutes of talking to Dan he was able to help me troubleshoot a good deal why my search rankings were struggling. He has fantastic insight and truly is expert in the ever-changing world of SEO.

Mike W

Working with Dan has been a pivotal part of our company. For the past 10 years, we've been selling furniture online and have achieved early success in ranking well on Google. However, our pages were not structured to rank effectively. After our traffic began steadily declining, we decided to engage with Kern Media to improve our ranking and hopefully bring more traffic to the site. Our organic traffic has since more than doubled in less than a year. As the holiday season approached, Dan had the idea to come out with a Black Friday page and created a content brief for us to follow. Within a week, the page was ranking 3rd on Google for "Black Friday cat trees," which helped lead to a record-breaking Black Friday Sale. Kern Media has been quick to respond to questions, always available to talk through issues, and has been a pleasure to work with.

Tim Hampton

Dan & Kern Media have been awesome to work with for many years. We've seen incredible growth with our organic results and have grown our keyword footprint immensely. Dan's technical acumen and knowledge of the "SEO" space is impressive. If you ever get the chance to work with Dan and Team, DO IT!!! Thank you for all that you have done and continue to do! We appreciate you, @Dan!

Karen Johnson

Dan and his team came in and really changed the game for us. To date our organic results have grown 41%. He helped us clean up our site, add quality content and provided excellent guidance so we could continue to make improvements on our own. I highly recommend!

Karyssa Cox

Kern Media has been an incredible partner in developing my team's overall SEO strategy and implementing new tactics. We've worked with Dan on a number of different complex projects as well as ongoing consultation. Dan is on top of the latest SEO trends and best practices and always has ideas on how to ensure we're making the moves we need to in order to stay ahead. Dan's expertise and attention to detail have been crucial in completing our projects successfully, and he's also been great to collaborate with on how we can use SEO as a tool to achieve our overall goals. We've been very pleased and impressed with the results and are so grateful for the opportunity to work with Kern Media. Thanks, Dan and the Kern team!

Sandra G

Dan and his team at Kern Media are truly SEO experts and our trusted advisors to us. Through their hard work our website, customer.com, is now of the first page of google search results for our area of expertise.