AI SEO agency forclinics, treatment centersand health brands

What does an AI SEO agency do?

An AI SEO agency does classic SEO and then the extra work AI answers need: making sure every AI crawler can read you, that engines see your business as one clear entity, that your pages answer real questions in plain words, and that other trusted sites mention you. Then it measures each engine separately, every month.

That last part separates the real ones from the rest. Google says outright that "No third-party tool has access to our internal ranking or AI systems," so honest measurement means platform reports plus repeated, written-down question tests, not a mystery score. Here is what a PELORA program delivers:

How do you choose an AI SEO agency?

Ask questions that only a team doing the real work can answer well. These ten cover most of it, with what a good answer sounds like.

1. Which crawlers will you check, and how? A good answer names OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Googlebot and Bingbot, and says they will test your host and firewall, not just read robots.txt.
2. How will you measure ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google separately? Look for named reports (Search Console's Generative AI performance report, Bing's AI Performance report) and a written question set run more than once.
3. Do you report mentions, citations and recommendations as different numbers? They move differently. One blended score hides that.
4. What will you change off our website? If the answer is "nothing," most of the opportunity is being left alone. AI answers cite other sites as well as yours, such as directories, review sites and press.
5. Can you show a result with its source? A Search Console screenshot, a dated case study, a published study with its method.
6. What will you not promise? The right answer includes "a guaranteed citation."
7. Who writes the content, and who checks the facts? For health, a named clinician should approve claims. Google calls fabricated author profiles "a form of deception."
8. How many pages will you publish, and why that number? More is not better. Google treats pages built mainly to manipulate rankings as scaled content abuse.
9. Who owns the content, the listings and the accounts? You should.
10. How does this connect to bookings? The work should be judged on calls, patients and sales by source, not only on visibility.

What are the red flags when hiring an AI SEO agency?

The biggest red flag is a promise the platforms themselves say nobody can make. Compare what you hear on sales calls with what the engines publish:

Why does healthcare need a specialized AI SEO agency?

Because health is the category where a wrong sentence costs the most, and Google treats it that way. Its guidance says content on topics that affect people's health "must be highly accurate and consistent with established expert consensus," and it names trust as the most important part of what it looks for.

For a clinic or treatment center, that changes the work in four ways:

• Claims are approved, not improvised. Every outcome or treatment claim is checked by your clinician and backed by a source. We do not describe a reader's condition back to them.
• Legitimacy is made visible. License details, the medical director's name, accreditation and certifications sit on the page, in plain text an engine can read.
• Listings match public records. In our check of 180 licensed California treatment facilities, only 36% could be confidently matched in the federal locator. Mismatched listings make a business harder to verify.
• Paid and organic stay consistent. Health ads have their own rules, from LegitScript certification for addiction treatment to Google's healthcare policies. Your organic pages should never say what your ads are not allowed to.

This is personal for us. Our founder built and ran behavioral health treatment programs before PELORA, so we know what a family is checking when they ask an AI about a program at night. For the full healthcare side of our work, see healthcare marketing.

How does PELORA work in the first 90 days?

We baseline first, fix access and identity second, then build answers and mentions, with a checkpoint at 60 days.

1. Baseline. We write down the 20 to 40 questions your buyers ask, run them in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google, and read your Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools and analytics. That is the "before" picture every later report compares to.
2. Access and entity. Crawlers, indexing, snippet settings, then your name, phone and description made consistent everywhere.
3. Answers. Pages for the questions you are missing, answer first, with sources, reviewed by your team.
4. Mentions. The directories, associations and publications that engines cite in your field, plus a steady review process.
5. Report. A monthly, per-engine report in plain English: mentioned, cited, recommended, clicks, and bookings by source.

What proof should an AI SEO agency show you?

Results with a source attached, and research you can check. Here is ours.

Want to compare us with other firms? Our scored list of AI search agencies for health brands includes PELORA, scores us on the same published criteria, and says so plainly next to our entry.

Who is PELORA a fit for?

How much does an AI SEO agency cost?

At PELORA, search and AI visibility work is included in every retainer, and retainers start at $3,500 a month, plus a one-time setup fee. If you only want search and AI work, or more of it than your tier includes, our AEO, GEO and SEO program runs from $2,000 to $4,000 a month. Prefer to start with a diagnosis? The Full Growth Audit is $3,000 and includes the website SEO, AEO and GEO layer. Standard terms are a three month minimum, then month to month with 30 days notice, with a checkpoint at 60 days. Every price is on our pricing page.