AI SEO Course: Learn SEO, GEO & AEO
The complete search course for 2026: rank on Google, get cited by AI answers, and turn both into clients. Every lesson has a video and narration.
A plumber I know spent two years and a lot of money on an SEO agency. His site ranked for his own name and nothing else. When I asked ChatGPT who to call for a water heater in his city, it named three of his competitors and not him. He had done "SEO" the whole time. He had just never been taught what search actually rewards.
That is the gap this course closes. Search did not stop working. It split in two. People still type into Google, and now they also ask an AI for an answer and take the first name it gives them. If you want clients from search in 2026, you have to show up in both places, and the skills overlap more than you would think.
What you learn, module by module
Why search makes money. How a search turns into a phone call, why local search is the fastest path to a paying client, what search cannot do, and the audit mindset you will use on every site after this.
What every page must have. Titles, headings, body copy, images, internal links, schema, and the small technical details that decide whether a page is eligible to rank at all. You learn to read a page the way Google does.
Keywords: finding what to target. Search intent, buyer keywords versus research keywords, clustering, and prioritizing by what pays instead of what has the biggest number next to it.
Site structure. Money pages and content pages, hubs and spokes, mapping keyword clusters to URLs, internal linking as architecture, and the anatomy of a page that converts.
Content that ranks and gets cited. Reading the top five results, outlining with answer-first blocks, writing for chunking and specificity, adding the human layer, drafting with AI without producing slop, and refreshing old pages.
AEO and GEO: winning AI search. How AI answers get built, query fan-out, why citations are probabilities, how ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI differ, brand mentions and prompt research, running a brand gap analysis, content built for citation, YouTube for AI visibility, technical AEO, and fixing what AI says about you.
How the lessons work
Every lesson has a short video and a narrated version of the text, so you can watch, listen, or read. The writing is conversational and specific: real examples, real pages, and the exact things to look for. No padding.
Who this is for
Freelancers and agency owners who want to sell search as a service. Business owners who are tired of paying for results they cannot see. Marketers and developers who know the old SEO playbook and need the AI half. If you can read a web page and think about what a customer would type, you can do this course.
Honest expectations
Search is slow. Pages take weeks to rank and months to earn citations, and no course changes that. What this course changes is whether the work you do in those months is the right work. You will leave able to audit a site, explain what is wrong in plain language, and fix it in the order that matters. That is the skill clients pay for.
What you'll learn
- ✓ Explain how Google, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI Overviews each decide what to show, and why that changes what you build
- ✓ Run keyword research that finds buyer intent, clusters topics, and prioritizes by money instead of volume
- ✓ Plan a site structure with money pages, hubs, and spokes that search engines and AI crawlers can follow
- ✓ Write pages and articles that rank, read well, and get quoted in AI answers
- ✓ Run a brand gap analysis to see where competitors get mentioned and you do not
- ✓ Fix the technical AEO issues that keep AI crawlers from reading or citing a site
- ✓ Audit any business website and explain in plain language what it needs
Course Curriculum
7 sections · 56 lessons
1
Introduction
3 lessons
- Overview
- Going Over The Course
- Resources
2
Module 1: Why Search Makes Money
8 lessons
- Intent vs Interruption: Why Search Is Different
- The Three Surfaces You Are Optimizing For
- How Search Revenue Actually Works
- Revenue Per Page, Not Visitors Per Page
- What a Lead Is Worth: Unit Economics
- Where AEO Fits: Small Traffic, High Conversion
- Why Local Is the Fastest Money
- What Search Cannot Do
3
Module 2: What Every Page Must Have
13 lessons
- The Audit Mindset
- Title Tags
- Meta Descriptions
- Heading Hierarchy
- URL Structure
- Images: Filenames, Alt Text, and File Size
- Links On the Page
- Schema: What It Is and Which Type
- Can This Page Even Be Found?
- Speed and Mobile Rendering
- The Two-Second Test
- What Is Not a Ranking Factor
- The Complete Page Checklist
4
Module 3: Keywords: Finding What To Target
13 lessons
- What a Keyword Is, and the Vocabulary Gap
- The Four Search Intents
- Reading Intent Off the Results Page
- The Business Brief
- Free Idea Sources
- Running a Keyword Tool
- Mining Competitors for Keywords
- Volume, Traffic Potential, and Clicks
- Business Value Scoring
- Judging Difficulty Honestly
- The AI Filter
- The 4-Gate Filter
- Clustering Into Topics and Funnels
5
Module 4: Site Structure
5 lessons
- Money Pages, Content Pages, and One Page Per Service
- Hubs, Spokes, and URL Patterns
- Mapping Clusters to Pages: The Site Map Spec
- Internal Linking as Architecture
- Money Page Anatomy
6
Module 5: Content That Ranks and Gets Cited
6 lessons
- Reading the Top Five and Finding the Gaps
- The Outline and Answer-First Blocks
- Writing for Chunking, Sources, and Specificity
- The Human Layer
- Drafting With AI Without Producing Slop
- Refreshing Old Pages
7
Module 6: AEO and GEO: Winning AI Search
8 lessons
- What Is AEO, GEO, and SEO?
- How AI Answers Get Built and Query Fan-Out
- Citations Are Probabilities and the Visibility Ladder
- Platform Differences
- Brand Mentions and Prompt Research
- Running a Brand Gap Analysis
- Content Built for Citation and YouTube for AI Visibility
- Technical AEO and Fixing What AI Says About You
Before you start
- ✓ No coding required. You will look at HTML, but every tag is explained
- ✓ A free Google Search Console account helps for the measurement lessons
Frequently asked questions
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