Your customers have started asking ChatGPT, Gemini and Google’s AI for recommendations. Right now, almost no one in your market is optimised to be the answer. That gap closes fast.
See what ChatGPT, Gemini and Google’s AI say about your business today, and how to become the answer they recommend.
Real brands we have grown with SEO and AI Search, across ecommerce, lead generation and local.
High and rising interest with almost no optimised competition is exactly the gap that disappears once everyone piles in. Here is where that window stands today.
Asking ChatGPT, Gemini or Google’s AI for a recommendation, instead of scrolling ten blue links, is now everyday behaviour, and it grows every month. Your customers have already changed how they search.
Hardly anyone in your market is set up to be the AI answer. Whoever claims these recommendations now becomes the default customers see for years. It is cheap to win today, and it will not stay that way.
AI search is where SEO was in the early 2000s. Models learn from and reinforce the established answer, so whoever wins these recommendations first keeps them. Late movers spend years trying to dislodge the default.
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Book a Free Strategy CallModern Pet is an Australian pet ecommerce brand we manage. In the six months to June 2026, AI assistants sent them A$8,360 in sales across 53 orders, with four times more AI-referred visits than the year before. Those visits buy at 3.4%, close to double the rate of regular Google search, and five separate assistants now send them customers: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude and Copilot. Most competitors in the category get close to none.
No trick, and nothing off a shelf. We got the fundamentals ranking first, because AI assistants build their answers from pages that already rank in Google. We structured every page so a model can lift the answer straight from it, matched the questions real buyers actually ask, and earned the reviews and citations models trust. Then we tracked which assistants picked it up and did more of what worked.
Traditional search engine optimisation is still critical. Google and Bing still account for 80% of total search volume. But the smartest brands are blending that foundation with AI for content optimisation to unlock incremental traffic and conversions. We use paid search as a test bed to identify high-performing, high-converting keywords. Then, those insights are deployed across your SEO and AI search SEO strategies, maximising your ROI across all platforms. The result? Lower acquisition costs, increased visibility, and scalable profit growth.
Our Process
A deliberate sequence that makes your business the answer AI reaches for, across Google, ChatGPT and every assistant your customers use.
We test what the major AI engines say about your category and your brand today, and where competitors are already named. You see where you stand before spending a dollar.
We structure your key pages the way models extract and cite information: clear questions, direct answers, defensible facts. Written to be quoted, not just to rank.
AI answers lean on sources they trust. We earn the mentions, reviews and references these models pull from, so your name keeps coming up.
We track AI citations, share of answer and the leads they drive, then double down on what is landing. Visibility compounds over time.
“The traffic to our website increased by a whopping 65%, leading to a significant improvement in our transactions by 15%. Their innovative strategies helped us achieve a 22% increase in organic revenue.”
“Partnering with the team at Kia Ora has been an absolute game-changer for our organic growth. In just last month’s data alone, our non-branded search revenue is up over 41%. They execute a highly tailored strategy that delivers measurable revenue growth.”
“So happy with our results. Our organic web visitors more than doubled in 5 months, with sales coming through pages we run no paid advertising on. Always great to chat to Dan and Ben for extra inspiration.”
“They are metric-focused, which is really important to us as an eCommerce brand. We’ve seen consistent growth in organic traffic and revenue, and their team always ties activity back to measurable results.”
“Kia Ora Digital have been our SEO partner and the results have genuinely exceeded our expectations. From the start they took the time to understand our business and our products, then built a clear, considered strategy to match.”
“From the outset, they took the time to understand our brand, our audience, and our growth goals. Their approach is data-led, transparent, and performance-driven.”
“Dan and Ben helped with our small OSH consultants business here in New Zealand and the sales just keep coming! Well done and I will recommend them to other businesses looking to grow.”
“Partnering with Kia Ora Digital has been one of the best decisions we’ve made for our business.”
“Only 3 months in and they have already exceeded our expectations. Dan knows his stuff. We only wish we had chosen Kia Ora earlier instead of some of the other cowboys in the industry.”
Not vague AI strategy. A concrete program to get your business cited, quoted and recommended.
Your customers are already asking AI who to buy from. Book a free strategy call and we will show you what ChatGPT, Gemini and Google’s AI say about your market today, and how to become the business they recommend.
AI search is where SEO was in the early 2000s. The businesses that show up in AI answers now become the default recommendations customers see for years, because models learn from and reinforce the established answer.
Late movers spend years and budgets trying to dislodge them. Moving early is the whole advantage, and the window is open right now.
We don’t chase awards, we chase results that earn them. Your business deserves an SEO partner the industry has already vouched for.
These awards aren’t vanity metrics. They’re proof of a different way to do SEO. While others chase clicks, we forecast revenue. While others run SEO and paid in silos, we blend them into one system built for profit. The awards are nice. The compounding revenue is nicer.
Still got unanswered questions?
Or still wondering if AI search is right for your business?
LLMs, or Large Language Models, are advanced AI systems (like ChatGPT) trained to understand and generate human-like text. In modern digital marketing, LLMs are becoming a key tool in content creation, search analysis, and even customer interaction.
At Kia Ora Digital, we integrate LLMs into our blended search strategy to uncover hidden traffic opportunities and adapt to the evolving AI-driven search landscape. LLM optimisation is now as critical as SEO in any digital marketing company serious about staying competitive.
LLM optimisation ensures your content is discoverable in conversational AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity. With more users turning to AI for answers, being optimised for these platforms increases your visibility, drives high-intent traffic, and gives you a competitive edge. It’s the next evolution of SEO optimisation AI and an essential part of any future-proof digital strategy.
Traditional SEO focuses on optimising content for search engines like Google and Bing. AI SEO optimisation goes a step further. It tailors your content and structure for AI-powered platforms and LLMs, which interpret and present content differently. The goal is to ensure your site ranks in both search engines and conversational AI responses.
LLMs are changing how people search, but most agencies ignore this shift. We track where AI-generated traffic is going (including to your competitors) and advise how to integrate these emerging queries into your blended search strategy for maximum future-proofing.
At Kia Ora Digital, we take a specialised approach to AI optimisation. We write and rework your key pages and articles so they’re readable, answer-focused, and aligned with current AI behaviour trends. Our in-house SEO tools test your content’s suitability for LLM parsing and refine it to boost inclusion likelihood.
We then continue to monitor AI performance metrics, adapt to changes, and improve your positioning based on real data. By combining all of the above with our LLM optimisation process, we ensure your business is visible, relevant, and profit-ready, whether users search via Google, Bing, or AI chat tools.
Yes. While AI for SEO optimisation is designed for AI platforms, it also enhances your visibility in Google’s AI Overviews and traditional SERPs.
By aligning content with AI models’ preferences, your site becomes more authoritative, structured, and relevant: factors that positively influence both AI and search engine performance.
AI Overviews are Google’s AI-generated summaries that appear at the top of some search results. Powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), these overviews provide quick, conversational answers pulled from various sources, often replacing traditional featured snippets.
For businesses, getting visibility in AI Overviews is the next frontier of search. At Kia Ora Digital, we treat this as a vital part of our LLM optimisation and AI SEO optimisation strategy. Not only do we help you appear in search engine listings, but also inside the actual AI-generated answers users are reading.
LLMs like those used by Google, OpenAI (ChatGPT), and Anthropic (Claude) generate AI Overviews by scanning and interpreting indexed web content. These models evaluate authority, clarity, and structure to summarise the most relevant and trustworthy information into a brief, conversational response.
For eCommerce, AI for content optimisation helps you target product-related queries in both search engines and AI chat platforms. We structure your content to address purchase intent, answer product-related questions, and ensure your brand is recommended by AI tools when users search for items you sell.
Content optimisation for AI ensures your messaging is discoverable, clear, and aligned with user search intent across all platforms. It bridges the gap between SEO, CRO, and brand messaging, helping you capture attention in traditional search, AI responses, and voice-based queries.
Our approach to AI content optimisation combines expert copywriting with structural precision. We create content that answers user intent, uses clean formatting for LLM parsing, and includes context-rich sections designed to be extracted by AI. This improves your chances of being featured in both search results and AI-generated responses.
The best way to stay ahead is to follow reliable search engine optimisation news sources and partner with a forward-thinking agency. At Kia Ora Digital, we monitor AI developments, Google algorithm changes, and emerging trends daily, integrating these updates into your strategy through ongoing optimisation AI efforts.
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