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What is the average cost of hiring an SEO agency that actually understands AI search optimization and generative engines for small business websites with tight budgets?

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The searches the AI actually ran for this prompt.

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What is the average cost of hiring an SEO agency that actually understands AI search optimization and generative engines for small business websites with tight budgets?
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Badge and edge weight = share of passes that produced the query. Hover a query for its intent and routing format.

Query classes

Google's semantic query class for every sub-query: what kind of answer each search is after, simulated vs real.

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Classes come from the query-classifier (a local Laya model). 1 of 1 calls are low-confidence (under 50%) — hover a query in the table to see its confidence.

Searches and sources

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2026 US SEO agency pricing monthly small business SEO retainers AI search optimization generative engine optimization pricing Google ↗

Queries

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