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Vendors ask AI before they ask you.

SEO gets your agency ranked on Google. AEO gets you quoted in AI Overviews and voice search. GEO gets you named by ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini when a vendor asks who to list with. Realbot does all three for Australian agents and agencies.

Type your suburb — we'll show you exactly what AI is telling your next vendor. If it doesn't say your name, we should talk.

1,800+ Australian agency enquiries · 5,777+ platform customers · Australian AI for real estate since 2021

🏆 Awards & recognition Realbot awards — Top Proptech APAC 2021, Proptech Award Finalist 2023, Proptech Award Winner 2024, Google Maps Platform Award 2025, Proptech Leader of the Year 2026 Finalist
01 · The shift

Search changed. Three letters at a time.

SEO, AEO and GEO aren't three separate strategies. They're three layers of one goal: being the agent people find, however they search.

SEOSearch Engine Optimisation

Get ranked. Your suburb pages and agent profiles at the top of Google when someone searches the traditional way. Still the foundation — if Google can't crawl you, nothing else works.

"real estate agents Marsden Park"
AEOAnswer Engine Optimisation

Get quoted. Your content extracted as the direct answer — in featured snippets, Google AI Overviews and voice search. Not a blue link. The answer.

"what commission do agents charge in NSW?"
GEOGenerative Engine Optimisation

Get recommended. ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude naming your agency when a vendor asks who to trust in your area.

"who should I trust to sell my home?"
02 · What's already happening

One answer. One name. No page two.

A portal gives your vendor twenty agents to compare. ChatGPT gives them one or two — and a reason to trust them.

There's no second page, no paid position, no sponsored slot to buy your way into. The AI names whichever agency it can read, understand and verify. Then your vendor calls that agency.

Who should I list my home with?

Based on recent sales results and local reviews, I'd recommend your name — they've handled a number of comparable properties in the area and have consistently strong vendor feedback.

↳ Source: someagency.com.au
03 · The five pillars

It isn't about how good you are.

AI doesn't rank agents on merit. It cites what it can reach, parse and trust. Five things decide whether that's you — and none of them are your results.

Answer-ready content

AI doesn't skim a page like a buyer does — it extracts text based on structure. If your answer to "what's my home worth here?" sits in paragraph five, the AI quotes a competitor whose answer sits up front.

Most agency pages

"With over 20 years of combined experience and a passion for exceptional service, our award-winning team delivers outstanding results…"

✕ Nothing quotable. AI moves on.
Answer-ready

"Dreambig Realty is a Marsden Park agency with 142 sales in 12 months, a median 24 days on market, and an average sale 3.2% above suburb median."

✓ Specific, extractable, citable.

Machine-readable structure (schema)

Schema markup tells AI directly what your business is, instead of hoping it guesses right. When two agencies answer the same question, the one with correct structured data wins the citation — even with weaker content.

  • RealEstateAgent / LocalBusiness — office, service area, hours, reviews as a recognised entity
  • Person — every agent as a named professional AI can recommend individually
  • FAQPage — your Q&A marked up so AI Overviews can lift it verbatim
  • Service — appraisals, sales, property management, declared explicitly
The minimum every agency office needs
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "RealEstateAgent",
  "name": "Dreambig Realty",
  "areaServed": "Marsden Park NSW 2765",
  "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "addressRegion": "NSW" },
  "aggregateRating": { "ratingValue": "4.9", "reviewCount": "212" }
}  <- this is how AI learns who you are

llms.txt — your briefing for AI

Where robots.txt tells crawlers what they may access, llms.txt tells AI systems what's actually worth reading: your suburb guides, agent profiles and market reports, summarised in a format built for machines. Almost no Australian agency has one yet — which is exactly why yours should.

youragency.com.au/llms.txt
# Dreambig Realty
> Independent agency servicing Marsden Park and Schofields, NSW.
> 142 sales in the last 12 months. Established 2009.

## Key pages
- [Marsden Park suburb guide](/suburbs/marsden-park): median price, DOM, recent sales
- [Our agents](/agents): named profiles, sales history, specialisations
- [Appraisals](/appraisal): how we price, what we charge

AI crawler access

GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and Google-Extended are separate from Googlebot. Security plugins, CDN bot rules and old robots.txt files block them by default on a large share of agency sites — silently. If AI can't crawl you, it can't cite you.

youragency.com.au/robots.txt
User-agent: GPTBot            # ChatGPT
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot         # Claude
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot     # Perplexity
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended   # Gemini & AI Overviews
Allow: /

Sitemap: https://youragency.com.au/sitemap.xml

A site fast enough to be retrieved

When someone asks AI a question, it fetches pages live, on a time budget. Slow hosting and JavaScript-only listings miss the window and the bot quotes whoever answered faster. Your profiles and suburb pages need to render server-side, with the answer already in the HTML when the crawler arrives.

04 · Your online visibility

Ten checks. Score yourself in two minutes.

Tick everything your agency website already does. Not sure about one? Leave it unticked — "not sure" is the normal answer, and it's exactly what the free audit resolves.

05 · Best practices

Twelve things that actually move the needle.

Grouped by layer. The SEO four you can brief to a web developer this week; the AEO four are content decisions; the GEO four are the ones almost nobody in Australian real estate has done yet.

SEO

Get ranked
  • 01One page per suburb you actually service — not a single "areas we cover" list.
  • 02Address and service area in HTML text, never baked into an image or banner.
  • 03Live sitemap.xml and clean canonicals on every listing and agent profile.
  • 04Google Business Profile per office, with hours, photos and reviews kept current.

AEO

Get quoted
  • 05Answer in the first sentence under every heading. Context can follow.
  • 06Real figures beat adjectives — "24 days on market" is citable, "outstanding results" isn't.
  • 07Headings as the questions vendors ask, in their words, not industry language.
  • 08Mirror every FAQ in FAQPage schema so markup and visible page never diverge.

GEO

Get recommended
  • 09Publish llms.txt at your root and keep it current as pages change.
  • 10Allow the AI crawlers in robots.txt — then confirm the CDN isn't blocking them anyway.
  • 11Keep names consistent across site, Google Business Profile and portals so AI resolves you as one entity.
  • 12Re-test citations monthly — answers drift as models and their sources update.
06 · Evidence

What happens when an agent gets cited.

"Within 90 days of AI Corner, ChatGPT cited me by name for my suburb. Two of my last six pitches started with 'I asked ChatGPT about you.'"

Dreambig Realty · Principal · NSW

90dTo first citation
2/6Pitches via AI
5AI platforms cited
  • 2021Top Proptech Company, APACRecognised in our founding year — before AI was a household word in real estate.
  • 2023Proptech Award FinalistEfficiency & Optimisation in real estate marketing.
  • 2024Proptech Award WinnerSales & Marketing — Australian proptech awards.
  • 2025Google Maps Platform AwardHonourable mention — early APAC partner since 2021.
See all awards & partnerships →
07 · Pick your path

Built for two audiences. One platform.

The AI visibility work sits inside AI Corner, included with every Realbot subscription — and scales from a single agent to an entire network.

08 · Free AI visibility audit

See what AI says about your agency.

Tell us a few quick details and our team will send your report within two business days.

  • What ChatGPT, Perplexity & Google AI name in your suburb
  • Your AI crawler access report — who can and can't read you
  • Your schema gap list, office by office
  • A prioritised fix list — quick wins separated from long work
  • Free, no obligation — you keep the report either way

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09 · Frequently asked

Fair questions.

What is AEO for real estate agents?

AEO (Answer Engine Optimisation) is structuring your agency website and agent profiles so Google AI Overviews, featured snippets and voice assistants can quote you directly when someone asks "who is the best real estate agent in my suburb?". Instead of ranking as one blue link among ten, your content becomes the answer.

What is GEO and why does it matter for my agency?

GEO (Generative Engine Optimisation) makes your agency citable by AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude. Buyers and sellers increasingly ask these tools which agent to use before they ever open a portal. If AI crawlers can't read your site, or your content isn't structured for citation, you're invisible in those conversations no matter how well you rank on Google.

How is AEO different from traditional SEO?

SEO gets your pages ranked in a list of results. AEO gets your content extracted as a direct answer in featured snippets, AI Overviews and voice search. They work together: you still need to be crawlable and rank, but you also need clear, quotable answers and correct schema markup so machines can lift them.

What schema markup should a real estate agency use?

At minimum: RealEstateAgent or LocalBusiness schema for each office (name, address, service area, opening hours), Person schema for each agent, FAQPage schema for question-and-answer content, and Service schema describing appraisals, sales and property management. Realbot implements and validates all of it as part of AI Corner.

What is an llms.txt file and does my agency website need one?

llms.txt is a plain text file at your domain root written for AI systems — a briefing that tells ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity what your site covers and which pages matter most. Adoption is growing quickly and most Australian agency websites don't have one yet, which makes it a genuine first-mover advantage. Realbot generates and maintains it for you.

How do I check whether ChatGPT mentions my real estate agency?

Ask it directly: "best real estate agent in [your suburb]", then repeat the question in Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews and record which agencies get named. Results vary by phrasing and change over time, so test several wordings and re-check monthly. Our free AI visibility audit runs this across five platforms and reports who's being cited in your suburb.

How long does it take to see results from AEO and GEO?

Technical fixes — schema, llms.txt, crawler access — take effect as soon as AI systems re-crawl your site, typically within weeks. Building citation authority in your market is ongoing. DreamBig Realty principal was cited by name in ChatGPT for their suburb within 90 days of starting AI Corner.

Is the AI visibility audit really free?

Yes — free, no obligation, and you keep the report either way. If you want help actioning what it finds, we'll quote separately. Plenty of agencies action the quick technical fixes themselves using the report.

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