Shopify SEO & AEO Consultant
Your store ranks fine. You’re still losing revenue to AI search.
An AEO consultant optimizes your brand to be cited by AI engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews) when buyers ask what to buy. Corey Fox is a senior SEO and AEO consultant for Shopify and DTC ecommerce brands doing $1M-10M, with retainers from $1,500/month.
- Shopify SEO audits
- AI visibility audits
- Schema conflict fixes
- 2-week Fix Sprints
- Collection cleanup
- Monthly SEO + AEO
8 minutes of analysis. A 20-minute call. No pitch, just your numbers.
Work spans: premium cookware · European fragrance · specialty food · DTC apparel
Recent results
Revenue, not rankings. First-party GA4 data.
+116%
organic revenue
Premium cookware brand. Organic revenue grew from $1.14M to $2.47M year over year on flat sessions. Revenue per session more than doubled.
+121%
organic revenue
European fragrance house on Shopify. Organic revenue grew from €15.0k to €33.3k year over year. One market grew 88% on zero paid spend.
The problem
The report looks fine. The revenue doesn’t.
Your rankings held. Your content calendar is full. And your organic traffic is still sliding.
That is not a ranking problem. AI Overviews, Google’s AI-generated answers shown above the traditional results, now sit at the top of the page, and shoppers get their answer without ever clicking through.
If your store is not the source the AI cites, you are invisible at the exact moment your buyer is deciding.
How it works
What does an AEO consultant do?
Three things, in this order.
01
Quantify
Pull your data and put a dollar figure on the organic traffic value lost in the last 12 months, which competitors displaced you, and where you are missing from AI-generated answers.
02
Build
Technical foundation, clean Product and review schema (the conflicts Shopify themes and review apps create by default), entity optimization, and citation-ready content.
03
Dominate
You become the default cited source in your category, a moat competitors cannot quickly copy.
Pricing
How much does an AEO consultant cost?
Fixed prices, clear scope. Audit fees are credited in full if you book the Fix Sprint or a retainer within 30 days.
$39
Shopify Schema Kit
Fix the Product schema conflicts your theme and review apps create.
Most booked
$1,500
Shopify SEO Audit
Technical, schema, and collection audit plus a 5-query AI search check. Ranked fix list in 10 business days.
$2,500
AI Visibility Audit
20+ buyer prompts across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI Overviews, competitor citation map, 90-day repair plan.
$2,500
Shopify SEO Fix Sprint
Two weeks, done for you in your theme. Duplicate schema removed, collections cleaned up, templates fixed.
Retainers start at $1,500/month. AI infrastructure handles the repetitive layer (crawls, competitive analysis, audit production), so there is no team of juniors to fund. You pay for senior strategy and implementation, delivered directly.
Why a consultant
AEO consultant vs SEO agency
| AEO consultant (this) | Typical SEO agency | |
|---|---|---|
| Optimizes for | Google rankings AND AI citations | Google rankings |
| Reports | Dollar figure of lost revenue | Rankings and vanity metrics |
| Who does the work | The senior person you hired | A team of juniors |
| Retainer | From $1,500/month | $5,000-10,000/month |
| Timeline honesty | 30-90 days, stated per workstream | “6-9 months” |
The basics
What is AEO, and why haven’t your competitors caught up?
AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) is the work of making your brand the source AI engines cite when your buyers ask questions. It is the on-page counterpart to GEO (Generative Engine Optimization), which earns brand mentions through off-page reputation.
When someone asks ChatGPT which product to buy, the engine answers from the sources it considers authoritative. If that is not you, your buyer gets a recommendation and never sees your store.
The mechanics are technical, not promotional: schema markup that machines can parse, entity definitions that leave no ambiguity about who you are, and content structured so an AI can lift your answer and attribute it to you.
The toolkit I use is open source: claude-aeo is a set of 12 Claude skills for audits, citation testing, schema generation, and E-E-A-T scoring. Questions go in the claude-aeo GitHub discussions.
Free tools
Tools I built and use on client stores.
Run them yourself, free.
Tool
AI Overviews Revenue Leak Diagnostic
Estimate what AI answers are costing your store.
FAQs
Questions before we talk
Why does this cost less than a full agency team?
AI infrastructure handles the repetitive layer: crawls, competitive analysis, and audit production. There is no team of juniors to fund and no overhead built into the retainer. Retainers start at $1,500/month because the work is senior-level. The price is below an agency team because there is no team.
Do you work with my industry?
I work with Shopify and DTC ecommerce brands doing roughly $1M-10M in revenue. Most of my recent results come from premium product brands: cookware, fragrance, food, and apparel. I also take on a limited number of law firms. If you run a firm or you’re outside ecommerce, book a call and I’ll tell you honestly whether it’s a fit.
What makes you different from other SEO/AEO consultants?
Most consultants optimize for Google rankings. I optimize for Google and for the AI engines answering your buyers’ questions. Every engagement starts with a dollar figure, not a deliverables list, and I report on revenue from GA4, not third-party estimates. The audit infrastructure I’ve built produces in 8 minutes what agencies quote weeks for, which is why the free revenue audit exists at all.
How fast can I see results?
Technical and schema fixes usually show in 30-60 days. Content compounds over 90 days. AI citations typically appear 60-90 days after implementation. Timelines are stated per workstream up front.
What if I’ve already tried SEO and it didn’t work?
On Shopify stores, “SEO that didn’t work” usually comes down to structure: conflicting Product schema from the theme and review app, cannibalized collection pages, thin duplicate collections, or content that targets volume instead of buyers. The free audit shows which of these is costing you money.
How involved do I need to be?
Minimal. A 60-minute strategy call, access to Shopify, Search Console, and GA4, and a 15-minute weekly check-in.
See what’s costing you revenue.
Free 8-minute revenue audit, run before we ever get on a call. No pitch, no obligation. A 20-minute call and a written summary you keep either way.
- Your monthly traffic value loss, in dollars
- The named competitors who took it, and on which keywords
- Your AI visibility gap across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews
- The three highest-impact fixes, prioritized by recoverable revenue