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SEO, AEO, GEO and AIO checklist for 2026: how to optimise a website for Google and AI search

Veridiancode — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 17:32:07 +0000

Most guides to AEO, GEO or AI SEO are written to sell a new service. This one is a working checklist, the same one we use on veridiancode.com and on client sites. We checked it against what Google, Microsoft (Bing and Copilot), OpenAI, Anthropic and Perplexity publish, the largest independent studies and the most-watched videos on the subject, as of 27 October 2026. Where a point is our own advice rather than a source's, we say so. If you only need the definitions, our shorter guide to AEO and GEO vs SEO covers them.
The search companies don't treat these as separate disciplines. Google's guide to optimising for its generative AI features, added on 15 May 2026, files AEO and GEO under SEO and lists the AI-specific tricks it ignores. Microsoft uses the word GEO itself, calling Bing's AI citation report an early step towards GEO tooling, and its guidance makes a similar point: AI answers share the same foundation as ordinary search (crawling, understanding and ranking the web), even though grounding an answer is optimised for a different outcome. So the fundamentals come first, and the AI-specific work sits on top of them.
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India digital marketing price index, Q4 2026

Veridiancode — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 17:27:59 +0000

The index at a glance

We confirmed 889 published prices from 199 Indian agencies, studios and freelancers, read on 28 October 2026.
A business website: median ₹19,999, with the middle half of published prices between ₹12,999 and ₹34,999.
Monthly SEO packages: median ₹20,000 a month. Social media management: median ₹15,000 a month.
Ads management fees: median ₹15,000 a month for Google Ads and ₹14,999 for Meta Ads.
Logo design alone: median ₹4,999. A single reel or short video: median ₹1,999. Google Business Profile management: median ₹5,999 a month.
This index collects the prices that Indian digital marketing agencies, studios and freelancers publish on their own websites, for seven services: websites, SEO, social media management, Google Ads and Meta Ads management, reels and video, logo and branding, and Google Business Profile. Every figure comes from a price we read on the provider's own page and then confirmed in a second, independent check.

It shows what providers ask in public for their listed packages, not what clients end up paying after a custom quote. Veridian Code sells most of these services, so we left our own prices out. The method and every source are below, and the full data is free to download, so anyone can check the work.
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DPDP and your website: what Indian businesses actually have to do

Veridiancode — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 17:24:19 +0000

India's Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 were notified on 14 November 2025. The substantive obligations — the ones that change what your website has to do — land in May 2027.

That sounds far away. It is not, for one specific reason: the consent decisions you make now determine whether your ad tracking still works when the rules bite. Businesses that bolt a consent banner on at the last minute typically lose a large share of their conversion data overnight, because the banner blocks the tags and nothing was configured to handle it. Businesses that plan for it keep most of their measurement through modelling.
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