
SEO Isn’t Dead. AI Search Is Raising the Bar.
AI Overviews. AI Mode. GEO. AEO. LLM SEO. It’s a lot. And if you’re running a home service company, you may be wondering whether everything you’ve been told about SEO suddenly doesn’t matter anymore. It does. Search is absolutely changing. But one of the most important takeaways from Google’s recent #ReThinkROI event was actually pretty simple: The fundamentals still matter. AI-powered search is built on top of Google’s existing crawling, indexing and ranking systems. Google still needs to understand your website, your business and why you’re relevant. What’s changing is how much information can be brought together to answer someone’s question. That doesn’t mean SEO is dead. It means the bar is getting higher. Do you really need another acronym? There’s already a whole new vocabulary around AI search. GEO. AEO. LLM optimization. Some of these concepts will absolutely matter as search continues to evolve. But home service companies shouldn’t








