PR for SEO and GEO.
Search visibility has always been a performance game. Large Language Models have just rewritten the rule book.
Today, when your buyers ask Google, ChatGPT, or Perplexity a question, they receive a synthesized, authoritative response delivered before they even click. Winning the conversation is no longer a function of rankings. So, what moves the needle? Increasingly, it is PR that becomes the foundation of your SEO/GEO strategy.
PR isn't a
nice-to-have for SEO.
It's the engine.
Public relations, in the form of earned media and authoritative third-party coverage, is the most powerful lever in a GEO campaign. A feature in a major trade publication has long been a credibility signal to your audience, and now it’s one for Google and other LLMs as well. Why? Because high-authority publishers pass domain authority, and journalists who reference your research become natural citation sources. Spokespeople who earn consistent coverage build recognition that search algorithms reward over time.
Antenna's media relations work is optimized for exactly this outcome. Every placement we secure in outlets your audiences read and that search engines trust compounds over time into a durable, sustained SEO advantage.
In the age of AI search, earned media owns the answer.
AI engines respond to prompts by scraping trusted third-party media platforms. It is media coverage that drives your GEO success. Recent research indicates that 89 percent of the links cited in AI-generated responses come from earned media sources. Since Google rolled out AI Overviews, overall website clicks have dropped roughly 60 percent. In this world, some of your prospects may never visit your site. Instead, their behavior is shaped by the answer assembled by AI.
Strong GEO is built on volume, recency, and narrative consistency across authoritative sources such as top-tier trade media, trade publications, expert commentary, thought leadership, and wire distributions. In other words, GEO is a function PR teams are uniquely positioned to drive. Building an earned media presence, maintaining message consistency across media placements, and establishing cross-source authority are dopamine for AI engines that only PR can supply.
What Antenna does differently.
Antenna’s approach integrates media relations and SEO/GEO strategy from the start. A placement with the right messaging in the right outlet performs well; however, a placement in the wrong outlet at the wrong time, with inconsistent messaging, will actively undermine your search presence. We're strategic and thoughtful about where your brand appears, what it says, and how its narrative stacks up across sources over time.
For our clients in climate, energy, real estate, and health, this means we leverage our domain expertise to articulate a compelling, differentiated message, place it in the appropriate media, and optimize for SEO and GEO. We track which publications your buyers' AI engines actually cite, engine by engine, and build placement strategy around it.
Targeted placement in outlets that AI engines cite.
Narrative consistency built for AI recognition.
Generative engines learn to associate brands with ideas when the same clear, differentiated, direct language appears repeatedly across diverse, authoritative sources. We engineer that consistency into every pitch and thought leadership campaign.
Thought leadership formatted for AI extraction.
Answer-ready content that is structured, factual, and free of jargon performs better in both traditional SEO and AI-generated results.
Wire distribution as a GEO signal. AI platforms actively index and reference press release wire distributions alongside earned coverage. We treat every release as both a news vehicle and a GEO asset.
Information is power.
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