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How Long Does AEO Take to See Results? (With a Real Case Study)

By Stephen Enloe · Updated September 30, 2026 · 4 min read

Last updated: September 30, 2026

Our clients often see their SEO metrics improve within 30 days, AI citations start to index and show up within 60 days, and AI citations significantly rise in both percentage and sentiment within 90 days. After three months, our client APD had almost doubled their leads.

Our clients often see their SEO metrics improve within 30 days, AI citations start to index and show up within 60 days, and AI citations significantly rise in both percentage and sentiment within 90 days. However, we have had clients who have been cited within 30 days and had significant leads and sales results within 30 days.

Month one

Month one includes an onboarding call and your first recording call, along with linking all of your accounts. We can usually make this happen within just a couple of days of signing up, and it significantly improves the timeline of your results. After that, it's one call a month, and you can do up to two if you want more content.

Once your first pieces of content are published toward the beginning of month one, you start seeing results from traditional search platforms as the pages are indexed. A lot of that content doesn't get picked up by AI search until it has been published for about a month.

Month three

By month three, we have a very large amount of content that is being continually indexed by AI search as well as regular search engines, and your web of trust signals for each of these platforms has grown to a very healthy level. Every single piece of content that we post after month three already has the baseline of AI knowing that it trusts your company, which makes every piece of content published after that work much more quickly and oftentimes have a better result.

Case study: APD

One of our clients, APD, was almost never showing up in any AI search platform, even when you searched things that were very unique to the way their company operates within their industry.

After three months of working with us, we had almost doubled their leads, and they were being cited as the top recommended company in their industry, not only for their main service offering, but also for some of their less popular service offerings. In many cases, they are now the only company cited as a recommendation for some of their most high-value buyer intent questions that people are asking AI.

How you'll know it's working

The Attractify dashboard will show you as metrics rise, traffic grows, sales increase, and leads come in the door. You will also be able to track all of these data points on your other sources independently, in order to verify their legitimacy if you ever choose to audit. We constantly cross-reference our own data with the data of other third-party data providers, as well as your Google services and website services, to ensure their accuracy.

Although our results have been positive for all of our clients thus far, we always welcome feedback and any questions, so you can understand the information we're giving you about your company more deeply.

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