Engineers and buyers now ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews which suppliers to call. SEO 1A makes sure your company ranks in search and gets named in those answers.
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Three free tools. Straight answers about your website.
See your site the way buyers, AI answer engines and the W3C see it, then decide what to fix.
ADA/WCAG Compliance Check
Scan any page for WCAG 2.1 AA failures: missing alt text, unlabeled forms, low contrast and more. These barriers lock out visitors with disabilities and can expose you to ADA complaints.
Run the ADA/WCAG checkAI Visibility Check
Answer five quick questions and get an estimated score for how visible your company is in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot and Google AI Overviews.
Check my AI visibilityW3C HTML & CSS Validator
Run your page code through the W3C's own validator engine and see every HTML and CSS error, with line numbers. Code errors confuse screen readers, search crawlers and AI tools.
Validate my codeSearch used to send clicks. AI answers send names. If an AI tool doesn't know your OEM or EMS company, its capabilities and its certifications, it recommends someone else.
Manufacturing SEO still matters, because AI answer engines lean on pages that already rank and are easy to crawl. But winning the answer takes more: structured data, direct answers to technical questions, and a brand that is described the same way everywhere.
| Factor | Classic search | AI answer engines |
|---|---|---|
| What the buyer sees | Ten blue links and ads | One written answer naming a short list of suppliers |
| What earns the spot | Relevance, links and technical health | Clear facts, structured data and consistent third-party citations |
| What to measure | Rankings, clicks and conversions | How often and how accurately your company is named and cited |
SEO 1A works only with manufacturing and industrial companies. Every engagement combines three disciplines, because ranking, being cited and being measured are now one job.
Search engine optimization (SEO)
Rank for the parts, processes and capabilities buyers search for.
Technical manufacturing SEO that turns your capabilities into pages Google can understand.
Generative engine optimization (GEO)
Get named and cited in AI-written answers.
Content and code shaped so language models can quote your company with confidence.
LLM visibility tracking
Know where you appear, and where competitors do instead.
Ongoing measurement of how AI tools describe your company and your category.
See our sales tools for manufacturers in action
Manufacturing SEO brings the right buyers to your site. These two tools tell you who they are and help you follow up.
AI Sales Assistant
The AI Sales Assistant identifies your website visitors by name and email, finds your most engaged prospects, and emails them for you, so your sales team spends its time on real opportunities.
Learn about the AI Sales AssistantAre you ready to unlock the potential of artificial intelligence for sales? Are you tired of paying hundreds or thousands of dollars for advertisements and paying for clicks to your website that don’t convert into leads?
By leveraging our cutting-edge Tell You Who sales leads AI product, you’ll have the power to identify your website visitors by name and gather their contact information. But what then? Our AI sales assistant can turn visitors into sales leads. Our innovative AI-powered sales assistant proactively reaches out to the identified prospects, encouraging them to get in touch with you for more details about the exact product or service they were already viewing on your site.
Cost efficiency of AI-powered sales assistance versus human sales assistance: when you opt for an AI-powered sales assistant, you eliminate the need for salaries, commissions, workers’ compensation, health insurance and 401(k) matches. Instead, you pay a modest monthly fee that fits comfortably within your budget.
Support your sales team with an AI-powered sales assistant. Enhance your lead generation and support your human team with the efficiency and reliability of an AI-powered sales assistant. Make an AI sales assistant the choice for your next hire and see your sales soar.
Tell You Who visitor identification
Tell You Who shows which people and companies visit your website, with a prospect summary that includes their company, office location, contact details and the source that brought them to you.
Learn about Tell You WhoThis is Chris, a member of your business-to-business sales team. He’s always looking for more leads. He knows your company website has plenty of visitors, but he’s not receiving very many leads from it.
Chris goes to the marketing department. This is Linda, the marketing director. She tells Chris that the SEO is great and website traffic is through the roof. Chris tells Linda that he wants more leads, not just analytics with traffic numbers.
Linda tells Chris, “We have a new program that will get you lots of leads.” Chris says, “Tell me more.” Linda explains that we can now identify website visitors from the USA by name and also provide their company name, job title, email address and phone number, and tell you what they were looking at.
Chris jumps up and down and says, “Yahoo! Yippee!” Get your free trial of Tell You Who today.
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The SEO 1A Visibility Scorecard rates a manufacturer from 0 to 100 on how findable it is in search and in AI answers.
We have scored more than 100 electronics and industrial manufacturers with this method. Each score comes from five weighted categories.
Scores place a company in one of three tiers:
Check your website's ADA, WCAG and W3C compliance in under a minute.
WCAG 2.1 AA is the standard most often used to judge whether a website meets ADA accessibility expectations. Accessible pages also help manufacturing SEO: clean headings, labeled forms and descriptive image text are easier for search crawlers and AI tools to read.
Enter any page address and we run three checks at once:
Most websites fail at least one of these checks. Code errors can confuse screen readers, search engine crawlers and AI tools, and they are usually quick to fix once you know where they are.
Every engagement follows the same three steps, so you always know what we are doing and why.
Score
We benchmark your company with the Visibility Scorecard: rankings in Google and Bing, and how ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot and Claude describe you today.
Fix
We correct technical issues, add schema.org structured data, rewrite pages to answer buyer questions directly, and align your company facts everywhere they appear.
Prove
Monthly reporting shows ranking movement, AI citations gained, and weekly visitor intelligence reports that identify which companies are reading your pages.
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Straight answers to the questions manufacturers ask us most about search, AI answer engines and accessibility.
Manufacturing SEO is the practice of making a manufacturer's website rank in Google and Bing for the products, processes and capabilities that engineers and buyers search for, such as part types, materials, certifications and tolerances.
GEO is the work of getting a company named and cited in answers written by AI tools such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Claude and Google AI Overviews. It focuses on clear, factual, well-structured content that language models can quote with confidence.
LLM visibility measures how often and how accurately large language models mention your company when people ask about your products or your industry. SEO 1A measures it with the AI, GEO and SEO Visibility Scorecard.
No. AI answer engines draw heavily on pages that already rank and are easy to crawl. Strong traditional SEO is the foundation, and GEO adds structured data, answer-first content and consistent brand citations on top of it.
The scorecard rates a company from 0 to 100 across five weighted categories: AI Answer Engine Presence (30%), Structured Data and Crawlability (25%), Content Answerability (20%), Traditional SEO Foundations (15%) and Brand Citation Consistency (10%). Scores over 80 are Competitive, 50 to 80 are Developing, and under 50 are Invisible.
SEO 1A works only with manufacturing and industrial companies, including electronics and SMT manufacturers, semiconductor packaging suppliers, wire and cable makers, contract manufacturers, industrial equipment builders and materials suppliers.
Technical and structured data fixes are usually picked up by search engines within a few weeks. Ranking gains and new AI citations build over several months as improved content is indexed and third-party mentions accumulate.
Find out what AI tools say about your company before your buyers do.
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