A GEO agency (or AI SEO agency) makes sure a business is cited in the answers given by artificial intelligence, from Google’s AI Mode to Gemini and ChatGPT. In Paris, it combines search engine optimisation on Google with optimisation for AI, two levers that reinforce each other.
Oli-via-net, GEO agency in Paris
A GEO agency in Paris to get cited by AI and rank well on Google?
Oli-via-net is a GEO and SEO agency serving businesses in Paris. In organic search as in AI SEO, we work to get Google’s AI Mode, Gemini and ChatGPT to recommend your business, and to win your website the top places on Google in Paris, from your arrondissement to the whole Île-de-France region. We work with Paris shops and SMEs as well as large corporations and industrial groups, with a GEO strategy designed on a national or international scale.
- Presence in Google’s AI Mode, Gemini and ChatGPT
- Top places on Google through organic search and your Google Business Profile
- Google Ads campaigns run by a certified Google Ads expert
- From €490 excl. VAT per month, we work throughout France
Who do AI tools recommend in Paris in your line of business?
Your future customers in Paris are already asking AI. Select your trade and see who Google’s AI Mode, Gemini, ChatGPT and five other AI tools recommend.
≈ 978 000
Paris residents already use one
Oli-via-net estimate, i.e. 53% of people aged 15 and over
See the method
Calculation: the population of Paris aged 15 and over by age (INSEE 2023) multiplied by the rate of generative AI use at each age (Baromètre du numérique 2026, CREDOC for Arcep), rounded to the nearest thousand.
Test whether an AI cites you in Paris
“Which … would you recommend in Paris?”
The button opens the AI tool you choose with the question already typed in. You see who it recommends, and no data passes through Oli-via-net.
A question about your GEO project?
A GEO agency in Paris that got a head start
We have been working with machine learning since 2013, back when the models that would become today’s AI still had to be trained. The arrival of generative AI led us to formalise a long-term approach, the GAIA method, on which every one of our GEO assignments is based. Read our story.
Generative. Short, self-contained answers with their figures and sources, which AI can reuse without distorting them.
Authority. Identical information across the web and favourable reviews, wherever AI checks who you are.
Information. Content only you can provide, projects, figures, dated observations, and therefore unique sources for AI.
Agents. A website open to AI crawlers and readable by the agents that will book and buy on your customers’ behalf.
AI agents are already part of everyday use. In its AI Mode, Google lets you book a restaurant table 1, and Muse, the agent Meta unveiled in September 2026, books flights and hotels. Preparing your website for these agents means preparing for the way your customers will buy tomorrow.
Some examples of our GEO agency’s results
Verifiable results, not promises
GEO is a young discipline that appeared with generative AI and took shape in 2025, and we practise it according to the GAIA method. Its foundation, SEO, has been the profession of Oli-via-net’s founder, Nicolas Peter, since 2001, first as a freelancer and then at the head of the agency founded in 2016. More than 200 projects have followed. Here are some dated, verifiable results, including citations by Google’s AI.
- 2001first websites optimised for search
- 2016Oli-via-net founded
- 200+projects delivered
- 6Google Ads certifications
They entrusted us with their visibility
Google AI Mode
Our clients cited by Google’s AI
An AI never cites ten names, only two or three. Here are real answers from Google’s AI Mode in which our clients appear.
Question asked in AI Mode“What is the best French brand of anti-theft backpacks?”
Question asked in AI Mode“Which company should I choose to renovate my bathroom in Paris?”
Question asked in AI Mode“Which tree surgeon should I choose in the Yvelines?”
Question asked in AI Mode“Which gift box should I give clients or employees in Paris?”
Question asked in AI Mode“renovation company Yvelines”
Question asked in AI Mode“insulation company Yvelines”
Question asked in AI Mode“carpenter roofer Yvelines”
SEO
And in Google’s classic results (SEO)
E-commerce, GEO and Google Ads
Arsayo, anti-theft backpacks
Shopify rebuild, SEO, Merchant Center and conversion tracking. Arsayo is cited among ChatGPT’s first results for “What is the best French brand of anti-theft backpacks?” and ranks 1st on Google for “sac à dos sécurisé” (anti-theft backpack, 12 October 2026).
Renovation, local SEO and GEO
Les Bains et Cuisines d’Alexandre, Paris
Content about completed projects, internal linking across four themes (bathroom, kitchen, flat, offices), Google Business Profile and review monitoring. The company ranks 1st on Google for “rénovation de salle de bain paris” (bathroom renovation Paris), and both ChatGPT and Google AI Mode cite it among Parisian renovation firms.
Google reviews
What our clients say
★★★★★
“Having spoken with a number of Google Maps specialists who had not convinced me, I was lucky enough to come across Nicolas. His direct, measured, rational and concise approach won me over. The free audit made me aware of where I stood in the Google universe. My only regret is not having met him sooner.”
★★★★★
“I contacted Nicolas for help with an online reputation case involving a Google review. He took the time to study my case in detail and to look for different solutions suited to my situation. I recommend him without hesitation.”
★★★★★
“We called on Nicolas to restore our Google Business Profile. As soon as we had called him, he looked into our case. We recommend Nicolas very warmly, and of course we will keep working with him.”
★★★★★
“Sound advice, very competent and always available! I also really appreciated his expertise in SEO and automation, which helped me gain visibility and efficiency.”
★★★★★
“I am delighted that I entrusted the redesign of my website to Oli-via-net. It is a very professional agency that adapted to my business and to the size of my company. I recommend them.”
★★★★★
“I called on Nicolas to build a website for my company from A to Z, and I am very pleased with the result. Nicolas listens and very quickly understood what I expected. I highly recommend him.”
Did you know?
Our GEO agency in Paris shares a few success stories
L’Oréal was born in Paris
In 1909, the chemist Eugène Schueller founded in Paris the company that would become L’Oréal, now the world’s leading cosmetics group. 1
The Eiffel Tower was meant to be taken down
Built for the 1889 World’s Fair, the Eiffel Tower had a permit for only twenty years. The wireless telegraphy experiments carried out at its top saved it from being dismantled. 1
Hermès, a Paris saddler since 1837
Thierry Hermès opened his harness workshop in Paris in 1837. The house has become one of the great names in world luxury and is still run from the capital. 1
The metro was born for an exhibition
The first line of the Paris metro, between Porte de Vincennes and Porte Maillot, opened on 19 July 1900, during the World’s Fair. 1
The first modern department store
In the mid-19th century, Aristide Boucicaut turned Le Bon Marché, on the Left Bank, into a department store. Displayed prices, free entry, mail-order sales, he invented modern retail. 1
A start-up campus in a former railway hall
Station F opened in 2017 in the Halle Freyssinet, a former railway building in the 13th arrondissement, to host thousands of entrepreneurs. 1
What if the next success story in Paris were yours?
Twenty arrondissements, as many customer bases
Paris has 2,103,778 inhabitants over 105 km², or nearly 19,970 inhabitants per square kilometre. Both a city and a département, it is the heart of the Métropole du Grand Paris, home to 7,115,576 people, and of an urban area of 11,013,774 inhabitants. Twenty arrondissements make up the city, and each has its own shopping streets, customers and search habits.
2 103 778
inhabitants in 2023
−6.1% since 2012, France +4.4%
41 years
average age of inhabitants
France 42 years, calculated from INSEE age bands
33 650 €
median annual standard of living
France €25,920
56,9
businesses created per 1,000 inhabitants in 2025
France 17.0
51 %
of workers are managers or professionals
France 20%
70,5 %
of 15 to 64-year-olds are in work
France 67.4%
41,6
hotel rooms per 1,000 inhabitants
France 9.8
61 %
commute by public transport
France 16%
More about Paris
Around ten million foreign visitors come every year. A Paris business owner therefore speaks to three audiences, Parisians, people living in the wider metropolitan area and travellers searching in their own language. Being recommended by AI is played out at several levels, from the neighbourhood to searches made from abroad.
The metro has had sixteen lines since 2017, complemented by five RER lines, around fifteen Transilien lines and an almost circular tramway, lines T3a and T3b. Six major stations, Austerlitz, Est, Gare de Lyon, Montparnasse, Nord and Saint-Lazare, connect the capital to every city in France and to neighbouring countries. Walking accounts for 40% of daily journeys and the car for 13%.
Most of France’s grandes écoles are in Paris and its urban area, and the Paris-Saclay campus is an international research hub. For a business, that means students as customers and recruiters everywhere, but also very dense competition in every neighbourhood.
INSEE data, 2023 census, Filosofi and the business register, compared with metropolitan France 1 · 2
Head offices, finance and start-ups in one place
In 2017, the Île-de-France region was home to twenty-seven head offices of Fortune Global 500 companies, more than New York or London. La Défense, in the metropolitan area, is the largest business district in Europe. Paris is home to the head offices of BNP Paribas and AXA, Europe’s leading insurance group, and LVMH is Europe’s largest company by market capitalisation. The Paris financial centre was ranked fifth in the world in 2023.
More about the Paris economy
Alongside the large groups, business services account for a third of establishments in Paris. The business directory lists 11,581 advertising agencies, 27,467 computer programming companies and 99,396 consultancies. Station F, housed in the former Halle Freyssinet, is the largest start-up campus in the world, and the city had around forty incubators in 2016.
Crafts and industry still account for a significant share of jobs, and neighbourhood shops are holding out against the growth of large supermarkets. A Paris independent therefore competes not only with head offices but with their neighbours on the same street.
Sectors and clusters
- Banking, finance and insurance
- Consulting and business services
- Start-ups and digital
- Media and television
- Luxury and retail
- Tourism and hospitality
Major employers
- BNP Paribas, head office in Paris
- AXA, head office in Paris
- LVMH
- Chubb, European head office
- TF1, in Boulogne-Billancourt in the metropolitan area
AI Mode
In Paris, your business stands out for the quality of its follow-up1, alongside two other firms2.
2 · Mention
Sources
How Google’s AI Mode chooses the businesses it cites
Since 22 July 2026, Google has been showing AI Overviews above its results in France, as well as an AI Mode where you have a conversation with the search engine 1. The text displayed is written by the AI, which only draws on a few pages it considers reliable.
- 1Citation. The AI bases its answer on a page of your website and shows the link. This is the strongest form of recognition.
- 2Mention. Without a link, the AI simply writes your business’s name, which the customer remembers.
- 3Business profile. The answer also shows your Google Business Profile and your reviews, at a glance.
When an AI overview is shown, a click on a classic link happens in only 8% of visits, compared with 15% when there is none 1. Being included in the overview now counts as much as a good ranking.
From audit to follow-up, our work in Paris
Five steps, from the first check to monthly follow-up
No two assignments are alike. We start from your trade, your competitors in Paris and what AI already says about you. Some steps always come back, others depend on your situation.
- 1
AI visibility audit
We start with a dated check. Your customers’ questions in Paris are put to Google’s AI Mode, Gemini, ChatGPT and other AI tools, and we record the businesses cited along with their sources.
- 2
Technical foundations
A website that AI crawlers can read effortlessly, with structured data, fast pages, an llms.txt file and business information that is consistent everywhere.
- 3
Citable content
Content designed to be picked up by AI, with short answers to your Paris customers’ questions, a byline, proof, figures and projects, in line with E-E-A-T criteria.
- 4
Local authority
Reviews, directories, articles and links from Paris partners, your business’s reputation is also built away from your website. AI consults these sources before recommending anyone.
- 5
Dated monthly follow-up
A check every month, same questions, same AI tools. We archive the answers, count the citations and measure the visits coming from AI, then adjust the plan.
What is E-E-A-T?
- Experience
- Expertise
- Authoritativeness
- Trustworthiness
Behind these letters, Google asks whether the business has proven itself in the field, whether it knows its subject, whether others recognise it and whether it can be trusted.
Why AI has made it essential
An AI checks before it cites. It cross-references your website, your Google profile, your reviews, directories, the press, LinkedIn and official registers, and checks the manager, how long the business has existed and its qualifications. A piece of information that varies from one source to another is enough to make it hesitate.
What this changes for you
For you, online reputation becomes an ongoing task. Recent reviews and careful replies, up-to-date information everywhere, a visible manager, certifications on display. AI is sensitive to all this, and we build it into every assignment.
Competition played out street by street
In Paris, the query is almost never “lawyer” but “tax lawyer in the 8th” or “restaurant open on Sunday near Bastille”. Since 40% of journeys are made on foot, customers choose somewhere close by, from their phone. Your Google Business Profile, your recent reviews and the accuracy of your address decide whether an AI assistant cites you or the business next door.
What people type into Google in Paris
230,760 searches a month
25 common trades searched with the city’s name, as a monthly average over twelve months.
Most searched. “restaurant paris” (90,500), “serrurier paris” (locksmith, 22,200), “coiffeur paris” (hairdresser, 22,200), “agence immobilière paris” (estate agency, 14,800), “hôtel paris” (12,100).
Google Ads, Keyword Planner, September 2025 to August 2026 1
Your GEO agency in Paris, how we support you
- Content that ChatGPT and AI Mode can cite (GEO agency)
- A website and a Google profile that rank well (SEO)
- Reviews managed and careful replies (online reputation)
- Google Ads campaigns run by a certified Google Ads expert
GEO support
€490 excl. VAT per month
Starting price. The final amount depends on the number of pages, the competition in your trade and the levers chosen. A precise quote after the free audit.
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Your questions, in Paris
Should I target “Paris” or my arrondissement?
Both, but not with the same pages. A shop is worked first on its neighbourhood and its arrondissement, a consultancy on its sector and its business districts. We measure what your customers search for before choosing, then track progress month after month.
My start-up is hosted at Station F. Is that an asset for my visibility?
A campus address is not enough to get you cited. Google and AI assistants rely on your website, your offer pages and external mentions. We describe your product, your use cases and your proof in a way they can pick up. No place is guaranteed, but the work can be measured.
How does follow-up work for a Paris business?
Follow-up is by video call and monthly report, and we come to your premises when an on-site meeting is useful. Prices start at €490 excl. VAT per month.
My head office is in Paris but my customers are all over France. Is local SEO useful to me?
Yes, for your brand and for your trade. People often look for a provider by speciality, not by city. We work on your expertise pages and your Google profile, then check how AI assistants present your business when they are asked.
Getting support in Paris
- CCI Paris Île-de-FranceThe chamber of commerce supports businesses in the region with start-up, growth, training and international development, and follows the region’s trade fairs.
- CMA Région Île-de-FranceThe chamber of trades advises craft businesses in the region on registration, training and developing their activity.
- Paris&CoThis innovation agency for Paris and the metropolitan area accelerates impact projects with businesses and start-ups.
- Station FThis start-up campus, housed in the former Halle Freyssinet, runs support programmes and connects founders with large groups.
- La French TechThe national label brings French start-ups together and shares their news and support schemes.
- VivaTechnologyThis annual show for start-ups and large groups is a meeting place for digital businesses.
Oli-via-net, GEO agency in Paris
Your GEO project in Paris starts with a call
We work throughout France. A fifteen-minute conversation is enough to know where you stand in Google and in AI, and where to start.
Oli-via-net holds office hours by appointment in Paris, at La Cordée Paris – Gare de Lyon, 61 rue Traversière, 75012 Paris, France.
Our estimate applies the rates of generative AI use by age, published in the Baromètre du numérique 2026 (CREDOC for Arcep, survey of June 2025), to the population of Paris aged 15 and over (INSEE, 2023 census). The result is rounded to the nearest thousand, and the average age comes from INSEE age bands.