Climb Rate SEO
SEO + GEO for flight schools

Win the searches your next student is already running.

Most flight schools show up on page two — for a query their next student typed last night. We fix that on Google, and we fix it inside ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity too.

50+
Aviation-intent keywords
60-day
First ranking wins
AI
Cited in AI Overviews
What the audit covers

Six checks. Every time.

Local map-pack visibility

Where you rank for "flight school + city" — the query that drives 60% of discovery-flight bookings.

Program-page rankings

Part 61, Part 141, GI Bill, accelerated, sport pilot — every program page audited against the queries that bring it traffic.

GEO entity coverage

Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity name you when asked for the best flight schools in your area — and what to fix if they don’t.

Content gaps

The student-intent topics your competitors rank for that you haven’t written yet — checkride prep, medical certificates, financing.

Technical health

Speed, indexability, mobile usability, and structured data — the table-stakes work that quietly tanks rankings when ignored.

Conversion paths

Whether your discovery-flight CTA actually shows up where students land. Most flight school sites bury it.

Why GEO matters now

Half your prospects are asking ChatGPT first.

The 17-year-old who's thinking about flight school doesn't open Google anymore. They ask ChatGPT "what's the best flight school in [their city]" — and the model returns a shortlist of three. If you're not on it, you don't exist for that prospect.

  • Entity-building so AI engines understand who you are and where you fly
  • Structured content the engines can lift directly into AI Overviews
  • Citation work to get you onto the third-party lists ChatGPT pulls from
  • Monthly visibility report across Google, Gemini, ChatGPT, and Perplexity
Recent work

What it looks like 90 days in.

Part 141 + GI Bill

Top-3 for the program-page cluster

Rebuilt the GI Bill program page and supported it with three pillar articles tuned to veteran-pilot intent.

3.4×
Discovery-flight inquiries
Regional CFI school

Cited inside ChatGPT and AI Overviews

Entity work + FAQ schema surfaced the school in ChatGPT shortlists and Google's AI Overviews for the metro.

+182%
Organic sessions
Sport pilot academy

Owned a long-tail nobody was writing

Built the "Light Sport Aircraft training" cluster the bigger schools ignored — captured a high-intent niche.

#1–3
LSA cluster rankings
Free visibility audit

See exactly where you rank, what you're missing, and what we'd fix first.

48-hour turnaround. No credit card. No sales call required.