How Farbentour took a pharma website from zero to

visibility in AI search.

A German pharma website with no SEO or GEO history whatsoever: invisible in ChatGPT, in Google’s AI Overviews and in classic search. Within a few years, we turned it into a fixture in Google and in AI answers.

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The starting point

Invisible in search & AI

No SEO or GEO measures
Not findable for relevant terms
No visibility in ChatGPT & AI Overviews
Barely any rankings in classic Google Search
Barely any organic traffic
Very low brand awareness
Competitors more present in trade magazines
Fewer & poorer Trustpilot reviews

When the project came to us, there were neither SEO nor GEO measures in place. For the relevant terms in the industry – such as cold symptoms, e-prescription or remedies for colds – the shop was simply nowhere to be found.

The brand appeared neither in ChatGPT nor in Google’s AI Overviews – and in classic Google search, too, there were hardly any rankings and correspondingly little organic traffic.

The reason behind it: very low brand awareness. The competition was considerably more present, was mentioned in major trade magazines and had more – and better – customer reviews on Trustpilot.

This is exactly what the AI systems reflect: they cite what is well-known, linked and well-rated. Anyone who doesn’t appear there simply doesn’t exist for the AI.

Our approach

The GEO & SEO strategy

It started with combined keyword and prompt research. From the real W-questions that people search for on Google, we derived the prompts that users put to ChatGPT & co. in the same way.

We tracked these prompts and analyzed why the competition ranks ahead – the AI itself provides the answer as to which sources it cites and why.

In parallel, we worked on reputation: more and better Trustpilot reviews, targeted building of mentions and of best-of lists in which the client consistently appears in the top 3. Added to this was continuous backlink building, which also boosts classic SEO.

The content core: a great deal of citable content – glossary, guides and landing pages. Prompts as W-questions in H2 tags, with a clear, citable answer directly beneath. Plus the technical basis (Core Web Vitals, LLMs.txt, clean crawlability and indexability) and all the SEO basics.

Keyword & prompt research (derived from W-questions)
Prompt tracking & competitor analysis
More & better Trustpilot reviews + mentions
Building best-of lists – client consistently in the top 3
Backlink building (which also boosts classic SEO)
Citable content: glossary, guides, landing pages
Technical: Core Web Vitals, LLMs.txt, crawlability/indexability
SEO basics: title/meta, H-tags, internal links, sitemap
Monitoring: our own prompt tracker, Sistrix & Ahrefs

Good SEO = good GEO

Those who rank at the top on Google are also cited more often by the AI. Google remains the leading index: position 1 is cited as a source by ChatGPT in 43.2% of cases – 3.5× more often than pages outside the top 20.

Source: AirOps – Influence of Retrieval, Fanout & Google SERPs in ChatGPT

43.2%
of ChatGPT citations come from Google position 1

The result

The results

Zero visibility became a firm presence – in classic Google search as well as in AI answers. In mid-2023, organic traffic was still at 0.

19,300
organic traffic / month (Ahrefs)
5,900
rankings on Google
4,548
prompts with AI visibility (Sistrix)
1,232
mentions in Google AI Mode
Ahrefs: organic traffic – from 0 (mid-2023) to around 19,300 visitors / month (as of July 2026).
Ahrefs: referring domains and organic traffic in tandem – backlink building also boosts classic SEO.
Ahrefs overview: AI answers, backlink profile and organic search – around 5,900 organic keywords and 1.3K mentions in Google AI Mode.

AI visibility according to Sistrix

The client is now found for 4,548 prompts (May/June 2026) – in November 2025 it was just 1,100. An increase of around 313% in a little over six months.

3,136
mentions in Google AI Overviews
1,232
mentions in Google AI Mode
180
mentions in ChatGPT
Sistrix: prompt visibility across Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode & ChatGPT – with a clear upward trend in mentions & citations.

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