Course record, checked 2026-09-16
Certified Generative Engine Optimization Professional: AI SEO course record
Certified Generative Engine Optimization Professional is a self-paced AI SEO program from GSDC (Global Skill Development Council), priced at $400 one-time as of September 16, 2026. Its public curriculum names GEO, teaches LLM citation training and teaches AI visibility measurement.
- Provider
- GSDC (Global Skill Development Council)
- Instructor
- Maxim Salnikov, Suvarsha Rai, Swathi Adimulam and six other listed experts
- Price
- $400 one-time. $400 single access (listed as reduced from $800); $600 bundle of 3 programs Provider-stated
- Format
- Self-paced: Self-paced expert-led videos plus a certification exam with one free retake
- Level
- Not stated
- Modules
- 7
- Update model
- Not stated
- Names ChatGPT
- No
- Status
- Live
- Official page
- https://www.gsdcouncil.org/generative-engine-optimization-certification
- Checked
- September 16, 2026 Observed
What Certified Generative Engine Optimization Professional teaches
| Attribute | Recorded | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| GEO | Yes | public curriculum explicitly names Generative Engine Optimization or generative search visibility |
| AEO | No | public curriculum explicitly names Answer Engine Optimization |
| LLM citation training | Yes | public curriculum explicitly teaches earning, influencing or measuring citations, mentions or recommendations inside AI-generated answers |
| Entity SEO | Yes | public curriculum explicitly names entities, entity optimization or knowledge graphs |
| AI visibility measurement | Yes | public curriculum explicitly teaches measuring or tracking AI visibility, mentions, citations, share of answer or prompts |
| Traditional SEO | Unverified | public curriculum also covers conventional SEO (keyword research, on-page, technical, links) |
| Link and mention acquisition | No | public curriculum covers link or mention acquisition |
| Community | No | |
| Live support | No | |
| Certificate | Yes |
Evidence for this record
The syllabus has seven sections including GEO foundations and AI search architecture, technical GEO and data structuring (JSON-LD, E-E-A-T), and a measuring-success section covering share-of-model visibility tracking and citation frequency metrics. Brand entity recognition in knowledge graphs is listed. AEO, ChatGPT, backlinks and community are not mentioned on the page.
Paraphrased from the public page on September 16, 2026. Yes means the provider's page names the subject; No means the page describes the curriculum without naming it; Unverified means the page does not describe the curriculum in enough detail to say.
How this record is used
This record is one of 27 in the AI SEO course data. It contributes to the GEO, AEO, citation, measurement, pricing and format findings only where its value is Yes or No; Unverified values are excluded from that denominator. See the study's the AI SEO course data for the aggregate figures.
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