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# Which German SEO agencies AI recommends in 2026, and where it gets that from
Source: https://crunchjunkie.io/blog/german-seo-agencies-ai-recommendations-2026
Published: 2026-09-19 · Updated: 2026-10-19 · By Philipp Enders · AI visibility · 9 min read

Ask ChatGPT which SEO agency in Germany it would recommend, and the answer usually starts the same way. There is no single best agency, it says. It depends on your business, your shop system and your budget. Then it names a handful anyway. We wanted to know which ones, and what the engines read before they decide. So we put ten questions a German buyer would ask to four AI engines. Then we counted which of 109 German SEO agencies the answers named.

## The short version
Updated on 19 October 2026. Until 7 October, an output limit in our scanner cut Gemini's answers short. A cut answer names fewer agencies than the full one would. We fixed the limit on 7 October. The October figures on this page come from the two scans after the fix, on 11 and 19 October 2026: 99 answers from four engines. That is two days of answers instead of nine, so the margins are wider than in September. For the leading agencies they are about ±9 percentage points, against ±3 then. Google's AI Overviews count from 11 October only, because our capture lost their lists on 19 October. The leading group now has six agencies instead of three. Seokratie stays in it; Peak Ace is no longer in either group. The September figures remain available as a [CSV file](https://crunchjunkie.io/blog/data/seo-agenturen-ki-2026-09.csv).

Six agencies lead. Claneo was named in 36 of 99 answers. Online Solutions Group, Suchhelden, Seokratie and Aufgesang were named in 26 to 30, HECHT INS GEFECHT in 21. Their margins of error overlap with Claneo's, so the six form one group without a fixed order.

Most agencies on our list were not named at all: 66 of 109. The four engines disagree on who comes first. And the websites they cite most are review platforms and agencies writing about agencies. The method is the one we used for [GEO agencies in the US](https://crunchjunkie.io/blog/best-geo-agencies).

## Which SEO agency is recommended for your question
The overall table further down rewards agencies that come up on broad questions. Buyers often ask narrower ones. So here are the agencies named most for each of the ten questions. Each question got ten answers, the last one nine. That is not many, so read a row as a pointer, not a verdict.

A few rows are clear anyway. Asked for SEO with content marketing, nine of ten answers named Claneo. Asked for SEO and Google Ads from one team, seven of ten named SUMAX. Asked how to find a reputable agency, no answer named an agency at all. The engines gave a checklist instead.

| If you ask… | Named most | Then | Then |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Which SEO agencies in Germany are recommended? | Claneo (9 of 10) | Aufgesang and HECHT INS GEFECHT (8 of 10 each) | Seokratie and Suchhelden (7 of 10 each) |
| Which SEO agency helps with better Google rankings and visibility? | Suchhelden (6 of 10) | Claneo and HECHT INS GEFECHT (5 of 10 each) | Bloofusion and Online Solutions Group (3 of 10 each) |
| Top SEO agencies for mid-sized companies (Mittelstand) | Aufgesang, Suchhelden and TRYSEO (6 of 10 each) | Claneo and Online Solutions Group (5 of 10 each) | Bloofusion and SEO-Küche (4 of 10 each) |
| Best SEO agency for small and medium-sized businesses | Aufgesang, Online Solutions Group and Seokratie (5 of 10 each) | SEO-Küche and Suchhelden (4 of 10 each) | HECHT INS GEFECHT (3 of 10) |
| SEO agency with B2B experience | Claneo (3 of 10) | — | — |
| Which SEO agency suits online shops? | Claneo (5 of 10) | HECHT INS GEFECHT, Peak Ace and Position One (3 of 10 each) | — |
| Which SEO agency also does content marketing? | Claneo (9 of 10) | Online Solutions Group (5 of 10) | Seokratie (4 of 10) |
| Which agency does SEO and Google Ads from one source? | SUMAX (7 of 10) | eology and Seokratie (3 of 10 each) | — |
| An SEO agency with transparent prices | Online Solutions Group (5 of 10) | Evergreen Media (3 of 10) | — |
| How do I find a reputable SEO agency? | No agency in 9 answers | — | — |

Agencies from our list named in at least three of the ten answers to each question (nine for the last one), grouped by count, 11 and 19 October 2026. The questions were asked in German; the English wording here is a translation.

## The overall picture: six agencies ahead, then a long tail
Claneo was named in 36 of 99 answers, a little more than one in three. Five agencies follow with 21 to 30 namings each. With 99 answers, each of these counts has a wide margin of error. All five margins overlap with Claneo's. So this is a leading group of six, and the order inside it is open.

The line under the group is thin. Bloofusion and SEO-Küche, with 17 namings each, miss it by less than two percentage points. TRYSEO and SUMAX follow. After them, no agency was named more than nine times.

The bigger finding sits at the other end. 66 of the 109 agencies were not named once. Another 26 were named one to five times. The ten most-named agencies took 228 of all 334 namings, or 68%. In September, with 713 answers, 46 agencies went unnamed. With 99 answers an agency has far fewer chances to come up, so the two counts do not compare directly.

| Agency | Named | Share (range) | ChatGPT | Gemini | Perplexity | Overviews |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| Claneo | 36 | 36.4% (27.6–46.2) | 12 | 11 | 10 | 3 |
| Online Solutions Group | 30 | 30.3% (22.1–40.0) | 8 | 14 | 8 | 0 |
| Suchhelden | 29 | 29.3% (21.2–38.9) | 7 | 16 | 3 | 3 |
| Seokratie | 28 | 28.3% (20.4–37.8) | 7 | 19 | 0 | 2 |
| Aufgesang | 26 | 26.3% (18.6–35.7) | 5 | 14 | 2 | 5 |
| HECHT INS GEFECHT | 21 | 21.2% (14.3–30.3) | 8 | 8 | 4 | 1 |
| Bloofusion | 17 | 17.2% (11.0–25.8) | 10 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| SEO-Küche | 17 | 17.2% (11.0–25.8) | 5 | 6 | 5 | 1 |
| TRYSEO | 14 | 14.1% (8.6–22.3) | 3 | 6 | 5 | 0 |
| SUMAX | 10 | 10.1% (5.6–17.6) | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 |

The leading group (the first six) and the second group (the next four) of 109 German SEO agencies. Named = answers that named the agency, out of 99 AI answers on 11 and 19 October 2026: ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity 30 each, Google AI Overviews 9 (11 October only). Overviews = Google AI Overviews. The range is a 95% Wilson interval; where two ranges overlap, the order between them is not established.

## What moved since September
The September edition rested on 713 answers. Its leading group had three agencies: Claneo, Aufgesang and Seokratie. All three are in the group again, at shares close to September's. Claneo was named in 36.4% of the answers (31.7% in September), Seokratie in 28.3% (26.2%) and Aufgesang in 26.3% (28.2%). Their ranges overlap with September's.

Three agencies joined them. Online Solutions Group, Suchhelden and HECHT INS GEFECHT were named in 15.0%, 15.1% and 6.0% of the September answers. Now it is 30.3%, 29.3% and 21.2%. None of the three ranges overlaps with its September range any more. For Suchhelden the gap between the two ranges is narrow, and the ranges treat every answer as independent, so that rise is the least certain of the three. Peak Ace went the other way, from 15.1% to 8.1%. Its two ranges still overlap, so that drop is not established.

This page does not say why anything moved. Between the two editions, Gemini's answers went from cut to complete, ChatGPT and Perplexity moved to newer models, and the sample shrank from nine days to two.

Within October, the first scan alone had the same six agencies in its leading group. Single counts move more from scan to scan. HECHT INS GEFECHT was named in 18 of 69 answers on 11 October and in 3 of 30 on 19 October. SEO-Küche went the other way, from 6 of 69 to 11 of 30. One scan of 30 answers is too small to call either a trend.

## The engines disagree, and that is the finding
Each engine has its own favourites. ChatGPT named Claneo most often, in 12 of 30 answers. Perplexity also put Claneo first, with 10 of 30. Gemini named Seokratie in 19 of its 30 answers. Google's AI Overviews named Aufgesang most, in 5 of 9.

Seokratie shows how much one engine can decide. 19 of its 28 namings came from Gemini. Perplexity did not name it once in 30 answers.

The engines also name very different numbers of agencies. A Gemini answer named almost five agencies from our list on average. A Perplexity answer named fewer than two, and 7 of its 30 answers named none of them.

For a buyer, one engine's shortlist is one opinion. For an agency, visibility in AI is four separate results. We have looked at the reasons in [why AI engines disagree about your brand](https://crunchjunkie.io/blog/why-ai-engines-disagree-about-your-brand).

## Where the engines get it from
The 99 answers cited more than 250 different websites. The most cited are OMR Reviews, mostly its pages on SEO agencies, and onlinesolutionsgroup.de, the website of Online Solutions Group. Each was cited in 40 answers. Online Solutions Group has a second website near the top: seoagentur.de, cited in 30.

Being cited is not the same as being named. Perplexity cited seoagentur.de in 25 of its 30 answers but named Online Solutions Group in 8. DREIKON's website was cited in 31 answers. Perplexity mostly cited its page about the best SEO agencies. DREIKON itself was named in six answers. We have written about that gap in [cited is not named](https://crunchjunkie.io/blog/cited-isnt-named-ai-search).

Lists that agencies write about agencies are still a big source. HECHT INS GEFECHT publishes its own ranking of the ten best SEO agencies in Germany and puts itself first. Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews cited that page, and Gemini cited hechtinsgefecht.de in 17 of its 30 answers. Gemini names websites, not pages. Suchhelden's own list of 31 SEO agencies, which Perplexity cited in three answers, starts with Suchhelden. The page says the list is not sorted by quality. SEO-Küche's own ranking of the ten best GEO and SEO agencies in Germany also puts SEO-Küche first. In September the most-cited list came from another agency. The pattern has not changed.

ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity also show [the web searches they run before answering](https://crunchjunkie.io/blog/query-fanouts-the-searches-ai-runs). 86 of their 90 answers came with searches, 263 different ones. The words they added most often were Leistungen (services), KMU (small business), Referenzen and Bewertungen (reviews). OMR appeared in 16 searches and Clutch in 14. The engines look for proof: what an agency does, who it worked for and what clients say. Nobody publishes search volumes for these queries, and we do not estimate any.

| Source | Cited in | What it is |
| --- | ---: | --- |
| omr.com | 40 of 99 | OMR Reviews: review platform, mostly its SEO agency pages |
| onlinesolutionsgroup.de | 40 of 99 | Online Solutions Group's website |
| dreikon.de | 31 of 99 | DREIKON's website; for Perplexity mostly its article on the best SEO agencies |
| seoagentur.de | 30 of 99 | Online Solutions Group's second website |
| sortlist.de | 28 of 99 | Sortlist: agency directory |
| agenturtipp.de | 24 of 99 | Agenturtipp: agency directory with a ranking |
| hechtinsgefecht.de | 23 of 99 | HECHT INS GEFECHT's website, including its own ranking of the ten best SEO agencies |
| ucentric-media.de | 21 of 99 | An online marketing agency's website |
| suchhelden.de | 20 of 99 | Suchhelden's website, including its own list of 31 SEO agencies |
| seo-kueche.de | 19 of 99 | SEO-Küche's website, including its own ranking of GEO and SEO agencies, which puts SEO-Küche first |
| seoagents.de | 19 of 99 | The website of SEO Agents, an agency outside our list |

The eleven most-cited websites: how many of the 99 answers cited the site at least once, 11 and 19 October 2026. Gemini names websites, not pages. More than 250 websites were cited in total.

## What this measurement cannot tell you
It counts what four engines said on two days. It does not measure the quality of anybody's work. An agency that is never named may be excellent.

Two days are a small sample. 99 answers are enough to set the leading six apart from the long tail. They are not enough to put the six in order. Later scans will narrow the margins, and we will update this page.

Google's AI Overviews are the thinnest part. They count from 11 October only, with 9 answers. On 19 October our capture lost the lists in seven of ten overviews. So we left that day's overviews out instead of counting them as answers that name nobody. One overview of 11 October came back empty and is left out as well.

The models behind the engines change, too. ChatGPT and Perplexity have answered with newer models since late September. Both October scans used the same models.

The tables cover the 109 agencies on our list. The engines named others, among them adojo, SEO Agents, Side Boost and Trofy in at least three answers each. Names outside the list are captured less strictly, so these are minimums.

And the questions were asked in German for the German market. The same questions in English produce different answers.

## If you run an agency: what the numbers suggest
Three things follow from the data, and none of them is a trick.

Say clearly what you do. Asked for SEO with content marketing, nine of ten answers named Claneo. Claneo's content marketing page was among the pages ChatGPT cited. A page that answers the question directly is easy to match.

Be present where the engines read. For these questions that means OMR Reviews, Sortlist, Agenturtipp and Clutch. Like it or not, it also means the best-of lists that other agencies publish.

Publish the proof the engines search for: services, references, reviews, and prices if the buyer asks about prices. On the pricing question, Perplexity recommended Online Solutions Group in both scans and quoted its published package price.

If you want to see what the engines say about your own agency, the [free AI visibility check](https://crunchjunkie.io/ai-visibility-check) shows it in about a minute. We will repeat the measurement at this address.

## The full list: every agency that was named
The table further up shows the two groups. Here are all 43 agencies that were named at least once, in the same format. The data for all 109 agencies is also available as a [CSV file](https://crunchjunkie.io/blog/data/seo-agenturen-ki-2026.csv), published under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Use it freely, credit CrunchJunkie and link to this page as the source.

| Agency | Named | Share (range) | ChatGPT | Gemini | Perplexity | Overviews |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| Claneo | 36 | 36.4% (27.6–46.2) | 12 | 11 | 10 | 3 |
| Online Solutions Group | 30 | 30.3% (22.1–40.0) | 8 | 14 | 8 | 0 |
| Suchhelden | 29 | 29.3% (21.2–38.9) | 7 | 16 | 3 | 3 |
| Seokratie | 28 | 28.3% (20.4–37.8) | 7 | 19 | 0 | 2 |
| Aufgesang | 26 | 26.3% (18.6–35.7) | 5 | 14 | 2 | 5 |
| HECHT INS GEFECHT | 21 | 21.2% (14.3–30.3) | 8 | 8 | 4 | 1 |
| Bloofusion | 17 | 17.2% (11.0–25.8) | 10 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| SEO-Küche | 17 | 17.2% (11.0–25.8) | 5 | 6 | 5 | 1 |
| TRYSEO | 14 | 14.1% (8.6–22.3) | 3 | 6 | 5 | 0 |
| SUMAX | 10 | 10.1% (5.6–17.6) | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| eology | 9 | 9.1% (4.9–16.4) | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Evergreen Media | 8 | 8.1% (4.2–15.1) | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 |
| experics | 8 | 8.1% (4.2–15.1) | 3 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| morefire | 8 | 8.1% (4.2–15.1) | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 |
| Peak Ace | 8 | 8.1% (4.2–15.1) | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| suxeedo | 7 | 7.1% (3.5–13.9) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| DREIKON | 6 | 6.1% (2.8–12.6) | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| adMates | 5 | 5.1% (2.2–11.3) | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| Netzbekannt | 5 | 5.1% (2.2–11.3) | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| xpose360 | 5 | 5.1% (2.2–11.3) | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Optimerch | 4 | 4.0% (1.6–9.9) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| clicks digital | 3 | 3.0% (1.0–8.5) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Löwenstark | 3 | 3.0% (1.0–8.5) | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Onlinemarketing-Strategen | 3 | 3.0% (1.0–8.5) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Position One | 3 | 3.0% (1.0–8.5) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Hanseranking | 2 | 2.0% (0.6–7.1) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Web-Mastery | 2 | 2.0% (0.6–7.1) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Wolf of SEO | 2 | 2.0% (0.6–7.1) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| ABAKUS | 1 | 1.0% (0.2–5.5) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| ADVIDERA | 1 | 1.0% (0.2–5.5) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| arboro | 1 | 1.0% (0.2–5.5) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Drela | 1 | 1.0% (0.2–5.5) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| dskom | 1 | 1.0% (0.2–5.5) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Eberle Consulting SEO Agentur | 1 | 1.0% (0.2–5.5) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Fairrank | 1 | 1.0% (0.2–5.5) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| heise regioconcept | 1 | 1.0% (0.2–5.5) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| JSH Marketing | 1 | 1.0% (0.2–5.5) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| rankeffect | 1 | 1.0% (0.2–5.5) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Seofaktum | 1 | 1.0% (0.2–5.5) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| SeoGuideline | 1 | 1.0% (0.2–5.5) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| seomaxx | 1 | 1.0% (0.2–5.5) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Webgeist GmbH | 1 | 1.0% (0.2–5.5) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Wingmen Online Marketing | 1 | 1.0% (0.2–5.5) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

All 43 of the 109 tracked agencies that were named at least once, sorted by namings; alphabetical where the count is equal. Named = answers out of 99 (11 and 19 October 2026). Per engine: ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity out of 30 each, Overviews (Google AI Overviews, 11 October only) out of 9. Range = 95% Wilson interval.

## Tracked, but not named in 99 answers
These 66 agencies were on the list, and none of the 99 answers named them. That says nothing about their work. It says that four engines did not bring them up for these ten questions on 11 and 19 October.

42DIGITAL, ARISE Online Marketing, Baseplus, Bits & Passion, Bytebizz, CAMEDIA, CreativeConsult.de, cyberpromote, Die Linkagentur, Die SEO-Firma, Digital Nativ, Digitaleffects, Dirk Schiff, ditegra, DIXENO, effektor, eMinded, Exportarts, Farbentour, felixlitsch.de, G38, get traction, IMA Marketing & Consulting, internetwarriors, ithelps, Kim Labs, KlickPiloten, KOCH ESSEN, LA Click, luna-park, marmato, Matthias Klenk, mindshape, move elevator, Nabenhauer Consulting, NETPROFIT, netspirits, njoy online marketing, No-black-box-seo, Noah Lutz, Online Marketing Solutions, Online-Profession, PerformanceLiebe, RegioHelden, Schoch & Friends, Semotion, SEO Agentur Hamburg, SEO Beratung KMU, SEO Monkey, SEO NW, SEO Revolution, seoCon, seooffensive, SEOPT, SEYBOLD ONE, Sumasearch, SUNZINET, takevalue, V4 Visions, Veriseo, VISIO.7, Waldhirsch, wambo, web-netz, Webgalaxie, Webneo.

### FAQ
**Which German SEO agency does ChatGPT recommend most often?**
In our measurement on 11 and 19 October 2026, ChatGPT named Claneo in 12 of 30 answers to ten German buyer questions. Bloofusion followed with 10, then HECHT INS GEFECHT and Online Solutions Group with 8 each. ChatGPT often starts by saying that no single best agency exists.

**Do Google AI Overviews recommend the same SEO agencies as ChatGPT?**
Not quite. In 9 Google AI Overviews on 11 October 2026, Aufgesang was named most often (5 times), then Claneo, Suchhelden and SUMAX (3 each). ChatGPT named Claneo most. Across the four engines we measured there were three different leaders: Claneo for ChatGPT and Perplexity, Seokratie for Gemini and Aufgesang for Google AI Overviews.

**Where does AI get its SEO agency recommendations from?**
From the pages it cites. In 99 answers on 11 and 19 October 2026 the most-cited websites were OMR Reviews and onlinesolutionsgroup.de (40 answers each), followed by dreikon.de (31) and seoagentur.de (30). Several of the most-cited sites are lists of the best agencies written by agencies, and at least three of them put the publishing agency first.

**Is an SEO agency that AI names often a better agency?**
Not necessarily. The count shows how often four AI engines named an agency, which depends on what the pages they read say about it. It says nothing about the quality of the work. 66 of the 109 agencies we tracked were not named in 99 answers on 11 and 19 October 2026, and some of them may be very good.

**How many German SEO agencies does AI never mention?**
On 11 and 19 October 2026, 66 of 109 tracked agencies were not named in any of 99 answers, and another 26 were named one to five times. The ten most-named agencies took 68.3% of all namings. In September, with 713 answers, 46 agencies went unnamed.

### Methodology & data
Ten German-language buyer questions, asked of ChatGPT (with search), Gemini (with Google Search grounding), Perplexity and Google AI Overviews, market Germany. Window: 8 to 19 October 2026, the days after the fix to Gemini's answers. After 11 October the questions moved from every four days to a weekly scan, so the window holds two scans: 11 October, with each question asked twice per engine, and 19 October, with each question asked once. Unit: one distinct answer. ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity gave 30 answers each, 20 on 11 October and 10 on 19 October. Google AI Overviews were checked 20 times on 11 October; each second check returned the same overview as the first for the same question, and a repeat counts once, which leaves 10. One of them was empty and is left out: its content is unknown, so it does not count as an answer that names nobody. The 10 overviews of 19 October are left out too: in 7 of them the stored text introduces a list of agencies and stops, because our capture lost the list items. Total: 99 answers per agency, 10 per question (9 for the question about finding a reputable agency). An agency counts as named when the answer names it in the text; a citation without the name does not count, because [cited is not named](https://crunchjunkie.io/blog/cited-isnt-named-ai-search). We read every answer against the namings CrunchJunkie recorded and made 9 corrections. 11 October (226 namings checked, 224 correct): an answer naming Suchmaschinenmakler had been counted for Suchhelden, and one naming norisk Group for Löwenstark; Hecht ins Gefecht, not written in capitals, seoagentur.de / OSG for Online Solutions Group (the site's legal notice names Online Solutions Group GmbH) and Eberle Consulting for Eberle Consulting SEO Agentur had been missed. 19 October (110 namings checked, 109 correct): an answer naming Think11 had been counted for seoCon, and OM-Strategen had been missed in one ChatGPT and one Perplexity answer. OM-Strategen is the short name of Onlinemarketing-Strategen, whose legal notice uses both names, so the same short name in one ChatGPT answer of 11 October now counts as well. The names we re-checked in September because they could read as ordinary words (among them Aufgesang, Online Solutions Group, Evergreen Media, SUMAX and Position One) were all genuine namings here. An agency's share is the number of answers naming it divided by 99; counts are added up over both scans and all engines first and divided once. The range is a 95% Wilson interval; it treats answers as independent, so close calls deserve caution. The leading group is every agency whose range overlaps the range of the most-named agency. The second group is every other agency named in at least one answer in ten, a reading aid rather than a statistical tier. The list of 109 agencies is unchanged since September: the 100 providers on [iBusiness's list of the most important SEO service providers](https://www.ibusiness.de/seo-liste) plus nine agencies added by hand or because the engines kept naming them. Agencies the engines named that are not on the list are not in the tables. Sources are counted per answer from the websites each engine cited, with AI Overview repeats counted once and the left-out overviews not counted. Gemini names websites, not pages, so statements about single pages rest on ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews. Searches are the ones ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity reported; AI Overviews run no separate searches. ChatGPT's and Perplexity's answers come from newer models than in September: Perplexity's since 26 September, ChatGPT's since 30 September. Both October scans used the same models. No agency submitted anything or paid to be included. The measurement project is set up around Suchhelden, which is counted exactly like every other agency. Measured with CrunchJunkie, which we build; the data was read on 19 October 2026, and the underlying answers are available on request. Disclosure: Philipp Enders, who runs CrunchJunkie, is also managing director of Tiki-Taka Media GmbH ([tikitaka.digital](https://tikitaka.digital)), an agency for SEO, GEO and Google Ads. Tiki-Taka was not measured and is not part of this analysis. Editions: first published on 19 September 2026 (633 answers, 12 to 19 September); updated on 21 September (713 answers, 12 to 20 September, with a missing Suchhelden row added); corrected on 13 October (the Gemini note); updated on 19 October 2026 with the two scans after the fix.

Dataset: https://crunchjunkie.io/blog/data/seo-agenturen-ki-2026.csv (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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- [BVDW — SEO-Qualitätszertifikat](https://www.bvdw.org/zertifizierungen/seo/)
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