AEO (answer engine optimization)
Work that makes content more likely to be retrieved, interpreted correctly and cited by answer engines. The work is structural: answers, evidence, entities and dates, which is a wider job than chasing rankings.
In use
Used on this site only where the mechanism is specified. Nobody controls placement inside AI answers. AEO describes influence on retrievability and citation-worthiness.
Examples: Answer-first page openings, Sourced, dated claims, Consistent entity definitions.
Related terms
- Answer engineA system that composes a direct response to a question from retrieved and interpreted sources, rather than returning a ranked list of links.
- Answer-engine visibilityThe observable presence of a business in machine-composed answers: citations, mentions and links inside AI Overviews, assistant responses and similar surfaces.
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