AEO (Answer Engine Optimization)
AEO, or answer engine optimization, is the practice of structuring content so that AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews cite your business in their responses. It combines definition-first writing, question-phrased headings, structured data, and machine-readable summaries so models can extract and attribute your answers cleanly.
In more detail
Effective AEO relies on server-rendered HTML, schema markup (Article, FAQPage, DefinedTerm), and files like llms.txt that make a site legible to crawlers and answer engines. Definitions and specific statistics are cited disproportionately, which is why glossaries and data-backed posts punch above their weight.
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