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Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)

Become the answer AI assistants read back. AEO gets your business named directly in ChatGPT, Google's AI answers, voice assistants, and featured snippets, not buried in a list of links.

What is AEO?

Answer Engine Optimization is the work of getting an engine to quote YOU when someone asks a question. More and more searches never reach a page of blue links: a person asks an assistant, and reads back the single answer it gives.

AEO structures your content so that answer is yours. Clean schema and structured data, answer-first formatting, FAQ markup, and the entity and authority signals engines use to decide who is trustworthy enough to cite. It is a close cousin of GEO, which covers generative results like ChatGPT and Perplexity; most clients run both.

What you get

AI Search Audit

Where you get named as the answer today, and where a competitor gets named instead.

Schema & Structured Data

The machine-readable markup answer engines rely on to quote you accurately.

Answer-First Content

Pages and FAQs written to be extracted cleanly as a direct answer.

Share-of-Voice Reporting

Monthly tracking of how often you are cited, reported apart from traditional rank.

Where to start

Begin with an audit, then move into ongoing optimization with the data in hand. We scope and price each engagement to your site, so book a consult and we will put real numbers to it.

AI Search Readiness Audit

one-time

The low-barrier way in. See exactly where you get cited across AI answers, and where you are missing.

  • AEO + GEO readiness scan
  • Competitor share-of-voice benchmark
  • Prioritized action plan
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Answer Engine Optimization

setup + retainer

Become the cited answer in assistants and snippets, tuned monthly as the engines shift.

  • Structured data + FAQ schema
  • Answer-first content formatting
  • Entity and authority signals

AEO + GEO Bundle

bundle

Run answer-engine and generative optimization together, at a bundle rate, under one report.

  • Everything in AEO and GEO
  • One combined Share-of-Voice report
  • Best value of the three

Not sure which fits? We will map it to your site on a quick call.

Frequently Asked Questions

How is AEO different from traditional SEO?+
SEO gets you ranked in a list of links. AEO gets you named as the direct answer in AI assistants and featured snippets. They share some groundwork, but answer engines reward structure and clarity that classic ranking does not, so we treat and report them separately.
How is AEO different from GEO?+
AEO targets answer engines: assistants and snippets that return one authoritative answer. GEO targets generative engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews that compose an answer from many sources and cite them. Different surfaces, related work. Most clients run both, which is why we offer a bundle.
Why do I need this if I already rank on Google?+
A growing share of searches end at an answer, not a list. If your content is not structured for answer engines, a competitor gets read back instead, even when you outrank them in classic search.
Where should I start?+
Most clients start with the AI Search Readiness Audit. It shows where you are cited, where you are missing, and what to fix first, so you can move into an ongoing AEO engagement with data in hand.

Find out if AI is naming you

Run an AI Search Readiness Audit and see exactly where you are the answer, and where a competitor is.