Answer / Ask Engine Optimization (AEO)

Optimise to be cited, not just ranked.

Manual AI-Enabled

Answer Engine Optimization is SEO for a world where the result is a synthesised answer, not a list of links. AEO makes your content the passage that AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini lift and cite.

That means answer-first structure, entity clarity, corroborated expertise, and formatting that's trivially extractable by a model — the difference between being the source and being invisible.

Outcomes, not activity

Content structured to be quoted by answer engines

Higher eligibility for AI Overviews, snippets, and PAA

Entity and corroboration signals that make AI trust you

Measured lift in AI citations and branded answers

What's included

AEO content audit

Where your content is un-quotable, and why.

Answer-structure rework

Answer-first passages, clean headings, quotable summaries.

Entity & schema layer

FAQ/HowTo/QAPage structure and entity reinforcement.

Citation-building plan

Earn presence on the sources AI pulls from.

The process

01

Prompt + gap analysis

How AI answers your category today and where you're missing.

02

Restructure

Make key content extractable and entity-clear.

03

Reinforce + measure

Corroboration and tracking of AI citations.

Who this is for

  • Brands losing clicks to AI Overviews and chatbots
  • Content teams that rank but never get cited by AI
  • Categories where buyers ask AI before they search

Common questions

How is AEO different from SEO?+

SEO wins the ranking; AEO wins the citation inside a generated answer. They overlap, but AEO optimises for extraction and trust, not just position.

Can you prove AI citations?+

I track branded mentions and citations across engines for your prompt set — it's directional, but measurable.

Is AEO the same as GEO?+

Closely related. AEO focuses on answer engines specifically; GEO (generative engine optimization) is the broader umbrella, delivered under Search Everywhere Optimization.

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