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What is AEO & GEO, and how is it different from SEO?
SEO gets you ranked in blue links. AEO and GEO get you quoted by the AI answering the question instead.
SEO gets you ranked. AEO/GEO gets you quoted.
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) targets the traditional results page — the blue links people click through. Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) target something narrower: being the actual source an AI assistant quotes or cites when someone asks it a question directly, whether that's Google's AI Overview, ChatGPT, or Perplexity.
What actually makes a page citable
Structured, extractable content: a clear, self-contained answer near the top rather than buried after three paragraphs of preamble, FAQ-formatted questions with direct schema markup, and a page that answers one specific question completely instead of vaguely covering many at once.
What this looks like in practice
Every guide on this site carries FAQPage and Speakable schema, and each one is scoped to a single, narrowly defined question rather than trying to rank for everything at once — the same structure this page is describing.
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Do I need separate content for AEO/GEO, or does good SEO content already work?+−
Good SEO content overlaps a lot with AEO/GEO, but not entirely — a page written to rank for ten keywords is rarely structured well enough to be quoted cleanly. AEO/GEO content tends to be narrower on purpose.
Can you actually guarantee an AI will cite our content?+−
No — no one controls what a model chooses to cite, the same way no one can guarantee a Google ranking. What's controllable is whether your content is structured in a way that's easy to extract and quote.
How do you measure whether AEO/GEO is working?+−
It's harder to measure than search rankings — there's no equivalent of Search Console for AI citations yet. Direct referral traffic from AI platforms and manually checking whether your content shows up in relevant AI answers are the practical signals available right now.
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