SEO, GEO and AEO
AEO meaning: answer engine optimization, not customs
The letters are a craft on one URL. Customs is a different AEO.
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Answer engine optimization for extractable, attributable answers.
SEO, GEO and AEO
AEO vs GEO vs SEO: three jobs, not three synonyms
If you use the three letters as synonyms, you will buy the wrong work and measure the wrong door.
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AEO vs SEO: two jobs, two numbers
You can rank and stay unnamed. You can be quoted from a URL that does not rank.
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Answer engine optimization: the craft, not the acronym
The craft fits in the first HTML screen. Everything after it is written for humans.
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If the answer is in paragraph nine, you did not write a page
The first screen is the page. Everything after it is permission to stay.
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ChatGPT mentions vs citations: a name is not a source
If you cannot click through to the claim with your name on it, you were mentioned. You were not cited.
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How to measure ChatGPT citations: a weekly log, not a screenshot
One good answer proves it happened once. A dated row per question, per run, shows how often.
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Citation-readiness audit: eligible is not cited
If you cannot fail the page in fifteen minutes, you do not have an audit. You have a mood.
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Content architecture that answer engines can lift
One claim per URL, named entities, and structured data a machine can quote without inventing you.
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A conversion system that stays honest when you automate it
A conversion system is allowed to remember. It is not allowed to invent the reason to buy.
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GPTBot vs OAI-SearchBot vs ChatGPT-User: three bots, three jobs
One vendor name hides three decisions: training, Search, and a fetch that a person started.
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How Answer Engines Choose Sources
Citation visibility is not won with an AI hack. It is earned by combining technical eligibility, clear answers, original value and evidence that survives scrutiny.
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How to get cited by ChatGPT
Open the Search door. Write a sentence a machine can steal. Then check if your name appeared.
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Person entity SEO: a name an engine can attach
A byline gives an engine a string. A coherent author graph gives that string somewhere to resolve.
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GEO meaning: generative engine optimization, not geography
The globe is the wrong object. GEO is whether a machine can quote you without inventing you.
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The first screen an answer engine can quote
GEO is the system. AEO is the page. If the first screen cannot be quoted, the rest of the page will not save it.
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What is llms.txt? A manifesto, not a ranking switch
A voluntary map guides the client that opens it. It has no power over one that never asks.
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Why am I not mentioned in ChatGPT?
If the crawler never saw a sentence it can steal with your name on it, the model has nothing to name.