Learn AEO, GEO, and how AI recommends.
Short, honest guides to how answer engines pick who to name, and what actually moves the needle. Start with the basics, then go deep.
The guides
Everything here is written to explain, not to sell. When you want to see where your own business stands, run the free scanner.
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AEO vs SEO →
AEO vs SEO explained: the goal, where buyers see you, what you optimize, and how each is measured. They read different signals, and both matter.
What Is GEO →
Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) means shaping content to get cited inside AI answers. How GEO overlaps with AEO, and where the emphasis differs.
What Is LLMO →
LLM optimization (LLMO) means shaping how large language models represent and surface your brand. Its levers, and how LLMO relates to AEO and GEO.
How AI Answer Engines Work →
How ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews decide who to recommend, and the signals that make a business easy to cite.
Get Cited in ChatGPT →
How ChatGPT decides which businesses to name, and the honest levers that make yours easier to cite across model memory and live web search.
Rank in Perplexity →
Perplexity searches the live web and cites its sources for every answer. Here is how to become one of the fresh, credible pages it retrieves and quotes.
Google AI Overviews →
What Google AI Overviews and AI Mode are in 2026, how Google builds them from indexed sources, and the honest levers to appear inside them.
Glossary →
Plain-English definitions of the AEO, GEO, and LLMO vocabulary, from entities and grounding to citations, schema, and recommendation rate.
Choosing an AEO Agency →
A buyer's guide to hiring for AI visibility: how to tell a real AEO partner from an SEO shop that added the word, what to ask, and the red flags to avoid.
Is AEO Worth It? →
An honest look at whether AEO is worth the money, from the hidden cost of AI invisibility to when it pays off, when it doesn't, and how to reason about ROI.
Measuring AEO Performance →
Most businesses have never checked what ChatGPT or Gemini says about them. A practical way to score AI visibility, set a baseline, and track it monthly.
AEO Results Timeline →
How long until AEO results? On-site fixes can move AI answers in weeks, off-site trust builds over months, and a guaranteed date is always a guess.
AEO Readiness Checklist →
Whether AI answer engines can reach, identify, extract from, and trust your site. A five-checkpoint readiness check you can run yourself.
How Much Does AEO Cost? →
What AEO actually costs in 2026: the one-time foundation, the monthly retainers, the four ways to buy it, and what should make you walk.
Do You Need an AEO Agency? →
An honest breakdown of what AEO work you can do yourself, where do-it-yourself hits a wall, and when hiring is actually worth it.
Best AEO Tools in 2026 →
An editorial roundup organized by the job each tool does, from AI visibility tracking to schema, crawling, and research, with honest limits.
AEO for Local Businesses →
How local, high-trust service businesses get named when buyers ask an AI assistant who to hire, and how AEO works alongside Local SEO.
Competing Against Bigger Brands →
Why size is not the deciding factor in AI answers, where big brands are weak, and the concrete levers a smaller specialist can pull.
Reddit, Social & AI Answers →
Why AI answer engines lean on Reddit, reviews, and social discussion, how a genuine mention becomes a trusted signal, and why fake seeding backfires.
Optimizing FAQ Pages for AI →
How to write answer-first FAQ passages, add correct FAQPage schema, and avoid the mistakes that cost AI visibility.
Find out what AI says about you.
Run the free scanner — real queries against four live engines — and see whether you are recommended, mentioned, cited, or excluded. It is one live sample per engine, so read it as a starting point rather than a verdict.