The terminology
AEO, GEO and SEO: what the work involves
Answer engine optimization and generative engine optimization describe efforts to improve how businesses appear in generated answers. The labels do not establish a separate set of guaranteed ranking tactics.
There is substantial overlap
Accessible pages, accurate facts, useful content and credible references matter to a business regardless of the channel. Google's AI-feature guidance points to ordinary search fundamentals and does not require special AI markup. Google's documentation.
Answer measurement adds a different observation
We store the answers and cited sources for selected questions. We distinguish mentions, recommendations and citations, and label API observations separately from consumer interfaces.
Buy a concrete scope
Ask which pages and profiles will change, who will do the work, what will be measured and what the provider cannot establish. Citation counts are not market share, and a before-and-after change alone does not prove a cause.
Our scope and prices · What an audit should contain · Ranking in ChatGPT
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