The practice of structuring content, entities and technical signals so that answer engines and AI features like AI Overviews can safely reuse your information in direct answers.
AEO is the practice of making your content easy for answer engines (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity and similar) to understand, trust, and reuse. It’s less about “ranking #1” and more about being a safe, clear source when AI summarises a topic or recommends options.
AEO complements SEO: when your pages are clear, trustworthy, and technically accessible, they’re more likely to be cited - whether the user clicks or not.
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AI Answer Audit
The process of systematically querying AI engines with target prompts and analysing whether, how, and how accurately a brand is cited in the responses.
AI Citation
A source reference shown in AI-generated answers that attributes information to a specific webpage, publisher, or document.
AI Search Index
A specialised index optimised for AI-powered search, often combining traditional search with vector embeddings.
AI Search Visibility
The degree to which a brand, product, or service appears in AI-generated answers across engines such as Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, ChatGPT Search, and Bing Copilot.
Bing Copilot
Microsoft's AI-powered search experience built on GPT-4 and Bing's index, delivering conversational answers with citations alongside traditional search results.
ChatGPT Search
OpenAI's web-search capability integrated into ChatGPT, which retrieves and cites live sources when responding to queries - making brand visibility in its index commercially important.
Related GEO services, audits, and frameworks that operationalise Answer Engine Optimisation in commercial execution.
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