AEO

Answer Engine Optimization: structuring content so AI answer engines, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, quote or cite it directly inside a generated answer instead of just linking to it. AEO competes for the sentence an AI reads back to the user, not just a ranking position. Google's own 2026 guidance frames AEO as an extension of SEO, not a separate ranking system.