AEO is getting your business named when someone asks an AI who to call. SEO gets you in the phone book. AEO gets you the recommendation. One is a list. The other is a handshake.
Answer Engine Optimization is the work of becoming the name ChatGPT says out loud. A customer asks the machine who the best company near them is. The machine names one or two. AEO decides whether you are in that sentence or watching your competitor get it.
Search used to be ten doors on a street and you just had to be on the street. Now it is one door, and the AI walks the customer straight to it. If it is not your door, you never even heard the knock.
Clear answers on your own site, structured data so the machines can read you, a wall of recent reviews, and mentions on the pages AI trusts. That is the recipe. Everything else is noise.
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