What is AEO? Why ChatGPT never mentions your brand
Answer Engine Optimization makes AI systems cite and recommend your brand when buyers ask questions before they search Google.
AEO is the practice of structuring your entity, content, and technical access so ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews can extract and trust your answers.
Classic SEO still matters. AEO adds BLUF openings, FAQ schema, entity signals, and citation sources that AI systems already trust.
If your competitors appear in AI answers and you do not, you lose the first recommendation before a SERP click ever happens.