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Core mechanics of Answer Engine Optimization — what AI extractors look for and how they cite.
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Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) — also called AI SEO or AI search engine optimization — is the practice of structuring content so ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews cite it. Definition, mechanics, four-layer extraction recipe.
Your brand name collides with VASP, CASP, CMS or another business — AI Overviews summarise the wrong entity. The fix: title pattern, disambiguatingDescription, sameAs, Wikidata, 60–90 day timeline.
AEO vs SEO, GEO vs SEO, AEO vs GEO — how the three disciplines actually differ in 2026. AEO targets answer surfaces (AI Overviews, voice), GEO targets generative engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity), SEO ranks blue links. Practical line and overlap.
Google AI Overviews (the AI overview box at the top of Google search) now appear on ~50% of commercial-intent searches. What triggers AI overviews, what content wins placement, and the structural compliance that lifts AI overview rate by 30%+.
Ninety days, week by week, from zero to first-place citations. The exact plan we ran for Gofaizen & Sherle, generalised so any B2B brand can adapt it. With timelines, deliverables, and decision gates.