Answer engine optimization (AEO) is the practice of structuring your content so search features and AI assistants can quote it as the direct answer to a question. It targets Google AI Overviews, featured snippets, People Also Ask and voice results, where customers get an answer without clicking ten links.
Answer engines pull from pages that answer a question clearly, early and with structure they can trust. We find the questions your customers ask and make your site the clearest source for them.
AEO helps any business whose customers research before they buy: professional services, healthcare, home services and nonprofits. It’s also proven on our own site. A guide we published has been cited in Google AI Overviews for questions such as “best app for lawn care business.”
We pull the real questions from People Also Ask, AI answers and your own sales calls, and match each to a page.
We rewrite or create content that answers in the first sentence, then add the schema and formatting answer engines rely on.
We track which questions you are cited for in AI Overviews, featured snippets and AI assistants, and expand from there.
SEO aims to rank your pages in search results. AEO aims to have your content quoted as the answer itself, in AI Overviews, featured snippets, voice results and AI assistants. Good AEO builds on solid SEO.
AEO focuses on being the direct answer to specific questions. GEO (generative engine optimization) focuses on how AI tools like ChatGPT and Gemini describe and recommend your business overall. We usually do both together.
No. No one controls which sources AI tools choose. We make your content the clearest, best-structured answer available and track where it gets cited.
AEO is part of our monthly plans, which start at $450 per month. See our pricing page.
New clients start with a six-month minimum, then continue month to month.
Book a free consultation and we’ll show you the questions your customers ask, and who answer engines are quoting instead of you.
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