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Answer engine optimization guides for AI search

How to get cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's AI Overviews.

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  1. 01

    Learn what AEO is

    The plain-English guide to answer engine optimization.

  2. 02

    Get into ChatGPT answers

    Crawlers, ranking, and passages worth quoting.

  3. 03

    Measure your AI traffic

    Spot referrals from chatgpt.com and perplexity.ai in analytics.

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AEO basics

Definitions, checklists, and how answer engines choose sources.

Answer engines

Per-engine guides for ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI Overviews.

Site mechanics

robots.txt, sitemaps, llms.txt, and schema markup.

Measurement

Finding AI referrals and tracking citations over time.

The engines we cover

ChatGPT

Cites pages fetched by OAI-SearchBot. Blocking it removes you from answers.

Perplexity

Every answer carries citations. PerplexityBot needs robots.txt access.

AI Overviews

Google's summaries pull from pages Googlebot already ranks.

Copilot

Runs on Bing's index, so Bingbot access is the prerequisite.

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What is answer engine optimization? A plain-English guide

A working definition, how answer engines choose their sources, and a checklist for getting cited.

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Schema markup for answer engines

The types worth adding and the ones engines ignore.

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