Guides

Guides

Explainers and how-tos on the mechanics of answer engine optimization: what changed from classic SEO, how each engine picks its citations, and the site-level fixes that make a page quotable.

AEO basics

What is answer engine optimization? A plain-English guide

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

Updated Sep 24, 2026
Answer engines

How to rank in ChatGPT answers

Which crawlers to allow, what ChatGPT cites, and why.

Updated Sep 17, 2026
Answer engines

How Google's AI Overviews pick their sources

What published research says about which pages get cited.

Updated Sep 3, 2026
AEO basics

AEO vs SEO: what actually changes

Where the two disciplines overlap and where they split.

Updated Aug 30, 2026
Site mechanics

llms.txt: what it is and whether you need one

What the file does, who reads it, whether to bother.

Updated Aug 27, 2026
Site mechanics

Schema markup for answer engines

The types worth adding and the ones engines ignore.

Updated Aug 23, 2026
Answer engines

How Perplexity chooses its citations

Perplexity's ranking behavior and how publishers show up in it.

Updated Aug 20, 2026
Content

Writing FAQ pages that AI engines quote

Question-shaped headings, direct answers, and formatting that survives extraction.

Updated Aug 13, 2026