Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)
A related discipline focused on optimizing content to appear in direct answer features of AI assistants and search engines, such as featured snippets and conversational AI responses.
GEO Glossary
- Every LLM SEO Guide Gives the Same Eight Tips. We Measured Six of Them.
We asked two AI surfaces what LLM SEO is. They cited fourteen pages giving the same eight tips, none with a measurement. Five do not survive our register.
- Most of the Search Volume for AI Tools Belongs to Someone Else
Two GEO tools showed 27,100 and 9,900 searches a month. Disaggregated they are 627 and 53. And disaggregation is not enough: three more names are not theirs.
- Answer Engine Optimization: AEO vs GEO vs SEO
AEO is optimizing to be the answer, not a link. What separates it from GEO and SEO, what the controlled evidence supports, and what it does not.
- Profound Review 2026: The $1B Leader, and Its $99 Entry Plan
Profound raised $155M at a $1B valuation and is the category leader. Its entry plan tracks one engine. What that costs, and when it is the wrong buy.