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SEO, GEO & AEO

We value the key tenets of traditional SEO, while leaning into GEO & AEO to help drive brand discovery in today's changing technology landscape.

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"The emergence of AI answer engines changes how people search and gather information, but many of the key principles of traditional SEO still apply. We just need to cater more to the bots and how they tend to discover content and its meaning."
Jake — Practice Lead, LiftCentro

What is Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)?

Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is the practice of optimizing content so that it gets selected, cited, or summarized by AI-powered answer engines like Chat GPT, Claude, Gemini and others. It focuses on being the source of an AI-powered response so that your content gets surfaced even when users never click through to your website or landing page.

Why is good AEO important?

As AI-powered answer engines capture a growing share of search traffic, users increasingly get their answers directly from AI summaries rather than clicking through to websites. If your content isn't optimized to be selected by these systems, you become invisible in that channel, even if you rank well in traditional search.

Good GEO ensures your business stays visible and credible as people's information gathering tactics evolve.

How do we approach AEO?

We start by auditing your existing content to understand where you have genuine authority and where there are gaps.

From there, we restructure and rewrite your key pages to directly answer the questions your audience is actually asking, in the clear, concise format that generative engines prefer.

We layer in structured data and build out topical depth so that AI systems recognize you as an authority in your space.

Changing with the times

How people get at answers these days has changed. But the foundations of strong content and sound site structure are still key drivers to helping you get your brand discovered.

Our reporting covers the key metrics that you would expect with traditional SEO, but with enhancements that focus on AEO and GEO. Learn how we mix in traditional SEO to more modern engine opitmization by scheduling a free strategy session.

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Build it (what the engines look for) and they will come


Being found in LLM-powered answers requires a new approach to optimization that includes the kinds of elements that answer engines are looking for: schema markup, concise questions and answer structures, and delving deep into topics that form the essence of your business.

Our team partners with you to ensure these gaps are filled so your business can be discovered whether people are using traditional web searches or more conversational approaches to gaining knowledge.

Our Sweet Spots

A mix of traditional SEO with GEO & AEO

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Technical SEO

Site speed optimization, crawlability fixes, and mobile responsiveness

Structured data (schema markup) implementation

XML sitemaps, canonical tags, and indexation management

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On-Page SEO

Keyword research and strategic placement in titles, headers, and body copy

Meta title and description optimization

Internal linking structure and content hierarchy improvements

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Content Strategy & Creation

Developing topic clusters and pillar page frameworks

Creating optimized blogs, landing pages, and supporting content

Refreshing and updating underperforming existing content

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Off-Page SEO & Link Building

Earning high-authority backlinks through outreach and digital PR

Managing brand mentions and unlinked citation opportunities

Competitor backlink gap analysis and strategy

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Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)

Optimizing content structure and authority signals to appear in AI-generated responses from tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude

Building topical depth and expertise through comprehensive, well-cited content that LLMs recognize as trustworthy

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Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)

Structuring content to target featured snippets and People Also Ask results

Optimizing for conversational, voice, and AI-generated search responses

Building authoritative, citation-worthy content for LLM and AI search visibility

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SEO, GEO & AEO

What do your A/B testing engagements look like?

We offer low to high velocity testing engagements. For medium velocity testing engagements where we are launching one to two tests per month, we typically have bi-weekly calls with customers where we cover test planning for new test ideas in the pipeline and review data for live or recently concluded tests. In terms of deliverables every test culminates with a "Recap & Recommendations" document that covers the data and what we recommend going forward, based on the data.

What are the differences between SEO, GEO & AEO?

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is the established practice of optimizing content to rank highly in traditional search results, through keywords, backlinks, technical site health, and authority signals.

AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) emerged as voice search and featured snippets grew, focusing specifically on getting your content selected as the direct answer to a question, such as in Google's "People Also Ask" boxes or Alexa/Siri responses.

GEO is the newest evolution, targeting AI-generated summaries and citations in tools like Perplexity, ChatGPT, and Google's AI Overviews.

The three overlap in many ways. Strong, authoritative, well-structured content tends to perform across all three, yet their goals differ. SEO drives clicks to your site. AEO gets you featured as a snippet, sometimes without a click. GEO gets your content woven into an AI's generated response, often with a citation but increasingly without one at all.

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