Common Inquiries.

Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is the practice of optimizing your content to be cited by AI search engines like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity. Unlike SEO which aims for links, AEO aims for citations as the "authoritative source".

SEO optimizes for 10 Blue Links. AEO optimizes for the Single Answer. AEO focuses on Structured Data (Schema), Entity Authority, and Direct Answer formatting, whereas SEO focuses on keywords and backlinks.

With AI search visits doubling annually (743M+), capturing the "cited source" position establishes you as the market authority. It's about being the answer given before the user ever clicks a link.

Technical implementation (Schema, Robot access) typically shows crawl results in 2-4 weeks. Authority building and consistent citation for competitive terms takes 2-3 months.

Schema markup (JSON-LD) is code that helps AI understand your content. It is critical because AI engines prioritize machine-readable data. AEOfix analysis shows proper schema correlates with ~340% higher citation rates.

E-E-A-T stands for Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness. AI engines look for these signals (author credentials, citations, trust badges) to verify if a source is reliable enough to cite.

They can, but it takes 4-6 months of R&D to learn what we've already solved. We offer a 30-day turnkey solution. It's faster and cheaper to use our proven templates than to pay senior engineers to reinvent the wheel.

Yes. For enterprise clients, we act as specialized consultants. We deliver the code blocks (JSON-LD), llms.txt, and specs. Your team handles the deployment via your CI/CD pipeline.

We track and optimize for the Big 4: ChatGPT (OpenAI), Claude (Anthropic), Gemini (Google), and Perplexity (AI Search).

Source Mapping is our proprietary reporting service. We track 150+ queries in your niche to see exactly which URLs the AI engines are citing, giving you a clear "market share" report for AI visibility.

Yes. Voice search (Siri, Alexa) relies on the same "Direct Answer" architecture as AI chatbots. Optimizing for one naturally benefits the other.

Hallucination is when an AI invents facts because it lacks a grounded source. By providing structured facts (AEO), you prevent the AI from making things up about your brand.

We measure success via: 1) Citation Frequency (how often you are cited), 2) Source Ranking (position among sources), 3) Answer Accuracy (does AI get it right?), and 4) Competitive Displacement (replacing competitors).

Yes. AI engines are increasingly used for local recommendations ("best plumber near me"). LocalBusiness schema and geo-specific content help you appear in these AI-generated local answers.