What is AEO?
Answer Engine Optimization
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In simple words,
Our ability to influence the answer
That the answer engine will provide to its users.
What is an Answer Engine?
Usually AI-based, where users ask questions and it provides them with personalized answers, unlike Google which provides an index of results.
To better understand your brand and provide personalized answers accordingly, like GPTS, but the information in them does not affect the general answer engines.
Why do businesses want to appear in answer engines?
More and more users prefer to ask ChatGPT and its counterparts specific questions and receive accurate answers.
Usage is growing rapidly, world powers like the USA are investing massive resources in developing these tools and trying to stay ahead of other countries to dominate the AI market.
New tools are emerging like mushrooms after the rain, and interest in AI is breaking all previous records.
According to forecasts, sooner or later, answer engines will surpass Google’s index searches. This is also one of the main reasons Google invested astronomical amounts in developing its answer engine, Gemini.
What are the advantages of appearing in AI engines?
And will be perceived as an advanced company that identifies market trends and changes.
Should you start doing AEO now?
It’s very similar to the early days of Bitcoin, those who did it first made insane profits.
You can compare this to what happened in the SEO field [organic promotion on Google] 20 years ago; Those who entered first did it relatively easily and remained for many years, establishing their brand. Those trying to promote now realize it is extremely difficult, almost impossible, to be first on Google in competitive terms.
How does AEO work?
Since CHATGPT went live, we have made countless assumptions about how to influence the answers of answer engines. There's no definitive answer to what works and what doesn’t, so we simply experiment with our own sites to understand what works better, what influences, and what can provide value.
You could say we've figured out the direction and the actions needed to achieve results and successfully integrate our brands into the answer engines, but of course, there is still a lot to learn and develop.
What actions need to be taken to appear in AI-based answer engines?
- Digital Trust
- LLM Friendly
- Writing optimized for AI engines
- AI machine awareness
- Digital Trust
- LLM Friendly
- Writing optimized for AI engines
- AI machine awareness
Each parameter has many sub-factors related to achieving the desired result, and their behavior varies depending on the type of business and market competition.
We will try to explain each of them in a simple way here and in more detail on the relevant page.
What is Digital Trust?
Your digital brand trust is composed of many factors such as website quality, social media presence, reviews, domain age, overall brand visibility on the internet, and many other parameters.
By weighing all the parameters together, the AI engines give a certain score to the site that affects its promotion.
What is LLM Friendly?
The level of accessibility of AI engines to the information and content provided by the brand. This is reflected in several factors such as:
– Website speed
– Work reliability on the site
– Technical construction of pages
– Content adaptation for search engines
– Answer adaptation for AI engines and more
What is Writing optimized for AI engines?
It refers to writing that AI-based answer engines favor, reflected in several prominent elements:
- Questions and answers, correct construction, and logical flow, as seen on this example site.
- Conversational writing style – meaning the content can be read like a conversation between two people or friends.
- Understanding the user’s intent in answer engines – unlike searching on Google, the wording in answer engines is different, and the answer must be provided in a logical language relevant to the question.
What is AI machine awareness?
Increasing awareness of a particular brand through guided questions and creating a dialogue with answer engines to provide them with additional information about the brand, service, product, customers, and any activity we want to promote.
How to start AEO promotion?
Here you will find information about our experiments, learn from practical insights, contribute to community development, and implement it yourself!
Enjoy exposure and leading presence – leave your details and we will check compatibility with your brand!