domain · aeo
Get cited by AI search, not crawled-and-skipped
Answer-engine optimization: structured data, schema, llms.txt, .well-known surfaces. Designed for AI search.
Strongest claims
- Point-in-time AEO citation counts are noise: 74 percent of cited sources rotate weekly Aleyda Solis
- AI search visibility is an off-site corroboration problem with an on-site quality floor, not the inverse Aleyda Solis
- Keyword position reporting is measuring a construct that is dissolving as Google personalizes results per user Eli Schwartz
- Content paraphrasable by an AI answer engine is no longer a distribution moat Rand Fishkin
- High-reasoning AI mode and standard mode share only 25.6% of cited domains; AEO built for one misses three in four sources the other cites Kevin Indig
- AI discovery is a live signup channel: Webflow sees 10% of signups from AI, growing 4x year-over-year Kyle Poyar
Adjacent domains
- seo · 14 co-occurrences
- content-strategy · 7 co-occurrences
- growth-demand · 4 co-occurrences
- technical-seo · 2 co-occurrences
- measurement · 1 co-occurrences
- ecommerce · 1 co-occurrences
21 insights in aeo
- Point-in-time AEO citation counts are noise: 74 percent of cited sources rotate weekly · Aleyda Solis
- AI search visibility is an off-site corroboration problem with an on-site quality floor, not the inverse · Aleyda Solis
- More AI answer links do not automatically mean more traffic; track six AEO signals separately, not blended into one score · Aleyda Solis
- Google formalized five citation surfaces in AI Mode and AI Overviews, giving AEO a specific placement target inside Google search · Barry Schwartz
- Google preferred-source labels create a credibility tier inside AI Mode citations that compounds authority for brands already earning it · Barry Schwartz
- Nav and footer placement is a first-class LLM relevance signal, independent of page content. · Casey Hill
- Keyword position reporting is measuring a construct that is dissolving as Google personalizes results per user · Eli Schwartz
- Content paraphrasable by an AI answer engine is no longer a distribution moat · Rand Fishkin
- Web traffic fell 46% in three years; clicks were always the wrong proxy for attention, and the fix is a measurement reframe, not a content overhaul · Rand Fishkin
- Web traffic is down 46 percent in three years: produce content made for platforms first, articles second · Rand Fishkin
- Google's subscription highlight in AI Mode gives paywalled content a visual trust tag inline, changing the ROI on publisher partnerships for AEO · Google
- High-reasoning AI mode and standard mode share only 25.6% of cited domains; AEO built for one misses three in four sources the other cites · Kevin Indig
- AI discovery is a live signup channel: Webflow sees 10% of signups from AI, growing 4x year-over-year · Kyle Poyar
- The signals that earn blue-link rankings are the same ones that earn AI-generated answer citations, making AEO an extension of SEO discipline, not a replacement. · Lily Ray
- A Google penalty removes a page from every AI surface at once, not just Google search · Lily Ray
- AI search runs a five-gatekeeper pipeline and the Critic is where most content dies, invisibly · Mike King
- AI crawlers return 499 errors on slow pages. Speed is a gate, not a ranking modifier. · Mike King
- Google's AI optimization guide contradicts its own technical research in four places; calling it 'still SEO' is a rhetorical strategy, not a neutral description · Mike King
- Wrap proprietary research in JavaScript-rendered divs to protect IP from LLM crawlers; 69% cannot execute JavaScript · Mike King
- Serve Markdown to AI crawlers you want indexing your content; Cloudflare measured an 80% token size reduction versus full HTML · Mike King
- Google's May 2026 Core Update rewarded source type fit over authority alone, concentrating visibility around canonical destinations for each query's dominant intent · Aleyda Solis