Questions about AEO, answered from measurement
These pages answer questions about answer engine optimization using runs that were recorded, dated and published, rather than definitions restated from other people’s posts. Each one states what was observed, on which engine, in which country and on what date, and each links back to the log the observation came from.
They exist separately from the main claim page for one reason: they answer a question somebody actually types, and the home answers a different one. A page that only repeated what the home already says would be splitting the site’s own authority in two and helping nobody.
That rule has teeth. Ten question pages were proposed for this cluster on 26 September 2026 and seven were not written: four repeated sections the home already publishes, one would have competed with the home for the query the home exists to answer, and two, on the cost of AEO and on which tools to use, would have needed numbers this site does not have. Writing them anyway would have produced exactly the thing this cluster is meant to be an argument against: volume standing in for substance.
What is left is narrow on purpose. The comparison pages are written from what the engines returned, which is why they say things the definitional versions cannot, such as that ranking and being cited do not always move together, and that the same query answered on the same day returns different names in different countries. The measurement page is the method behind the citation log itself, including the part most write-ups leave out: what does not become a row, and why an engine that blocks you must never be recorded as an engine that ignored you.
The list below is ordered by when each page was last checked against the record, most recent first. That ordering is the point: these are not evergreen explainers, they are readings of systems that change, and a page nobody has re-checked in months should say so by sitting at the bottom.
| Question | What it answers | Last checked |
|---|---|---|
| AEO vs GEO: what is the difference? | AEO and GEO name nearly the same work under two labels. What separates practitioners is not the term they use but whether they measure what engines return. | 30 September 2026 |
| AEO vs SEO: what is the difference? | SEO competes for a position on a results page. AEO competes to be the source an AI answer cites. Ranking well does not mean being cited, and the log shows it. | 30 September 2026 |
| How do you measure AEO? | AEO is measured by running fixed queries across engines on a schedule and recording what each returns, including the runs that return nothing at all. | 30 September 2026 |
| How do you do AEO? | AEO is done by fixing the entity, writing extractable passages, earning outside corroboration and measuring what engines return, in that order. | 30 September 2026 |
| How much does AEO cost? | AEO is sold on three pricing models, and the one you choose matters more than the number. What drives cost, and which promises should end a conversation. | 30 September 2026 |