AI SEO glossary

• AEO (answer engine optimization)
  AEO is shaping content so answer engines return it directly. How it differs from GEO and LLMO, and what to check in a course.
• AI citation
  An AI citation is a link or named mention of your page inside an AI assistant's answer. What it means, and how courses cover it.
• AI Mode
  Google's chat-style search tab, where one question fans out into many searches, and how it differs from AI Overviews.
• AI Overviews
  Google's generated summary above the classic results, the surface most AI SEO course pages name, and what to check before you buy.
• AI SEO
  The umbrella term for getting a site read and cited inside AI answers, and why it tells you little about what a course teaches.
• Answer engine
  A search product that replies to a question directly and cites sources, instead of handing back a list of links to work through.
• Entity SEO
  Entity SEO is making machines identify your brand correctly, the identity layer beneath GEO and AEO, plus what to ask a course.
• GEO (generative engine optimization)
  Getting content cited inside AI-written answers instead of ranked in a list of links, and how it differs from SEO, AEO and LLMO.
• LLMO (large language model optimization)
  Work aimed at getting a brand named and cited inside large language model answers, and how it differs from SEO, GEO and AEO.
• llms.txt
  A plain text file at a site root that points language models at the pages you want read. Unproven, one part of crawler access.
• Share of answer
  How often AI assistants name or cite you across a set of prompts, and why a single spot check tells you nothing.
• Skool community
  Skool is a subscription community platform used by a chunk of AI SEO programs, and its star ratings need care.

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