Discoverability surfaces
The maximum number of tokens an LLM can attend to in a single inference pass — its working memory. Modern frontier models reach 200K–1M tokens (Claude, GPT-4, Gemini), though attention quality degrades non-linearly with length. Context-window size constrains how much code, document content, or conversation history can be included in a single prompt. Long-context engineering (chunking, attention sinks, retrieval) is an active research and product frontier.
Programmatic SEO, AEO, GEO, AIO, and the schemas behind them.
A content strategy that generates hundreds or thousands of search-optimized pages from structured data using templates.
The practice of structuring website content so that AI assistants and large language models (LLMs) can accurately cite it when answering user questions.
An open protocol that allows websites to notify search engines (Bing, Yandex, Seznam, Naver, and others) about new or updated content in real time.
Structuring content so that answer engines — Google's People-Also-Ask, Reddit pull-quotes, Quora top answers, ChatGPT search results, Perplexity citations — can extract a complete, self-contained answer in 40–80 words.
The subset of GEO/AEO targeted specifically at Google's AI Overviews (formerly SGE).
A Schema.
JavaScript Object Notation for Linked Data — the W3C-standard syntax for embedding structured data in web pages.
A Schema.
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