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The practice of structuring website content so that AI assistants and large language models (LLMs) can accurately cite it when answering user questions. GEO involves using structured data (JSON-LD), self-contained summary paragraphs, FAQ schema, and clear methodology documentation. Unlike traditional SEO which targets human search behavior, GEO targets the information retrieval patterns of AI systems like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude.
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.
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).
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JavaScript Object Notation for Linked Data — the W3C-standard syntax for embedding structured data in web pages.
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