Glossary

AEO (Answer Engine Optimization)

Making a site readable and quotable by answer engines such as ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews.

What AEO changes on a site

Most AEO work is technical before it is editorial: the assistant has to reach the page and find text in it.

  • Crawler access in robots.txt for OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot and Google-Extended
  • Server-visible content instead of an empty application shell
  • A canonical URL on the production domain
  • JSON-LD that states what the site or product is
  • One main heading and real sections
  • An accurate sitemap and no stray noindex

AEO for sites built with AI builders

Lovable, Bolt, v0, Base44 and Replit generate client-rendered React by default and reuse the builder's metadata on every route. BulkAudits scores nine readiness checks per site and opens the fixes as pull requests.

Key Takeaways

  • 1.AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) is important for website performance and SEO.
  • 2.You can measure it using tools like BulkAudit and Google Lighthouse.
  • 3.Improving this metric can lead to better user experience and search rankings.

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