Glossary
Answer engine optimization (AEO)
Definition
Structuring content so an answer engine can quote it directly: the question stated plainly, the answer given first in a complete and self-contained form, and supporting detail after. AEO is the writing discipline inside the broader practice of GEO.
Assistants compose answers from fragments they can lift with confidence. A page that buries its answer under six paragraphs of preamble gives them nothing to lift. A page that opens with a direct, accurate, fifty-word answer gives them exactly what they need, with your name attached.
This page, and every page in our answers section, is written that way on purpose. The same structure goes into the neighborhood and specialty content we build for clients.