AEO
Answer Engine Optimization
Optimization for engines that answer questions directly — Google featured snippets, voice assistants (Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant), Bing Answers. The answer comes from a single source with attribution preserved.
Subset of: SEO
- Appeared
- Concept formalized around 2016, alongside the rise of featured snippets and voice assistants.
- Tactics
- Short declarative phrasings (40–55 words), Q&A structure, FAQ schema, self-contained definitions, answer-first paragraphs at section openings.
“AEO” is part of Glossary · AEO and GEO — part of the Atlas, Websem's reference of AI search, marketing and data terms.