Question 1

What exactly is AI SEO?

Accepted Answer

It's optimizing your content, entities and authority signals so AI tools like ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Gemini cite or recommend your business when someone asks a relevant question, instead of, or alongside, ranking in traditional search.

Question 2

How do you measure AI visibility?

Accepted Answer

By running real prompts through each platform and tracking how often, and how favorably, your business gets mentioned, the same method used to get the Canary Mail numbers above, where mentions were tracked separately across Google AI Overview, AI Mode, ChatGPT and Gemini.

Question 3

Does AI SEO replace traditional SEO?

Accepted Answer

No, they work together, and most of the same fundamentals (clear content, technical health, real authority) support both. But the tactics that win an AI citation aren't identical to the ones that win a page-one ranking, which is why it's treated as its own discipline.

Question 4

Which AI platforms do you optimize for?

Accepted Answer

ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode and Gemini are the core four right now, since they carry the most search-replacing query volume. The landscape moves fast, so this list gets revisited regularly.

Question 5

How is this different from AEO or GEO?

Accepted Answer

AI SEO is the umbrella, visibility across AI-powered search generally. AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) focuses specifically on structuring content to be pulled as a direct answer. GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) focuses on how generative models synthesize and cite sources. In practice they overlap heavily and are usually worked on together.

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