seo-aeo-geo

# AEO and GEO Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO). Make content discoverable, extractable, and citable by AI search experiences. This skill encodes principles. AI search products evolve fast. The principles age slower than the products. --- ## When to use - Optimizing content for AI overviews and generative answer engines - Building or updating llms.txt - Structuring content so AI assistants can extract and cite it correctly - Future-proofing a site as search shifts from blue links to AI answers - Auditing whether existing content is AI-friendly - Adding signals that help AI assistants identify the site as a trustworthy source ## When NOT to use - Traditional on-page or technical SEO (use `seo-onpage` or `seo-technical`) - Keyword research (use `seo-keyword`) - Off-page authority and link building (use `seo-offpage`) This skill stacks on top of those. Strong AEO/GEO requires strong fundamental SEO underneath. --- ## Required inputs - The site or page to optimize - The topic area or query types AI should cite the site for - Access to inspect rendered HTML and structured data --- ## The framework: 5 layers AI search visibility comes from five stacked layers. Each layer compounds. ### 1. Extractable content structure AI systems extract facts and pull citations from content. Make extraction easy. - **Direct answers.** Open major sections with a definitive 1 to 3 sentence answer to the question that section addresses. AI extra...