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AEO: Answer Engine Optimization
Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) structures your pages so that search engines and assistants can lift a clear, correct answer directly from your site: a featured snippet, a People Also Ask result, a voice answer or a line in an AI summary.
Why it matters
Many searches now end on the results page itself, with the answer shown above the links. If your page gives the best answer in a form machines can lift, you become the source. If it buries the answer in long text, someone else is quoted instead.
Who this is for
- Businesses that get asked the same questions again and again
- Local and service businesses targeting 'near me' and question searches
- Online stores with buying-guide and comparison content
- Sites with good content that never appears in snippets or answer boxes
What you get
- Question map tied to your products or services
- Answer-first rewrites or new pages
- Validated structured data
- Snippet and answer tracking against a baseline
What is included
- Question research from real search behaviour
- Answer-first page structure and formatting
- FAQ, HowTo and other schema where it applies
- Featured snippet and People Also Ask targeting
- Voice and conversational query optimisation
- Local and 'near me' answer optimisation
How we work
- Find the questions. Research the real questions your customers type and speak, grouped by stage of the buying journey.
- Restructure for answers. Put a direct answer first, then the detail, using headings, lists and tables that suit how the answer is shown.
- Add the markup. Add FAQ, HowTo, Product or LocalBusiness schema where it matches what is on the page.
- Measure the win. Track snippet ownership, People Also Ask appearances, impressions and clicks against the baseline.
Questions
Does schema markup guarantee a featured snippet?
No. Schema helps machines understand a page, but search engines choose what to show. Clear answers on the page matter most.
How is AEO different from GEO?
AEO focuses on being the direct answer in search results, snippets and voice. GEO focuses on being mentioned and cited by AI assistants. The work overlaps heavily, so we plan them together.