Considered design, measured in milliseconds.
Considered design, measured in milliseconds.
SEO optimizes for ranking, AEO for being the answer, GEO for being cited inside AI responses. Three layers of one problem — not three competing strategies. What each term actually means, the ~80% that overlaps, the 20% that genuinely differs, and how a B2B SaaS team should allocate effort.
AI answer engines don't rank links — they build consensus and lift passages. To get cited by ChatGPT and Perplexity you need crawler access, citable structure, and corroboration off your own site. The mechanism, the five steps, and the ten-minute exercise that shows what AI already says about you.