AI Search & Answer Engines
ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google’s AI Overviews answer questions directly and cite a few sources. Learn how these systems pick sources and how businesses become one of them.
- Explainer
What is answer engine optimization (AEO)?
Answer engine optimization (AEO) is the practice of making a business's content easy for AI search tools such as Google's AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity to find, understand, and cite in their answers.
- How-to
How do businesses get recommended by ChatGPT?
ChatGPT recommends and cites businesses using pages it finds through its search features, so a business has to let OpenAI's search crawler reach its site and publish clear, accurate information that answers the questions customers ask.
- Explainer
What is llms.txt?
llms.txt is a proposed Markdown file, placed at a website's root or a subpath, that gives AI agents a short overview of the site and links to clean, LLM-friendly versions of its most useful pages.
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