AEO

We asked ChatGPT, Google AI Mode and Perplexity 40 local questions in Palm Beach County. See who they name, which sites they cite and where they agree.

AEO costs $950 to $2,000 a month at Good At Marketing, sold alongside SEO. See what moves the price and what to ask any vendor before you pay.

Schema markup for small business: add Organization and LocalBusiness first. See which types earn rich results, which are retired, and what AI needs.

Track ChatGPT traffic in GA4: find chatgpt.com sessions, build an AI channel group, and see what Search Console and Bing report on AI answers.

AI crawlers and robots.txt: allow search bots such as OAI-SearchBot and PerplexityBot, decide on training bots separately, and see what llms.txt does.

How AI search engines choose sources: Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude, compared from each vendor’s own pages.

Pay to be recommended by ChatGPT? You can buy ads in ChatGPT and Google AI answers, not the answer itself. What each costs and what to test.

Fix wrong information about your business in AI answers: find the source, correct it, then report the error through each vendor’s own channel.

What is answer engine optimization (AEO)? A plain definition, how it relates to SEO and GEO, a glossary of the competing terms, and when to pay for it.

How to get your business recommended by ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews: what each engine draws on, a one-week plan, and what no one can guarantee.