Glossary
Answer engine optimisation
Answer engine optimisation is optimising specifically for the moment an AI system selects a source for a fact.
The narrow version of GEO
Where generative engine optimisation covers the whole surface, answer engine optimisation is about the retrieval layer: being the page a model picks when it needs one authoritative sentence about a definition, a number or a date.
In practice that means one short, complete, checkable answer per page, placed early.
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