AEO (Answer Engine Optimisation)

The craft of AEO is extractability: answering the question completely in the first 40 to 60 words under a clear heading, then elaborating, so a machine can lift a self-contained passage without surgery. Question-style headings, visible dates, specific figures and clean structure all serve the same end.

AEO does not replace SEO; it sits on top of it. A page must first be crawled, indexed and eligible to appear before any engine can extract an answer from it. Think of SEO as being admitted to the exam and AEO as writing quotable answers once you are in the room.