GEO
generative-engine-optimization, llm-visibility, ai-seoDefinition
Generative engine optimization — making content findable, quotable and correctly attributed by AI assistants that answer questions directly instead of returning links: clear claims, stable URLs, structured data, permissive crawling, and being the source others cite
SEO's successor question, and the subject of this site's LLM Visibility Optimizer: it scans a site the way an answer engine would — robots rules, llms.txt, structured data, claim density — and scores what the assistant would find. The overlap with SEO is large; the difference is that an answer engine needs a fact it can lift, not a page it can rank.
Search optimization for engines that answer rather than list. The page is no longer the unit; the sentence is — and whether it is clear, dated, and attributable enough to be repeated with your name on it.
The third rung after SEO and AEO. An answer engine extracts a passage you wrote; a generative engine writes its own, and the question becomes whether your page shaped it and whether your name survived the paraphrase.