What is the difference between AEO, GEO and SEO?
SEO aims to rank pages in search results. AEO aims to have your content used as the answer — in featured snippets, voice assistants and AI Overviews. GEO focuses specifically on generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity, which write an answer and cite sources. In practice they overlap: the same well-structured, trustworthy content wins all three.
- SEO metric: rankings, organic clicks
- AEO/GEO metric: mentions, citations and accuracy in AI answers
- Shared foundation: crawlable pages, clear answers, authority and entity consistency
