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AEO
Optimising to be the answer to a question rather than a result for a query. Used largely interchangeably with GEO; where a distinction is drawn, AEO tends to mean featured-snippet and direct-answer surfaces while GEO means generated prose.
Why it matters
Mostly worth knowing because it appears in vendor pitches as though it were a separate discipline requiring separate spend. It is the same work.
In practice
Treat it as a synonym unless a vendor can articulate what they do differently. Structure content so a single question has a single extractable answer near it.
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