What is answer engine optimization (AEO)?
Answer engine optimization is the practice of making your company the answer when a buyer asks an AI engine a question — being retrieved, cited, understood, and described correctly. It differs from SEO, which measures whether you rank on a page of links.
How do you get recommended by ChatGPT?
Make sure AI crawlers can read your pages without JavaScript, keep one consistent description of your company across every source, publish pages that answer constrained buyer questions, and earn mentions on pages you do not control. Then measure what the models actually say, per engine, every month.
Is being cited by AI the same as being recommended?
No. A citation means a model used your page as a source. A recommendation means it named your product as an option worth evaluating. Many B2B SaaS companies have the first without the second.
What does this cost?
The audit is $499 one time, and ongoing work is $2,500 per month with no contract. Both free tools run on your domain before you pay anything.
How long does AEO take to work?
Changes to your own site register soonest in engines that search the web on every question. Changes to how third parties describe you take longer, because they depend on other sites being updated and re-crawled. Anyone promising a date for a specific engine is guessing.