# Answer engine optimization (AEO)

> Structuring content so that answer engines — chat assistants and AI overviews — can find it, quote it and attribute it correctly.

Search engines return ten links; answer engines return one answer. What gets quoted is the page that states a claim plainly enough to lift verbatim: a definition that stands alone in a sentence, a list of steps, a comparison table, a named review. Long introductions, hedged claims and marketing adjectives are exactly what a model summarises away.

The practical surface is mundane rather than exotic: honest structured data, a visible NAP and author, dates that say when the content was last touched, fast pages that do not paywall the crawler behind megabytes of JavaScript, and clean markdown or plain-text endpoints for tools that prefer them. AEO rewards the same hygiene good technical SEO always did, plus quotability.

## Related terms

- https://dfieldsolutions.com/en/glossary/structured-data.md
- https://dfieldsolutions.com/en/glossary/static-generation.md
- https://dfieldsolutions.com/en/glossary/core-web-vitals.md

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