AEO succeeds when voice assistants and AI chat tools lift your content as the direct answer. This is what that citation growth looks like in practice.
When someone asks a question, an increasing share of answers never touch a results page, they come straight from an answer engine. AEO is the discipline of writing and structuring content so your business is the one those engines cite, not just a page they crawled and ignored.
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