Retrieval & grounding
Most AI search answers are grounded in live web results, so a page must be crawlable and indexed by the engine’s search partner (e.g. Google or Bing).
Generative Engine Optimization for the AI search era
How brands get mentioned and cited in ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and Google AI Overviews — and how to measure it.
Short answer
What is GEO?
Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is the practice of increasing how often, and how accurately, AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and Google AI Overviews mention and cite your brand. It combines crawlable, fact-dense content, a consistent brand entity across the web, and third-party sources that AI systems already trust.
Key concepts
The GEO concepts worth knowing first
Understand these and most GEO advice — and most vendor pitches — becomes much easier to evaluate.
Citations vs mentions
A citation links to your page as a source; a mention names your brand in the answer. Both matter and are measured separately.
Citable content
Specific facts, original data, clear definitions and named authors are easier for a model to quote than generic marketing copy.
Brand entity
Consistent descriptions on your site, Google Business Profile, LinkedIn, Wikidata and directories help models describe you correctly.
Third-party corroboration
Reviews, comparison articles, forums and industry publications are frequently used as sources when assistants recommend vendors.
Prompt-level measurement
Track a fixed set of buyer prompts across assistants over time — answers vary, so trends matter more than single runs.
Learning path
Learn GEO in the right order
Each step builds on the one before. Work through them in sequence, or jump to the step that matches where you are.
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Learn what GEO is
Understand how generative engines retrieve, synthesise and cite sources.
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Compare SEO vs AEO vs GEO
See where each discipline fits and why they work best together.
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Practise AI search optimisation
Make your site accessible to AI crawlers and your content easy to cite.
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Check your GEO readiness
Work through our GEO checklist and AI search visibility checklist.
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Explore our GEO services
See how we track AI visibility and build the citations that move it.
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FAQ
GEO questions, answered
No. AI answers are probabilistic and change with the prompt, the model version and live search results. GEO improves the likelihood and accuracy of mentions; anyone promising a guaranteed placement is overstating what is possible.
It can stop specific bots from training on or retrieving your pages, but it also removes you from the answers those assistants give. Decide bot by bot — for example, allowing search-retrieval bots while blocking training-only bots.
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