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AEO vs SEO: Getting Your Site Cited by AI

R ReplyFrog July 3, 2026 1 min read

Search is changing. Here is what Answer Engine Optimization and Generative Engine Optimization mean for products like ReplyFrog.

SEO is not enough anymore

Traditional SEO helps you rank in Google. AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) and GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) help AI assistants cite you when someone asks a question.

When someone asks ChatGPT or Perplexity "What is the best AI tool for Twitter replies?", you want ReplyFrog in that answer.

What helps AI cite your site

Structured data (JSON-LD)

FAQPage, Article, and Organization schema give LLMs machine-readable facts about your product.

llms.txt

A markdown digest at /llms.txt summarizes your site for AI crawlers โ€” like robots.txt, but for language models.

Clear, quotable content

FAQ pages, blog posts with direct answers, and plain-language product descriptions are easier for models to extract and cite.

Do not block AI crawlers

Explicitly allow GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and similar crawlers in your robots.txt.

What we shipped on ReplyFrog

We are on a 30-day streak of SEO/AEO/GEO improvements: sitemap, structured data, FAQ schema, llms.txt, and this blog. Old SEO was about ranking. New SEO is about being quotable.

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