- GEO (Generative Engine Optimisation)
- Making your content easy for AI assistants to quote and cite. Related to SEO, but the prize is being named in the answer rather than ranked in a list of links.
- AEO (Answer Engine Optimisation)
- A near-synonym for GEO, usually emphasising direct question-and-answer formats. In practice the two terms describe the same work.
- AI visibility
- How often, and how favourably, AI assistants surface your brand when people ask questions in your category. Measured by mentions and citations, not impressions.
- llms.txt
- A plain-text file at the root of your site that gives AI systems a curated shortlist of your most important pages and what they cover — a readable index rather than a crawl directive.
- JSON-LD / schema
- Structured data embedded in a page that states plainly what the page is: an article, an FAQ, a product, an organisation. Machines read it directly instead of inferring from layout.
- Share of Voice
- Across a set of tracked prompts, the proportion of answers that cite you versus the competitors you're measured against. The headline number for AI visibility.