AEO Knowledge Base

Everything you need to understand the 10 criteria that determine how visible your website is to AI search engines.

1

llms.txt File

A standardized text file that gives AI assistants a structured summary of your website, similar to how robots.txt guides search engine crawlers.

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2

Schema.org Structured Data & JSON-LD

Machine-readable metadata embedded in your HTML that helps search engines and AI systems understand your content's meaning, not just its text.

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3

Q&A Content Format

Structuring your content as questions and answers so AI systems can directly extract and cite your expertise in response to user queries.

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4

Clean, Crawlable HTML

Ensuring your page content is accessible in the raw HTML source, not hidden behind JavaScript rendering, accordions, or dynamic loading.

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5

Entity Authority & E-E-A-T

Establishing your website as a recognized, authoritative entity that AI systems can trust, cite, and recommend to users.

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6

robots.txt for AI Crawlers

Configuring your robots.txt file to explicitly manage how AI systems like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google Gemini access and use your content.

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7

Comprehensive FAQ Sections

Building FAQ pages and sections that serve as rich, AI-extractable knowledge bases, complete with schema markup and real answers.

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8

Original Data & Expert Content

Creating proprietary data, first-hand analysis, and expert-level content that AI systems prioritize for citation over generic information.

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9

Internal Linking Architecture

Building a web of internal links that helps AI systems understand your content hierarchy, topic relationships, and site authority structure.

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10

Semantic HTML5 & Accessibility

Using proper HTML5 elements and accessibility attributes so AI systems can understand your content's structure, hierarchy, and meaning.

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