What is Answer Engine optimization (AEO), and how is it different from traditional SEO?

Title: What is Answer Engine optimization (AEO), and how is it different from traditional SEO?

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Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is a specific digital marketing strategy that focuses on delivering content as the primary, definitive answer provided by AI driven platforms such as Google’s AI Overviews, voice assistants and chat bots. In contrast to traditional SEO which ranks a web site within search results to get organic traffic, AEO seeks to be cited or summarily recited by an AI interface as a trusted source to pro