Glossary

Answer engine optimization (AEO)

Answer engine optimization (AEO) is making content easy for AI assistants to find, understand and cite when they answer a question.

Also called

AEOgenerative engine optimizationGEOAI visibility

Answer engines — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google's AI answers — quote pages that state facts plainly, are readable without running scripts, and are open to their crawlers. Clear definitions, structured data, llms.txt and Markdown versions of pages all help.

MakerRadar is built for it: every listing has a plain-text twin, an FAQ in its structured data and a place in llms.txt.

Related terms

Structured dataStructured data is machine-readable information about a page — what it is, who made it, its rating — usually written as JSON-LD with schema.org types.
llms.txtllms.txt is a Markdown file at a site's root that tells AI models what the site is and links its key pages, in a form they read easily.
MCP (Model Context Protocol)MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open standard for connecting AI assistants to tools and data, so an agent can call a service directly.

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