Glossary
Plain-English definitions of the AI SEO / GEO terms worth knowing — each answered in a sentence, with why it matters.
- AEO (Answer Engine Optimization)
- AI crawlers
- AI share of voice
- Answer engine
- Applebot-Extended
- Bytespider
- Canonical URL
- CCBot
- ChatGPT-User
- ClaudeBot
- Crawl budget
- GEO (Generative Engine Optimization)
- Google AI Mode
- Google AI Overviews
- Google-Extended
- GPTBot
- IndexNow
- llms.txt
- OAI-SearchBot
- PerplexityBot
- Query Fan-Out
- RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
- Schema markup
- The Great Decoupling