Notes on answer engine optimization, generative visibility, and the mechanics of how AI systems read the web.https://preaeo.com/en-ushttps://preaeo.com/blog/search-console-generative-ai-report/https://preaeo.com/blog/search-console-generative-ai-report/What Google's generative AI performance report counts, what it leaves out, how its impressions aggregate, and how to use it without overreading.Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTmeasurementhttps://preaeo.com/blog/how-to-content-steps-extraction/https://preaeo.com/blog/how-to-content-steps-extraction/How to write procedures that keep their order and meaning once extracted: real ordered lists, one action per step, stated prerequisites and outcomes.Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTaeohttps://preaeo.com/blog/trust-surfaces-about-contact/https://preaeo.com/blog/trust-surfaces-about-contact/How to audit the about, contact, editorial, and policy pages behind a site, and keep organization details consistent across pages, footer, and markup.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTgeofixeshttps://preaeo.com/blog/measuring-ai-visibility/https://preaeo.com/blog/measuring-ai-visibility/A measurement stack for AI search: readiness audits, engine-reported impressions and citations, referrals, and a citation log reported as ranges.Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTmeasurementhttps://preaeo.com/blog/sitemaps-for-ai-search/https://preaeo.com/blog/sitemaps-for-ai-search/Which AI search systems document using XML sitemaps, why lastmod has to be honest, how sitemap index files work, and where llms.txt fits beside them.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTcrawlersseohttps://preaeo.com/blog/pricing-pages-answer-engines/https://preaeo.com/blog/pricing-pages-answer-engines/How to make a pricing page readable by machines: prices as text, Offer markup that matches it, real comparison tables, dated price changes, and billing FAQs.Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTaeogeohttps://preaeo.com/blog/defensible-aeo-score/https://preaeo.com/blog/defensible-aeo-score/How to design a readiness score that survives scrutiny: published signals and weights, deterministic inputs, truthful not-scored states, and honest bands.Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTmeasurementhttps://preaeo.com/blog/linking-out-trust-signal/https://preaeo.com/blog/linking-out-trust-signal/Why outbound links to primary sources help readers and make claims checkable, which rel values Google documents, and what not to link.Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTgeohttps://preaeo.com/blog/numbers-units-dates-extraction/https://preaeo.com/blog/numbers-units-dates-extraction/How to write figures, units, ranges, and dates so a lifted sentence still means the same thing: the rules, the fixes, and how to find the vague ones at scale.Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTaeogeohttps://preaeo.com/blog/scoping-and-pricing-an-aeo-audit/https://preaeo.com/blog/scoping-and-pricing-an-aeo-audit/A method for agencies and consultants: count templates instead of URLs, fix the deliverables, estimate hours from the scope, then price on your own terms.Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTpracticehttps://preaeo.com/blog/crawl-budget-ai-bots/https://preaeo.com/blog/crawl-budget-ai-bots/Handling load from several AI crawlers at once: which honor Crawl-delay, how to cache and rate-limit, and how to slow bots without blocking search crawlers.Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTcrawlershttps://preaeo.com/blog/titles-meta-descriptions-answer-surfaces/https://preaeo.com/blog/titles-meta-descriptions-answer-surfaces/What titles and meta descriptions still do once a passage is extracted, what Google documents about title links and snippets, and how to write both.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTaeoseohttps://preaeo.com/blog/schema-stack-aeo-geo/https://preaeo.com/blog/schema-stack-aeo-geo/Six schema types do most of the work for entity and answer legibility. Which ones, what each states, what Google has retired, and what to stop adding.Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTschemahttps://preaeo.com/blog/crawl-fix-recrawl/https://preaeo.com/blog/crawl-fix-recrawl/A baseline crawl, a dated change log, a like-for-like re-crawl and a diff: how to prove a fix landed, and how to keep readiness deltas apart from traffic.Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTauditingmeasurementhttps://preaeo.com/blog/query-fan-out/https://preaeo.com/blog/query-fan-out/Google documents query fan-out in AI Overviews and AI Mode: one question becomes many searches. What it means for sub-questions, page scope and internal links.Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTgeofundamentalshttps://preaeo.com/blog/aeo-for-documentation-sites/https://preaeo.com/blog/aeo-for-documentation-sites/Documentation is already question-shaped. Task titles, a prose answer before the code, versioned URLs with clean canonicals, and where llms.txt fits.Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTaeofundamentalshttps://preaeo.com/blog/prompt-tracking-limits/https://preaeo.com/blog/prompt-tracking-limits/Prompt tracking samples a probabilistic system with prompts nobody typed. What the method can support, what it can't, and how to read a report honestly.Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTmeasurementhttps://preaeo.com/blog/organization-schema-sameas/https://preaeo.com/blog/organization-schema-sameas/How to write Organization JSON-LD with a logo, sameAs links to your official profiles, and one consistent name, then check it by hand and across a site.Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTschemageohttps://preaeo.com/blog/server-logs-ai-bot-traffic/https://preaeo.com/blog/server-logs-ai-bot-traffic/Find AI crawlers in access logs, verify them against published IP ranges, read CDN and origin logs differently, and build the analysis in a spreadsheet.Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTcrawlersmeasurementhttps://preaeo.com/blog/how-to-write-a-definition/https://preaeo.com/blog/how-to-write-a-definition/The genus-differentia pattern for one-sentence definitions, the five ways definitions fail, before-and-after rewrites, and how to check them across a site.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTaeofixeshttps://preaeo.com/blog/snippet-directives-ai-features/https://preaeo.com/blog/snippet-directives-ai-features/How Google's snippet directives apply to AI Overviews and AI Mode, how they combine, where an accidental max-snippet:0 comes from, and how to audit them.Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTseocrawlershttps://preaeo.com/blog/aeo-audit-end-to-end/https://preaeo.com/blog/aeo-audit-end-to-end/One AEO and GEO audit walked from scope to re-crawl on a fictional 20-URL site: what to check first, how to triage findings, and how to prove a fix landed.Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTauditingaeohttps://preaeo.com/blog/author-bylines-person-schema/https://preaeo.com/blog/author-bylines-person-schema/A visible byline, an author page, and Person JSON-LD that agrees with both. What Google documents for author markup, and how to audit it across a site.Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTschemageohttps://preaeo.com/blog/ai-overviews-eligibility-requirements/https://preaeo.com/blog/ai-overviews-eligibility-requirements/What Google documents as the technical bar for AI Overviews and AI Mode: crawlable, indexed, snippet-eligible, and included. Plus what doesn't count.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTseocrawlershttps://preaeo.com/blog/running-aeo-geo-as-a-practice/https://preaeo.com/blog/running-aeo-geo-as-a-practice/How an SEO team adds AEO and GEO work without a new department: who owns what, the cadence, the audit loop, honest reporting, and what to stop doing.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTpracticehttps://preaeo.com/blog/product-pages-for-ai-answers/https://preaeo.com/blog/product-pages-for-ai-answers/Making product pages quotable: spec tables in HTML, a direct answer to 'is X good for Y', Product and Offer JSON-LD, variants, and honest reviews.Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTaeoschemahttps://preaeo.com/blog/cdn-waf-blocking-ai-crawlers/https://preaeo.com/blog/cdn-waf-blocking-ai-crawlers/How CDN bot-management settings and firewall rules override robots.txt for AI crawlers, how to detect it, and how to write an allow rule that holds.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTcrawlersfixeshttps://preaeo.com/blog/citability-entity-signals-geo-guide/https://preaeo.com/blog/citability-entity-signals-geo-guide/The page-side half of GEO: citable sentences, authorship, entity clarity, honest dates, trust surfaces, and linking out, mapped to signals you can check.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTgeofundamentalshttps://preaeo.com/blog/javascript-content-ai-crawlers/https://preaeo.com/blog/javascript-content-ai-crawlers/Which AI crawlers render JavaScript, which page patterns lose content on the way, and how to compare view-source against the rendered DOM on one page or a site.Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTcrawlersaeohttps://preaeo.com/blog/how-to-audit-a-site-for-aeo-and-geo/https://preaeo.com/blog/how-to-audit-a-site-for-aeo-and-geo/The full AEO and GEO audit loop: access, extraction, answer-readiness, citability and entity, then measurement. By hand, at scale, and re-crawled to prove it.Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTauditingaeogeohttps://preaeo.com/blog/boilerplate-ratio/https://preaeo.com/blog/boilerplate-ratio/Main-content extraction keeps one block of your page and drops the rest. How to measure what survives, by hand and across a site, and the markup that helps.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTaeofundamentalsauditinghttps://preaeo.com/blog/freshness-and-datemodified/https://preaeo.com/blog/freshness-and-datemodified/What datePublished and dateModified mean, what Google's date guidance asks for, why a bumped date is a trust failure, and how to audit dates across a site.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTgeoschemafixeshttps://preaeo.com/blog/llms-txt-worth-it/https://preaeo.com/blog/llms-txt-worth-it/Is llms.txt worth it? The proposal, the file format with a worked example, what is documented about who reads it, and when the afternoon pays off.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTcrawlersgeofundamentalshttps://preaeo.com/blog/prioritizing-aeo-fixes/https://preaeo.com/blog/prioritizing-aeo-fixes/A reproducible way to order AEO and GEO fixes: rate severity, page value, and effort in a spreadsheet, rank the list, then re-crawl to prove each fix landed.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTauditingfixesmeasurementhttps://preaeo.com/blog/status-codes-redirects-canonicals-ai/https://preaeo.com/blog/status-codes-redirects-canonicals-ai/How redirect chains, soft 404s, 4xx and 5xx responses, and conflicting canonicals decide which URL gets fetched, indexed, and attributed — and how to check.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTcrawlersseoauditinghttps://preaeo.com/blog/training-vs-retrieval-crawlers/https://preaeo.com/blog/training-vs-retrieval-crawlers/Should you block GPTBot? Which AI agents train, which search, which fetch for a user, what each block costs, and four robots.txt policies to copy.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTcrawlersgeofixeshttps://preaeo.com/blog/what-geobee-measures/https://preaeo.com/blog/what-geobee-measures/What GEOBee's three lenses score, why the results are local and re-runnable, and what it does not measure: citations, prompt visibility, or rankings.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTmeasurementaeogeohttps://preaeo.com/blog/what-makes-a-page-citable/https://preaeo.com/blog/what-makes-a-page-citable/What the GEO research paper tested, what it found, and where it stops — then how to write citable sentences and count them across a site.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTgeofixesauditinghttps://preaeo.com/blog/robots-txt-for-ai-bots/https://preaeo.com/blog/robots-txt-for-ai-bots/Four positions cover almost every site. The copy-paste file for each, the matching rules that quietly break them, and the maintenance the file needs.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcrawlersfixesfundamentalshttps://preaeo.com/blog/are-faq-sections-good-for-aeo/https://preaeo.com/blog/are-faq-sections-good-for-aeo/The rich result that justified most FAQ blocks is gone. What still earns one, the test for whether a question belongs in the body, and what filler costs.Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTaeoschemafundamentalshttps://preaeo.com/blog/tables-for-ai-search/https://preaeo.com/blog/tables-for-ai-search/Real markup is only half of it. What flattening does to a table lifted out of your page, and the four fixes that keep one readable on its own.Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTaeofixesfundamentalshttps://preaeo.com/blog/content-chunking-retrieval/https://preaeo.com/blog/content-chunking-retrieval/A page is retrieved in pieces of a few hundred words. What splitting does to ordinary prose, and the three edits that make a section survive it.Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTaeofundamentalsfixeshttps://preaeo.com/blog/five-checks-page-ranks-never-cited/https://preaeo.com/blog/five-checks-page-ranks-never-cited/The five faults that keep a good page out of AI answers — each with a by-hand check, a way to run it across a site with or without a terminal, and the fix.Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTaeoauditingfixeshttps://preaeo.com/blog/question-headings-vs-keyword-headings/https://preaeo.com/blog/question-headings-vs-keyword-headings/When to phrase a heading as a question, when a keyword label is still the right call, and how to check every heading on a site in one pass.Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTaeoseofixeshttps://preaeo.com/blog/what-ai-crawlers-extract/https://preaeo.com/blog/what-ai-crawlers-extract/An element-by-element inventory of what AI crawlers keep, discard, and only conditionally read — plus the parts you can exclude on purpose.Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcrawlersaeofundamentalshttps://preaeo.com/blog/answer-engine-optimization/https://preaeo.com/blog/answer-engine-optimization/What happens to a page between fetch and answer, the eight signals answer-readiness turns on, and how to check every one of them by hand and at scale.Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTaeofundamentalsfixeshttps://preaeo.com/blog/seo-aeo-geo-what-changed/https://preaeo.com/blog/seo-aeo-geo-what-changed/Three acronyms, one page. Here is what answer engines and generative search changed about optimization, and what they did not.Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTseoaeogeofundamentalshttps://preaeo.com/blog/check-ai-crawler-access/https://preaeo.com/blog/check-ai-crawler-access/Reading robots.txt tells you what you intended. Six checks that tell you what actually happens when an AI crawler requests one of your pages.Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcrawlersauditingfixeshttps://preaeo.com/blog/gptbot-vs-oai-searchbot/https://preaeo.com/blog/gptbot-vs-oai-searchbot/Every AI bot worth naming in your robots.txt, what each one actually controls, and which ones decide whether an assistant can find you at all.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcrawlersgeofundamentalshttps://preaeo.com/blog/ai-crawler-access/https://preaeo.com/blog/ai-crawler-access/Which AI bots exist, what each one actually controls, why robots.txt is only half the answer, and how to check whether assistants can reach your pages.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcrawlersgeofundamentalshttps://preaeo.com/blog/how-to-write-an-answer-block/https://preaeo.com/blog/how-to-write-an-answer-block/The highest-weighted answer-readiness signal is a passage that answers its own heading in one breath. What it is, how to write one, how to check it.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTaeofixesfundamentalshttps://preaeo.com/blog/what-answer-engines-read/https://preaeo.com/blog/what-answer-engines-read/A walk through what actually gets extracted from a page when an AI system reads it, and which parts of your HTML never make the trip.Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTaeofundamentalshttps://preaeo.com/blog/five-things-keeping-you-out-of-ai-answers/https://preaeo.com/blog/five-things-keeping-you-out-of-ai-answers/Pages that rank fine and still never get cited usually share the same five faults. Each one is fixable in an afternoon.Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTaeogeofixes