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THE NEW SEARCH STACK • Beyond 10 Blue Links

GEO, AEO, AIO & LLMO

Where each term came from, what it is used to mean, and which claims survive a check against what the platforms actually publish. Google uses none of these acronyms itself.

INTERACTIVE HIERARCHY MAP Click any circle or node to inspect details
AIO • USED THREE DIFFERENT WAYS. ASK WHICH ONE A PROPOSAL MEANS SEO (Search Engine Optimization) • THE DATA BEDROCK Crawlability, Technical Indexing, High Domain Authority & Core Web Vitals AEO Answer Engine Optimization • Featured Snippets • Direct Q&A Blocks • Voice Search (Siri/Alexa) • Conversational Bots GEO Generative Engine Optimization • Google AI Overviews • Perplexity Citations • Multi-Source RAG • Synthetic Recommendations WHERE THEY OVERLAP Direct Answer + Citation Source LLMO (LLM Optimization) Training data. Mechanisms not documented by any provider
💡 Interactive Concept Map One way to picture how the terms relate. Not a documented architecture.

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