If you’ve spent any time reading about AI search in 2026, you’ve probably noticed that nobody seems to agree on what AEO and GEO actually mean, or whether they’re different things at all. Some guides say AEO is the broader category and GEO is a subset. Others flip it. One agency published an entire post…
Most GEO measurement guides start with acronyms. AIGVR. CER. SRS. PAE. By page two you’ve forgotten what you came to learn and gained nothing actionable. This guide skips the alphabet soup. Six metrics actually tell you whether your GEO work is moving the needle. They’re ordered from easiest to track (free, manual, today) to most…
Google published something worth paying attention to in 2026. Their official documentation on AI search optimization stated directly: “optimizing for generative AI search is optimizing for the search experience, and thus still SEO.” That sentence cuts through most of the noise around generative engine optimization. Not because GEO doesn’t matter, it absolutely does, but because…
