AEO
Structuring clear, useful information so answer engines can understand and reference your expertise.
Understand the language behind your website, search visibility and advertising. Simple definitions. Clearer conversations.
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Structuring clear, useful information so answer engines can understand and reference your expertise.
How discoverable a business is in AI-generated answers. Mentions and citations can vary by platform, question and time.
Links pointing to your website from another site. Their relevance and quality matter more than a raw link count.
An action you choose to measure, such as a genuine enquiry, phone call, booking or purchase.
The percentage of visits or interactions that complete a defined action. The denominator and reporting period should always be clear.
The average advertising cost for each click, calculated as spend divided by clicks.
The percentage of impressions that lead to a click, calculated as clicks divided by impressions, multiplied by 100.
The business information shown across Google Search and Maps, including your location, hours and contact details.
Making business information and expert content easier for generative AI systems to understand and cite. Citations cannot be guaranteed.
The number of times an ad or search result is displayed within the reporting system’s measurement rules.
The process through which a search engine stores and organises information about a page so it may appear in results.
A search expression used to understand demand and plan useful pages. Search intent matters alongside volume.
The page a visitor arrives on, often from a campaign, with content and a next action matched to their reason for visiting.
Improving the information and pages that help nearby customers discover a business through location-based searches.
Visits attributed to unpaid search listings. These are reported separately from paid advertising traffic.
An advertising model where the advertiser pays for clicks. Results depend on targeting, creative, landing pages and measurement.
A potential customer whose needs, location and other agreed criteria match the customers your business can serve.
Revenue attributed to ads divided by advertising spend. It is a revenue measure and does not account for every business cost.
Machine-readable information that helps search engines understand page content. Markup does not guarantee a particular search appearance.
What a person wants to do when searching: learn, compare, find a location or take an action.
Improving a website’s technical foundations, content and credibility to support its visibility in unpaid search results.
Tags added to links so analytics tools can identify campaign source, medium and other attribution details.
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