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16 terms

Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)
The practice of making a brand easy for AI answer engines to find, understand and trust, so it is mentioned, cited or recommended in generated answers.
Answer engine
A system that responds to a question with a synthesised answer rather than a list of links — for example ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini or Google AI Overviews.
AI Overviews
AI-generated summaries that appear above Google's traditional results for some searches, with links to the pages they draw from.
Prompt
The question or instruction a person types into an AI assistant. In GEO, the set of prompts buyers realistically ask is what visibility is measured against.
Prompt visibility
The share of tracked prompts where a brand appears in the answer at all.
Share of answer
How often a brand is mentioned relative to competitors across a set of answers — the AI-search counterpart to share of voice.
Citation
A link or named source an answer engine shows to support its answer. Being cited usually signals that a page was used to build the response.
Mention
When an answer names a brand without necessarily linking to it.
Entity
A uniquely identifiable thing — a business, person, product or place — that search and AI systems can recognise and connect facts to.
Entity consistency
Whether a brand's name, services, location, hours and other facts match everywhere it appears online. Inconsistency makes brands harder to resolve and recommend.
Structured data (schema)
Machine-readable markup, usually JSON-LD using schema.org vocabulary, that states facts about a page or business explicitly.
Retrievability
How easily AI crawlers and retrieval systems can access, render and parse a site's content.
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
A technique where a model looks up relevant documents at answer time and uses them to ground its response — one reason fresh, accessible content matters.
AI crawler
An automated agent operated by an AI company to fetch web content, governed in part by a site's robots.txt rules.
Answer-first content
Pages structured to lead with a direct, quotable answer to a specific question, followed by detail and evidence.
Visibility audit
A dated baseline of how a brand appears across answer engines for a defined set of prompts, including competitors and the sources cited.

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