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ChatGPTcaptured 2026-05-14
"What is Answer Engine Optimization?"
ChatGPT (GPT-4o) returned a definition of AEO that closely mirrors the definition published on our glossary page, and included the page in its cited sources.
What the engine said
"Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is the practice of structuring web content so that AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews quote it directly in their generated responses."
Source cited: internetmonkeez.com/glossary/aeo
Takeaway
Short, definition-first paragraphs marked up with DefinedTerm schema are quoted verbatim by ChatGPT far more often than long-form intros.