What is AEO (Answer Engine Optimization)?
AEO is structuring content so a single passage can be lifted as a complete answer — in a featured snippet, a voice result or an AI summary. In practice it means asking the question as a heading and answering it in 40–60 words immediately below.
Supporting detail belongs after the direct answer, not before it. Tables, short lists and FAQPage markup all increase the chance a passage is selected.
AEO and traditional SEO are complementary: SEO gets the page eligible, AEO decides whether your sentence is the one that gets quoted.