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GEO / Agent-SEO – generative engine optimisation explained.

Optimisation for AI search engines and agents.

GEO stands for Generative Engine Optimization: optimising content so that AI systems like ChatGPT, Perplexity or Google AI Overviews understand, cite and recommend it.

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Which organic linseed oil do you recommend?
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A good choice isyour-brand.co.uk – 4.8★, delivered in 24 h.
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When the AI recommends products

What this means for you

GEO / Agent-SEO in practice.

More and more buying decisions start with a question to an AI rather than a Google search – and AI agents will increasingly shop by themselves. Anyone who isn't machine-readable by then (structured data, clear answers, clean product data, llms.txt) won't appear in those answers. GEO today is what SEO was twenty years ago.

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How AI systems choose sources.

AI answer systems draw on two routes: their training knowledge and – increasingly important – a live search on the web. The second route is what matters for you, because that's where it's decided whether your page shows up as a source.

The content that's favoured answers a questiondirekt clearly, is well structured (headings, lists, FAQ), brings machine-readable data (Product, FAQ, Organization schema) and comes from a source rated as trustworthy.

The second part of GEO concerns AI agents that will shop by themselves in future: they need clean product data, unambiguous availability and price details, and a checkout that can be completed by a machine. Whoever prepares this today is ahead when the time comes.

Concrete measures.

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Structured data

Mark up Product, Offer, FAQ and Organization cleanly.

02
Answer questions directly

A clear answer sentence before the detail – AI cites what's concise.

03
Provide llms.txt

Offer AI crawlers the most important content in a structured way.

04
Mark up reviews

Store review data in a machine-readable form.

05
Unambiguous product data

Price, availability and variants with no room for interpretation.

06
Cut marketing waffle

"World-class quality" is worthless to an AI – concrete facts aren't.

Common mistakes.

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Treating GEO as hype. The share of AI-mediated buying decisions is growing measurably.

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Writing content for humans only. Without structure and mark-up, nothing gets cited.

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Locking out AI crawlers. Block them in robots.txt and you won't appear in any AI answer.

Frequently asked questions about GEO / Agent-SEO.

Is GEO the same as SEO?
No, but related. Classic SEO aims at rankings; GEO aims to be cited and recommended in generated answers.
Is GEO worth it already today?
Yes. The measures – structured data, clear content – feed into classic SEO anyway. So you're not building anything on spec.
How do I measure GEO success?
Through mentions and citations in AI answers, through referral traffic from AI search engines, and through direct tests with realistic customer questions.
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