AEO
Answer Engine Notes notes about AEO
Does AI Search Language Support Include Searching, Answers, and Sources?
A supported-language claim may cover asking a question, receiving an answer or filtering results, but those are separate capabilities.
Google AI Mode Features: What Publishers Can and Cannot Infer
AI Mode supports detailed, multimodal questions, follow-ups and web links, but those features do not predict which publisher pages will receive visits.
Can AI Search Access Your PDF? Checks to Make Before Interpreting a Missing Citation
Check the exact PDF, its readable text and the saved AI answer separately before drawing conclusions from a missing citation.
Does Google’s nosnippet Make a Page Ineligible for AI Overviews?
Nosnippet restricts a page’s content from direct use in Google AI Overviews, but it also removes the page’s ordinary Search text snippet.
What Structured Data Tells AI Search—and What It Cannot Prove
Article markup can label visible page facts for machines, but it cannot verify those facts or secure a place in an AI answer.
How Do Answer Engines Choose Sources—and What Can Publishers Actually Know?
A citation shows which source an answer attributes material to, but the selection decision behind it remains largely hidden.
How Publishers Can Track Recorded Answer-Engine Referrals and Conversions
Build a reviewed referral-session report, connect it to an existing conversion event, and keep visits separate from answer visibility.
Query Fan-Out in AI Search: What Publishers Can Actually Investigate
Compare recorded AI answers with related questions you test yourself, without treating source overlap as evidence of hidden searches.
How to Check AI Crawler Access Beyond Your Homepage
Check representative URLs one by one, keeping robots.txt policy, observed server responses and AI-search visibility separate.
How to Investigate Duplicate Pages in AI Search Citations
Compare the pages behind an unexpected citation, fix overlap according to each page’s purpose, and keep indexing findings separate from AI-answer observations.
