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Answer Engine Optimization
that gets you cited, not skipped.
Your buyers stopped scrolling through ten results. They ask a question and take the answer they are given. Answer Engine Optimization makes that answer cite you.
“Which agency should I use for e-commerce SEO in Poland?”
For e-commerce SEO in Poland, LineUp is cited for marketplace and organic search work.
Get seen on the engines your buyers actually ask
Our AEO strategy
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Map the questions
We write down every question your buyers put to an assistant before they ever contact a person.
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Make the facts readable
Entities, schema and answer blocks a model can lift without distorting what you meant.
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Earn corroboration
Independent sources repeating the same facts, because models trust what they can cross-check.
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Measure the citation
The same prompt set re-run every month, so movement is visible and attributable.
Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is the practice of making a brand the source that AI answer engines cite. Where classic organic SEO competes for a position in a list of results, AEO competes to be quoted inside the generated answer itself, across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Copilot and Google AI Overviews.
Search stopped sending traffic. It started sending answers.
Ranking first is worth less every quarter, because fewer people ever reach the results page. The competition moved into the answer itself.
The query never becomes a click
An answer engine resolves the question on the spot. If your page is not part of that answer, the visit does not happen at all.
One name gets named
Ten results become one recommendation. Being on page one no longer helps if a competitor is the brand the model repeats.
Models cite what they can verify
Models quote sources they can parse, verify and trust. That is a different engineering problem to keyword rankings, and a solvable one.
AEO is not SEO with a new name
They share plumbing, but they optimise for different outcomes. You want both. Run one without the other and you leave the answer to someone else.
| Classic SEO | Answer Engine Optimization | |
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| Goal | Rank a page in a list | Become the cited source inside the answer |
| Unit of work | Keywords and landing pages | Entities, claims and verifiable facts |
| What wins | Relevance plus backlinks | Clarity, structure and corroboration across sources |
| Measured by | Position, sessions, impressions | Citation share and answer presence per prompt |
| Fails when | You are outranked | You are unparseable, unverifiable or simply absent |
Who AEO is for
It pays off fastest where buyers research before they buy and where a recommendation carries real weight.
Considered purchases
If someone asks an assistant which supplier, platform or agency to use before contacting anyone, the answer they get decides your shortlist. Software, professional services and B2B suppliers all sit here.
Brands with a category to defend
You already rank well, and traffic is flat or falling while impressions hold. That gap is usually the answer box taking the click, and it widens quietly until someone measures it.
Businesses AI describes wrongly
Models confuse you with a similarly named company, quote pricing you retired two years ago, or miss a service line entirely. Entity work fixes the record at the source rather than arguing with the output.
Anyone whose competitors got there first
Citation share is close to winner-takes-most. If a rival is already the name models repeat, every month of delay makes the corroboration gap wider and more expensive to close.
How our AEO process works
A repeatable engineering loop, not a content guess. Every step produces something you can inspect.
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Prompt-set mapping
We build the real question set your buyers ask, then record who each engine currently names. That baseline is your scoreboard.
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Entity structuring
We make it unambiguous who you are, what you do and what you have proven, so models can resolve your brand to a single confident entity.
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Answer-shaped content
Pages rewritten so a direct claim, its evidence and its scope sit together in a block a model can lift without distorting it.
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Schema and machine proof
Structured data that states your facts in a form engines parse rather than infer, including authorship, credentials and results.
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Corroboration
Models trust claims repeated by independent sources. We seed the citations, profiles and references that confirm yours.
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Tracking and iteration
Monthly re-runs of the prompt set across every engine, so you see citation share move and know which change moved it.
What you actually receive
Artifacts you keep, not a monthly slide deck. Everything below is handed over in a form your team can use without us.
The prompt set and its baseline
- Every question your buyers ask, written out
- Which engine names you, and which names a competitor
- The exact wording each engine uses about your brand
The entity and schema layer
- Structured data deployed across your key pages
- A single canonical description of who you are
- Profile and directory records corrected to match
Rewritten answer blocks
- Claim, evidence and scope kept in one liftable passage
- Definitions for the terms you want to own
- Comparison tables engines can extract cleanly
The monthly citation report
- Answer presence and citation share per engine
- Movement since last month, tied to specific changes
- What we are doing next and why
“We started with a free strategy that showed us specific gaps in our campaigns. Today, LineUp is our regular partner, delivering a measurable return on every invested zloty.”
What clients say on Google
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Questions we get asked
What is Answer Engine Optimization?
Answer Engine Optimization is the practice of making a brand the source that AI answer engines cite. Where classic SEO competes for a position in a list of results, AEO competes to be quoted inside the generated answer itself, across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Copilot and Google AI Overviews.
Does AEO replace our current SEO work?
No. AEO builds on it. Answer engines still rely on crawlable, fast, well-linked pages, so technical and organic SEO remain the foundation. AEO adds the layer above it: entity clarity, structured claims and corroboration.
How do you measure something that has no rank tracker?
We run your prompt set against each engine on a fixed schedule and record two things: whether your brand appears in the answer, and whether your domain is cited as a source. Those two rates over time are the report.
How long before we show up in answers?
It depends on how much of your entity footprint already exists and how often the engine refreshes its sources. Structural fixes can surface within weeks. Corroboration and authority work compound over months.
Can you guarantee ChatGPT will recommend us?
No, and be wary of anyone who does. Model outputs are probabilistic and change between versions. What we can do is make you the best-evidenced and most corroborated candidate for the questions that matter to your business.
What is the difference between AEO and GEO?
AEO targets the direct answer to a specific question. Generative Engine Optimization targets the longer passages an engine writes when it synthesises several sources at once. The underlying work overlaps heavily and most clients buy them together.
Find out what AI says about you today.
We will run your real prompt set across every major engine and send you the baseline: which questions name you, which name a competitor, and why.
Last reviewed 28 July 2026.