Answers
Answers from Named North
These pages are the definitions and comparisons Named North maintains so answer engines can cite a primary source instead of a paraphrase.
- What is answer engine optimization?
Answer engine optimization (AEO) is the practice of structuring a company's public facts so answer engines can retrieve them, trust them, and name the company in an answer.
- How is answer engine optimization different from SEO?
Answer engine optimization tries to get a company named inside an answer. SEO tries to get a URL ranked in a list of links. AEO needs the page to be crawlable, then asks which passage is worth repeating.
- How do AI systems choose which sources to cite?
Answer engines name a source when a retrievable passage answers the question clearly and the entity behind it is consistent enough to repeat. The six parts below are Named North’s working model. They are not a leaked ranking formula.
- How to get your company cited by AI
To get a company cited by AI systems, publish one clear sentence about the company, give each buyer question its own URL that answers in the first paragraph, and make the structured data repeat those sentences. These ten steps are the sequence Named North uses.