Glossary
Answer Engine Optimisation is the practice of structuring content so that search and AI systems can extract it directly as the answer to a question: in featured snippets, direct answers and AI Overviews.
A system finds a passage on your page that answers the query and lifts it, usually with attribution. That only works if the passage stands alone: complete sentences, no pronouns pointing back at a heading, and the answer stated before any elaboration.
A large hero, a value proposition and three benefit statements push the actual answer past the point where extraction typically looks. The page may rank perfectly well and still never be quoted.
Put the definition first. Use headings that match the question a person would type. Write FAQ answers that make sense pasted into a chat window with no surrounding page. Use tables for comparable data, because prose comparisons cannot be extracted cleanly.
Answer Engine Optimisation is the practice of structuring content so that search and AI systems can extract it directly as the answer to a question: in featured snippets, direct answers and AI Overviews.
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