Brand Mention
An instance where an AI system references, recommends, or discusses a specific brand, product, or company in its generated response, whether with or without a direct link.
Marketing
Updated 10/9/2025
AEO Glossary
Expert definitions, real-world examples, and practical insights for SEO professionals, marketers, and business owners working with AI-powered search optimization.
Canonical Tags
HTML elements that specify the preferred version of a webpage when duplicate or similar content exists across multiple URLs, helping search engines and AI systems avoid content confusion.
SEO
Updated 11/29/2025
Chunking (Content)
The process of breaking long documents into smaller, semantically meaningful segments for processing by AI retrieval systems, directly affecting how well AI can find and cite specific information.
AI
Updated 2/5/2026
Citability
The degree to which content is structured and presented in a way that AI engines can easily extract, attribute, and cite it in their generated responses.
AEO
Updated 2/5/2026
Citation Rate
The frequency with which AI systems reference, quote, or cite a specific piece of content, brand, or domain when generating responses to user queries.
Analytics
Updated 12/15/2025
Click-Through Rate (CTR)
The percentage of users who click on a link after seeing it in search results, AI responses, or other digital placements—a key metric for measuring content visibility and relevance.
Analytics
Updated 10/13/2025
Content Authority
The perceived expertise, trustworthiness, and credibility of content and its creator, which influences how AI systems prioritize and cite sources in generated responses.
AEO
Updated 10/9/2025
Content Decay
The gradual decline in a page's search performance and AI citation rate over time as content becomes outdated, competitors publish fresher material, or search algorithms evolve.
Marketing
Updated 2/5/2026
Content Freshness
The recency and up-to-date nature of web content, a ranking signal used by both traditional search engines and AI systems to determine information relevance and accuracy.
SEO
Updated 11/17/2025
Content Freshness Signals
The specific indicators that AI and search engines use to determine how current, updated, and relevant a piece of content is relative to the user's query and the topic's rate of change.
AEO
Updated 2/5/2026
Content Gap Analysis
The process of identifying topics, questions, and keywords that competitors rank for but your website doesn't, revealing opportunities for new content creation.
Marketing
Updated 2/5/2026
Content Performance Score
A composite metric that evaluates how well a piece of content performs across multiple dimensions including search rankings, AI citations, engagement, and conversions.
Analytics
Updated 2/5/2026
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