AEO Glossary

Expert definitions, real-world examples, and practical insights for SEO professionals, marketers, and business owners working with AI-powered search optimization.

Keyword Research

The process of discovering and analyzing search terms that users enter into search engines and AI platforms, guiding content strategy to match audience intent and maximize visibility.

Marketing Updated 11/29/2025

Knowledge Cutoff

The date beyond which a language model has no training data, meaning it cannot provide information about events or content published after that date without retrieval augmentation.

AI Updated 2/5/2026

Knowledge Graph

A structured database of interconnected entities, facts, and relationships that AI systems and search engines use to understand context, verify information, and generate accurate responses.

AI Updated 12/15/2025

Large Language Model (LLM)

An AI model trained on vast amounts of text data that can understand and generate human-like text, powering modern answer engines.

AI Updated 10/9/2025

LLMO (Large Language Model Optimization)

The practice of optimizing content specifically to appear in responses generated by large language models, an emerging term synonymous with AEO and GEO.

AEO Updated 2/5/2026

Meta Description

A brief HTML attribute that summarizes a webpage's content, appearing below the page title in search results and influencing click-through rates and user expectations.

SEO Updated 12/19/2025

Model Temperature

A parameter that controls the randomness and creativity of an AI model's outputs, with lower temperatures producing more deterministic, factual responses and higher temperatures producing more varied, creative ones.

AI Updated 2/5/2026

Multi-Engine Optimization

The strategy of optimizing content to perform across multiple AI answer engines simultaneously rather than targeting a single platform.

AEO Updated 2/5/2026

Multimodal AI

AI systems that can process and generate multiple types of data such as text, images, audio, and video within a single model.

AI Updated 2/5/2026

Natural Language Processing (NLP)

The branch of AI that enables computers to understand, interpret, and generate human language in useful ways.

AI Updated 2/5/2026

Organic CTR

The percentage of users who click on a search result after seeing it in organic (non-paid) search results, influenced by meta titles, descriptions, and rich snippets.

Analytics Updated 2/5/2026

Page Speed

The time it takes for a webpage to fully load and become interactive, a critical ranking factor for search engines and a key trust signal for AI systems evaluating source quality.

SEO Updated 11/29/2025

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