AEO Glossary

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

SERP (Search Engine Results Page)

The page displayed by a search engine in response to a user's query, containing organic results, paid ads, and various features like featured snippets and knowledge panels.

SEO Updated 12/19/2025

Share of Voice (AI)

The percentage of AI-generated answers in a given topic or category that reference or cite a specific brand, used to measure AI search visibility relative to competitors.

Analytics Updated 2/5/2026

Sitemap

An XML file that lists all important URLs on a website, helping search engines and AI crawlers discover and prioritize content for indexing.

SEO Updated 2/5/2026

Source Attribution

The practice of AI systems crediting and linking to the original sources of information used to generate responses, providing transparency and allowing users to verify claims.

AI Updated 11/17/2025

Structured Data

Machine-readable code markup added to web pages that explicitly describes the content's meaning, relationships, and attributes, helping search engines and AI systems better understand and categorize information.

SEO Updated 12/15/2025

Synthetic Data

Artificially generated data created by AI models to supplement or replace real-world data for training purposes, increasingly used to expand training datasets.

AI Updated 2/5/2026

Tokenization

The process of breaking text into smaller units (tokens) that a language model can process, typically words, subwords, or characters.

AI Updated 2/5/2026

Topic Cluster

A content strategy that groups related pages around a central pillar page, with internal links connecting them, to demonstrate topical depth and authority.

Marketing Updated 2/5/2026

Topical Authority

The demonstrated expertise and comprehensive coverage of a specific subject area that signals to search engines and AI systems that a website is a trusted, authoritative source on that topic.

SEO Updated 10/9/2025

Training Data

The large collection of text, images, and other content used to teach AI models how to understand language, generate responses, and make predictions. They form the knowledge foundation of LLMs.

AI Updated 12/19/2025

Transformer Architecture

The neural network architecture that powers modern LLMs, using self-attention mechanisms to process text in parallel and understand context.

AI Updated 2/5/2026

User Experience (UX)

The overall quality of a user's interaction with a website or digital product, encompassing usability, accessibility, performance, and satisfaction. UX has increasingly become important for both SEO rankings and AI recommendations.

Marketing Updated 12/19/2025

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