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Generative Engine Optimization, GEO, is the practice of becoming the source that AI systems quote. SEO competed for a position in a list of links. GEO competes for a sentence inside a generated answer. ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews do not hand out ten blue links, they synthesise one answer and credit a handful of sources. If your brand is not part of that synthesis, you are invisible to a fast growing share of buyers.
Search used to be a directory. You typed a keyword, you got a list, you chose. AI search behaves like an editor instead. It reads the available material, decides what holds up and returns a finished answer, often without a click. That shifts the job from ranking a page to being quotable. A page that sits in fourth position but answers the question cleanly in its first paragraph gets cited more often than a page that ranks first and buries the answer under a brand story.
It is not keyword stuffing under a new name, and it is not a trick. There is no tag you add to appear in ChatGPT. The systems reward the best available answer, which makes GEO an editorial discipline before it is a technical one: publish clearer, more specific and more verifiable material than anyone else in your category, and keep publishing it.
Begin with the twenty questions your buyers actually ask before they enquire. Answer each one properly, on its own page, in your own voice. Then check what the systems currently say about your category and which names they repeat. The gap between what you know and what the machines say is your roadmap.
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