SEO Aeo Best Practices

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2name: seo-aeo-best-practices
3description: SEO and AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) best practices including EEAT principles, structured data, and technical SEO. Use when implementing metadata, sitemaps, structured data, or optimizing content for search engines and AI assistants.
4license: MIT
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6  author: sanity
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9 
10# SEO & AEO Best Practices
11 
12Principles for optimizing content for both traditional search engines (SEO) and AI-powered answer engines (AEO). Includes Google's EEAT guidelines and structured data implementation.
13 
14## When to Apply
15 
16Reference these guidelines when:
17- Implementing metadata and Open Graph tags
18- Creating sitemaps and robots.txt
19- Adding JSON-LD structured data
20- Optimizing content for featured snippets
21- Preparing content for AI assistants (ChatGPT, Perplexity, etc.)
22- Evaluating content quality using EEAT principles
23 
24## Core Concepts
25 
26### SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
27Optimizing content to rank well in traditional search results (Google, Bing).
28 
29### AEO (Answer Engine Optimization)
30Optimizing content to be selected as authoritative answers by AI systems.
31 
32### EEAT (Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness)
33Google's framework for evaluating content quality.
34 
35## Resources
36 
37See `resources/` for detailed guidance:
38- `resources/eeat-principles.md` — EEAT implementation and author schema
39- `resources/structured-data.md` — JSON-LD patterns (Article, FAQ, Breadcrumb, Product)
40- `resources/technical-seo.md` — Technical SEO checklist (metadata, sitemaps, hreflang, robots.txt)
41- `resources/aeo-considerations.md` — AI/AEO considerations (AI Overviews, crawler management)
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