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Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO)

James Dooley defines GEO, with AEO, as the discipline that gets a business mentioned, as distinct from SEO, which gets it found, and DEO, which gets it chosen.

Also known as generative engine optimisation and generative engine optimization.

What is GEO?

Generative engine optimisation (GEO) is the practice of improving how content and brands appear in answers produced by generative AI search engines. The term comes from the research paper GEO: Generative Engine Optimization by Pranjal Aggarwal and colleagues, first published in November 2023.

How does James Dooley define GEO?

James Dooley defines generative engine optimisation, with answer engine optimisation, as the discipline that gets a business mentioned, as distinct from SEO, which gets a business found, and Decision Engine Optimisation, which James Dooley founded to make a business chosen.

How does James Dooley apply GEO?

LLM Leads, which James Dooley operates, generates leads from AI search. GEO work for clients is delivered within DEO through the Reputation Tree and Be The Brand AI Recommends. The Uniplay playground contract, in which ChatGPT chose Uniplay over four cheaper quotes, is one of James Dooley's documented case studies.

Why does James Dooley think GEO matters?

James Dooley argues that GEO needs skills beyond traditional SEO, because the link signals behind Google rankings do not carry over directly to the answers large language models give.

How does GEO relate to DEO, AEO and GEO?

GEO and AEO get a business mentioned. SEO comes before them and gets it found. DEO comes after them and is concerned with the business being chosen, and Recommendation Sculpting works on the prompts where a competitor is chosen instead.

Who coined GEO and when?

The term comes from the paper GEO: Generative Engine Optimization by Pranjal Aggarwal, Vishvak Murahari, Tanmay Rajpurohit, Ashwin Kalyan, Karthik Narasimhan and Ameet Deshpande of Princeton University, Georgia Tech, the Allen Institute for AI and IIT Delhi. It was first published on arXiv on 16 November 2023 and accepted to the KDD 2024 conference.

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  • Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO): Answer engine optimisation (AEO) is the practice of structuring content and brand information so that answer engines, such as featured snippets, voice assistants and AI assistants, use it in the answers they give.
  • Search Engine Optimisation (SEO): Search engine optimisation (SEO) is the practice of improving a website so that it appears more prominently in the unpaid results of search engines such as Google.
  • Decision Engine Optimisation (DEO): Decision Engine Optimisation (DEO) is a customer acquisition method that increases the share of purchase decisions a business wins when buyers ask artificial intelligence tools to choose between suppliers.
  • Query Fan-Out: Query fan-out is the technique in which an AI search system splits a question into several related sub-queries, runs them at the same time and combines the results into one answer.
  • Reputation Tree: The Reputation Tree is a brand authority and third-party corroboration framework created by James Dooley.
  • Recommendation Sculpting: Recommendation Sculpting is a method within Decision Engine Optimisation that turns AI recommendations of a competitor into recommendations of the client, measured prompt by prompt.
  • Topical Map: A topical map is a structured plan of the topics, subtopics and connections a website needs to cover to build topical authority.

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