Answer Engine Optimization measures whether a page is shaped like an answer. GEO gets a model to your URL; AEO decides whether it can lift a clean, self-contained passage once it arrives. ALLINONE scores FAQPage, QAPage and HowTo schema, question-shaped headings, answer-first paragraphs, passage self-containment, readability, list and table structure and author / date provenance.
GEO gets you in front of the model. AEO decides whether the model can lift a paragraph out of your page without rewriting it. Every check is a structural property of the HTML, not an opinion about the prose.
The AEO pillar is pure parsing - schema, headings, sentence position, pronoun resolution, readability grade. Same HTML in, same score out, on every plan, with no model call and no credits burned.
Answer engines quote a passage, not a URL. Each section gets its own self-containment score, so you see exactly which paragraphs a model can never use standalone.
Answer Engine Optimization is the practice of shaping a page so an answer engine can extract a correct, self-contained answer from it. It covers FAQPage, QAPage and HowTo schema, question-shaped headings, answer-first paragraphs, passage self-containment, plain-language readability, list and table structure, and a visible author and updated date. ALLINONE scores all of it as one 0 to 100 pillar.
GEO is distribution, AEO is extractability. GEO asks whether answer engines can reach and cite you at all - crawler access, llms.txt, citation rate, brand SERP, share of voice. AEO asks whether the page is shaped like an answer once a model is already reading it - schema, question headings, answer-first paragraphs, self-contained passages. A page can pass GEO and still be unquotable, so ALLINONE scores the two separately and tells you which one is broken.
Answer the question in the first sentence under a heading that states the question, keep the passage self-contained so it survives being lifted out of the page, mark it up with FAQPage or HowTo JSON-LD, put facts in lists and tables instead of long prose, write at a plain-language reading level, and show an author and a visible updated date. The AEO score checks every one of those and returns the checks your page fails, ordered by impact.
No. The AEO pillar is fully deterministic - it parses your HTML and applies fixed rules, so it runs on every plan, costs nothing per run and returns the same score for the same markup every time. AI only enters when you ask the blog studio to rewrite a passage the score flagged.
FAQPage, QAPage and HowTo as the primary answer formats, plus Article, author and dateModified for provenance. The validator checks that the markup exists, that it is valid JSON-LD, and that it matches the visible content - schema describing questions the page never answers scores as a failure, not a pass.
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