by Alice03
"SEO Fundamentals: How Pages Get Found" covered how a page gets crawled and ranked. This is the 2026 half of the same subject — how a page earns a citation inside an AI-generated answer instead of a blue link on a results page.
GEO is the practice of shaping content so a generative answer engine — ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and the AI panel now sitting on top of Google itself — is more likely to read it, trust it, and quote it inside the answer it writes. The target moved from a ranked list of links to a single synthesized paragraph, and that changes what winning looks like.
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