Editorial policy
AEO.wiki pages are researched from primary sources, drafted with the help of AI tools, and reviewed by a person before publication. Every factual claim links to a source with a date where one exists. Evidence labels separate vendor documentation from research and practice. The site carries no ads, affiliate links or tracking.
Source hierarchy
- Vendor documentation: Google Search Central, Bing Webmaster Guidelines, OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity and other crawler and help pages.
- Peer-reviewed or methodologically transparent research (for example the GEO paper, Pew Research Center).
- Credible reporting from established outlets, labeled as reporting when a vendor has not confirmed it.
- Industry studies with a stated method and date, with caveats.
We do not cite anonymous claims, screenshots without provenance, or statistics without a traceable source and date.
Evidence labels
| Label | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Vendor-documented | Stated in the engine’s own documentation |
| Independent study | Supported by independent research or a published study |
| Practitioner practice | Common practitioner practice without direct vendor confirmation |
| Not supported | Contradicted by documentation or evidence |
AI assistance
We use AI tools to help research, organize and draft pages. A person checks every claim against its source, edits the text and decides what is published. AI tools are never cited as sources. This follows Google’s guidance that generative AI can help research and structure original content but should not be used to mass-produce pages without value.[1]
Reviews and updates
Every page shows its published and last-updated dates, and the dateModified value in its structured data matches the visible date. Fast-moving pages (engines, crawlers, structured data) are reviewed at least quarterly and whenever a vendor changes its documentation.
Independence and disclosure
- Published by Local Blitz (see About), which sells SEO and local SEO services. Links to Local Blitz are disclosed as such.
- No advertising, sponsored content, affiliate links or paid placements. Tools are listed on merit (tools and resources).
- No analytics, cookies or trackers (privacy).
Corrections
Report errors through the contact page with a link to a primary source. Substantive corrections are made promptly and reflected in the page’s updated date and in the revision history below.
Revision history
Revisions of AEO.wiki, newest first. Times are Central Time (CT).
- 15:58, 31 October 2026 AEO.wiki editorial team All pages (Week 1 depth update. Added Zero-click search, Featured snippets and People Also Ask, AI crawler user agents. Deepened AEO vs SEO, GEO, LLMO, Claude, E-E-A-T, Freshness, AI traffic in GA4, Schema examples, Voice assistants, Multimodal content with sections drawn from primary documentation. Merged the author and publisher pages into About (the old addresses now redirect there), replaced named bylines with editorial-team credit, and removed the author and publisher details from pages other than About and this policy. Reworded the disclosures on Tools & resources and Local AEO, and updated Contact, FAQ, entity SEO and structured data to match. Added the new sources to Sources.)
- 16:59, 29 October 2026 Simon White / Local Blitz All pages (Consolidated and deepened the site. Merged the three glossary pages into one glossary and this revision history into the editorial policy; set contents and privacy to noindex; simplified the footer; reduced structured data to this site’s own publisher and author entities; showed published and updated dates on every page. Added sourced sections to What is AEO?, Research, AEO checklist, robots.txt builder, Fan-out planner, Google AI Overviews & AI Mode, AI crawlers & robots.txt and Structured data, and added new primary sources to Sources.)
- 16:53, 30 September 2026 Simon White / Local Blitz AEO research (Added 12 studies to research, led by two 2026 randomized trials on AI Overviews and AI Mode, with method, date and caveats for each. Updated the AI Overview citation figure to Ahrefs’ 38% (March 2026), keeping 76% as historical; qualified the GEO findings with the ACL 2026 FeatGEO replication; marked older studies as historical, dated or superseded. Added short cited mentions to Google AI Overviews, how answer engines work, measuring AI visibility, citations, engine comparison, ChatGPT search, Gemini, llms.txt, myths, content structure, third-party presence and sources. Revision times on this page are now shown in Central Time.)
- 08:18, 29 September 2026 Simon White / Local Blitz Entity SEO (Minor edits to the Entity SEO and Local Blitz pages.)
- 12:11, 28 September 2026 Simon White / Local Blitz All pages (Added a left sidebar listing every page by section, with the current page highlighted and a menu button on small screens, and a Contents page. Navigation only; article text, URLs and structured data unchanged.)
- 11:50, 28 September 2026 Simon White / Local Blitz All pages (Moved to a shared wiki theme: top bar, page tabs, infoboxes, contents box, references and navigation box. Layout and styling only; article text, URLs and structured data unchanged. Added this revision history page.)
- 11:36, 28 September 2026 Simon White / Local Blitz All pages (Site published: 46 articles and reference pages, plus the robots.txt builder, fan-out planner, checklist CSV and site search)
Frequently asked questions
Is AEO.wiki written by AI?
AI tools help with research and drafting. A person reviews every page and checks each claim against its source before publication.
Does AEO.wiki accept sponsored content?
No. There are no ads, sponsored posts or affiliate links.
See also
References
Pages accessed September 28, 2026 unless a date is given. See all sources and our editorial policy.
- ^ "Google Search’s guidance on using generative AI content on your website". Google Search Central.