Sources
From AEO.wiki, the Answer Engine Optimization reference
AEO.wiki cites vendor documentation first, then peer-reviewed research and dated independent studies, and labels practitioner advice as practice. All were accessed on September 28, 2026; publication dates appear where each source is cited.
91 sources. See the editorial policy for how sources are chosen and research for study summaries.
Google (Search Central unless noted in the title)
- Google Assistant shutting down on Android, Wear OS in September · 9to5Google
- A reintroduction to Google’s featured snippets (Danny Sullivan) · Google (The Keyword)
- AI Mode in Google Search: Updates from Google I/O 2025 · Google (The Keyword)
- An expanded partnership with Reddit · Google (The Keyword)
- Google I/O 2025: Sundar Pichai’s opening keynote · Google (The Keyword)
- Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings (Amit Singhal) · Google (The Keyword)
- Grounding with Google Search (Gemini API) · Google AI for Developers
- Custom channel groups (includes an “AI assistants” example) · Google Analytics Help
- Guidelines for representing your business on Google · Google Business Profile Help
- Tips to improve your local ranking on Google · Google Business Profile Help
- Learn about Gemini for Home voice assistant · Google Home and Nest Help
- Maps user-generated content policy: fake engagement · Google Maps Help
- Changes to HowTo and FAQ rich results
- Our latest update to the quality rater guidelines: E-A-T gets an extra E for Experience
- Top ways to ensure your content performs well in Google’s AI experiences on Search
- AI features and your website
- Article structured data
- Build and submit a sitemap
- Control your snippets in search results
- Creating helpful, reliable, people-first content
- General structured data guidelines
- Google Search’s guidance on using generative AI content on your website
- Google image SEO best practices
- Google’s common crawlers (including Google-Extended)
- Guidance on third-party SEO tools, services, and advice
- Influencing your byline dates in Google Search
- Introduction to robots.txt
- Introduction to structured data markup in Google Search
- Latest Google Search documentation updates (changelog)
- Local business structured data
- Optimizing your website for generative AI features on Google Search
- Organization structured data
- Preferred sources
- Product structured data
- ProfilePage structured data
- Robots meta tag, data-nosnippet, and X-Robots-Tag specifications
- Spam policies for Google web search
- Speakable (Article, WebPage) structured data (BETA)
- Structured data markup that Google Search supports
- Understand JavaScript SEO basics
- Understanding page experience in Google Search results
- Video SEO best practices
- Search Quality Rater Guidelines (PDF) · Google
- Generative AI performance report (Search) · Search Console Help
- Search generative AI control · Search Console Help
- Build agent-friendly websites · web.dev (Google Chrome team)
- Web Vitals · web.dev (Google Chrome team)
Microsoft and Bing
- Introducing AI Performance in Bing Webmaster Tools Public Preview · Bing Webmaster Blog
- IndexNow protocol · IndexNow.org
- AI Performance (help documentation) · Microsoft Bing Webmaster Tools
- Bing Webmaster Guidelines · Microsoft Bing Webmaster Tools
OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity and other AI companies
- About Amazonbot (Amazonbot, Amzn-SearchBot, Amzn-User) · Amazon Developer
- Introducing Alexa+, the next generation of Alexa · Amazon
- Does Anthropic crawl data from the web, and how can site owners block the crawler? · Anthropic (Claude Help Center)
- Apple Intelligence now features Image Playground, Genmoji, Writing Tools enhancements, seamless support for ChatGPT, and visual intelligence · Apple Newsroom
- About Applebot (including Applebot-Extended) · Apple Support
- OpenAI launches ChatGPT search, competing with Google and Microsoft · CNBC
- Web search tool · Claude Platform documentation
- Content Independence Day: no AI crawl without compensation! · Cloudflare Blog
- CCBot · Common Crawl
- Meta Web Crawlers · Meta for Developers
- Publishers and Developers – FAQ · OpenAI Help Center
- Searching the web with ChatGPT · OpenAI Help Center
- Overview of OpenAI Crawlers · OpenAI Platform documentation
- What is Perplexity? · Perplexity Help Center
- Perplexity Crawlers · Perplexity documentation
- Anthropic appears to be using Brave to power web search for its Claude chatbot · TechCrunch
- The rise of the AI crawler · Vercel (with MERJ)
- The /llms.txt file (proposal by Jeremy Howard) · llmstxt.org
Research and studies
- 76% of AI Overview Citations Pull From the Top 10 · Ahrefs
- AI Overviews Reduce Clicks by 34.5% · Ahrefs
- AI brand visibility correlations (75,000 brands) · Ahrefs
- Update: AI Overviews Reduce Clicks by 58% · Ahrefs
- AI Search Has a Citation Problem (Jaźwińska and Chandrasekar) · Columbia Journalism Review, Tow Center for Digital Journalism
- Google users are less likely to click on links when an AI summary appears in the results · Pew Research Center
- Ranking Manipulation for Conversational Search Engines (Pfrommer, Bai, Gautam, Sojoudi) · Proceedings of EMNLP 2024, ACL Anthology
- GEO: Generative Engine Optimization (arXiv:2311.09735; Aggarwal, Murahari, Rajpurohit, Kalyan, Narasimhan, Deshpande) · arXiv / KDD 2024
Standards, reference and regulators
- RFC 9309: Robots Exclusion Protocol · IETF (RFC Editor)
- About Local Blitz · Local Blitz
- Local SEO services · Local Blitz
- Local Blitz: Digital Marketing Agency · LocalBlitz.wiki
- DefinedTerm and DefinedTermSet · Schema.org
- FAQPage type · Schema.org
- HowTo type · Schema.org
- Schema.org vocabulary · Schema.org
- sameAs property · Schema.org
- Simon White | The SEO Fire Fighter · SimonWhite.wiki
- Federal Trade Commission announces final rule banning fake reviews and testimonials · U.S. Federal Trade Commission
- Wikidata: Introduction · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation)
- Wikipedia: Conflict of interest · Wikipedia
- Wikipedia: Notability · Wikipedia