What is AEO?
Answer Engine Optimization shapes content so search engines and voice assistants can lift a single, complete answer and present it directly to the user.
How voice assistants and answer boxes work
Assistants and answer boxes extract the shortest passage that fully resolves the query. Speed of comprehension beats depth.
Question-based content strategy
Mine 'People also ask', Reddit, and support tickets for the actual questions your audience asks — verbatim.
Featured snippet optimization
For paragraph snippets: 40-60 word answer immediately under the question heading. For list snippets: use an ordered list of parallel steps. For table snippets: use a real HTML table with clean headers.
Writing direct concise answers
Lead with the answer, then the reasoning. Cut hedging and preambles.
FAQ and Q&A schema
Add FAQPage JSON-LD for question/answer sections; add QAPage for community threads. Both make eligible content visually richer in SERPs and easier for assistants to extract.
Position zero targeting
Rewrite pages that rank 2-8 for question queries — those are the easiest snippet wins. Audit them monthly.
Key terms
- Featured snippet
- Answer Google elevates above the #1 organic result.
- Position zero
- Featured snippet slot.
- Voice search
- Spoken queries answered by assistants.
- Answer box
- SERP element containing a direct answer.
- Question keywords
- Queries phrased as questions (who, what, how).
- Conversational queries
- Natural language, often long-tail.
Put this into practice, automatically
Eternity computes an AEO score on every blog, auto-generates FAQ blocks with schema, and produces snippet-shaped 40-60 word answers under each question heading.
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