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Answer Engine Optimisation

Entry #522 / 700 · Chapter 11 · 11.3 GEO vs SEO: differences and overlaps · Read in Chinese →
In one sentence

Structuring content into self-contained answer blocks that can be lifted directly by featured snippets, voice assistants, and generated summaries.

Analogy Mental model

Filleting the fish in the kitchen before serving it, so the guest, or the algorithm, can take a bite without meeting a bone.

In practice What you actually do

The standard form is a fifty-word capsule: directly beneath any question-shaped heading, the first paragraph states a complete, standalone answer with the number or the definition in it, and only then does the second paragraph elaborate. No preamble, no restating the question.

Where people get burned Pitfalls

The habitual opening that warms up before answering is exactly what gets skipped. A heading asking what installation costs should be followed immediately by the range, the system size, and the conditions, not by a sentence about how many homeowners wonder about budgets.

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