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GEO

Generative engine optimisation: building the external corroboration and entity clarity a generative system needs before it will state a fact about a brand. Where AEO is about what your pages say, GEO is about whether anyone else confirms it.

Also written Generative engine optimization. Atlas writes British English; the definition is the same.

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Why it matters

The consequence, not the concept

A generative system will not assert something about a brand on the brand’s word alone. That makes GEO the one search discipline you cannot complete on your own site, and the reason a site can be technically flawless and still be described wrongly.

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Where Atlas works on this

2 routes
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Build visibility

Seven questions

A definition is only worth publishing if it is true of your site too. Atlas reads the site before the first conversation.

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