Answer-Engine-Optimization

Why ChatGPT Never Cites Your Site (And What Reddit Actually Found That Works) TL;DR Getting cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Claude isn’t just an SEO problem — it’s an entirely different game called Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), and most content marketers don’t know the rules yet. Reddit’s content marketing community is openly frustrated: optimized sites with solid backlinks still get ignored while competitors show up effortlessly. The biggest culprit, at least for one major segment of creators, is JavaScript-heavy site frameworks that AI crawlers literally cannot read. There are free fixes, but awareness remains shockingly low. And meanwhile, the broader AI discoverability conversation is getting messy, tangled up with debates about AI reliability, safety policy, and who these systems actually serve. ...

I don’t have permission to fetch the Reddit URL, and the source package’s summary field is empty — so I only have the post title and metadata to work from. Before I write the article, I want to flag this clearly: the source package contains no actual content (the summary is '', there are no YouTube videos, no competitor data, no opinions extracted). I only have: Post title: “How do you actually get cited by chatgpt or other AIs in their responses” Community: r/content_marketing 17 comments, score 8 Writing a 1500–2000 word article based solely on a post title would require me to invent information — which violates your strict rules (“DO NOT invent prices, versions, or features”). ...

Why Your Blog Gets Ignored by Google AI Overviews (And What to Actually Do About It) TL;DR Google’s AI Overviews are reshaping how search traffic flows — and most blogs are being left out entirely. A growing conversation in the content marketing community is asking why certain sites get cited while others don’t. The short answer: AI Overviews favor sources that signal authority, structure, and trustworthiness in very specific ways. If your blog isn’t showing up, it’s likely a combination of E-E-A-T gaps, structural issues, and topic framing problems — all of which are fixable. ...