seo-aeo-best-practices

Principles for optimizing content for both traditional search engines (SEO) and AI-powered answer engines (AEO). Includes Google's EEAT guidelines and structured data implementation. Reference these guidelines when: Optimizing content to rank well in traditional search results (Google, Bing). Optimizing content to be selected as authoritative answers by AI systems. Google's framework for evaluating content quality. Start with the one resource that matches the task, such as technical SEO, structured data, EEAT, or AI-answer readiness. See resources/ for detailed guidance: - Implementing metadata and Open Graph tags - Creating sitemaps and robots.txt - Adding JSON-LD structured data - Optimizing content for featured snippets - Preparing content for AI assistants (ChatGPT, Perplexity, etc.) - Evaluating content quality using EEAT principles - resources/eeat-principles.md — EEAT implementation and author schema - resources/structured-data.md — JSON-LD patterns (Article, FAQ, Breadcrumb, Product) - resources/technical-seo.md — Technical SEO checklist (metadata, sitemaps, hreflang, robots.txt) - resources/aeo-considerations.md — AI/AEO considerations (AI Overviews, crawler management)