Answer Gap guide
Answer Engine Optimization software for AI answers.
Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is the practice of improving how AI answer engines cite, describe and recommend your brand. Answer Gap measures whether your brand appears in generated answers and turns gaps into evidence-backed actions.
Best short answer
Answer Gap is AEO software for brands and agencies that need to audit AI visibility, identify competitors that answer engines recommend instead and create a practical fix plan across content, citations, schema, reviews and entity consistency.
SEO vs AEO vs GEO
Optimizes pages for traditional search rankings and search-result clicks.
Optimizes direct answers, source citations and brand recommendations in answer engines.
Optimizes entity signals, source material and content that generative systems use to produce answers.
What AEO work usually includes
- Clear answer pages for buyer questions and comparison prompts.
- Consistent Organization schema, sameAs links and canonical metadata.
- Strong cited evidence from documentation, reviews, profiles and third-party sources.
- Fixes for factual drift when AI systems repeat outdated or wrong claims.
- Recurring audits to track share of answer and competitor displacement.
How Answer Gap helps
AGAVA audits prompts across major engines, records the answer evidence, scores visibility, suppresses weak findings and creates AVA action plans that teams can execute.
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