{"id":40,"date":"2026-04-17T14:59:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T19:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tampawebtech.com\/news\/?page_id=40"},"modified":"2026-04-22T12:23:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:23:33","slug":"aeo-geo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tampawebtech.com\/news\/aeo-geo\/","title":{"rendered":"AEO \/ GEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list is-grid columns-3 has-dates has-author wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/tampawebtech.com\/news\/what-actually-wins-in-perplexity-a-study-of-1195-citations\/\">What actually wins in Perplexity: a study of 1,195 citations<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by David Chamberlain<\/div><time datetime=\"2026-04-23T19:51:13-05:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">April 23, 2026<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Perplexity citations by source type Share of 1,195 citations across six industry verticals. Bars stack to 100%. 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% Industrial Staffing n=253 79% 8% Vertical SaaS n=219 67% 15% 14% Logistics &amp; Freight n=190 50% 14% 20% 13% Home Services (Consumer) n=232 49% 10% 35% Professional Services n=132 39% 8% 29% 22%\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tampawebtech.com\/news\/what-actually-wins-in-perplexity-a-study-of-1195-citations\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: What actually wins in Perplexity: a study of 1,195 citations<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/tampawebtech.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/aeo-vs-geo-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Comparison of AI-generated answers strategies\" style=\"\" \/><\/div><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/tampawebtech.com\/news\/geo-is-not-aeo-heres-what-were-still-figuring-out\/\">GEO Is Not AEO. Here&#8217;s What We&#8217;re Still Figuring Out.<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by David Chamberlain<\/div><time datetime=\"2026-04-22T10:05:41-05:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">April 22, 2026<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">TWT News \u2014 GEO GEO Is Not AEO. Here&#8217;s What We&#8217;re Still Figuring Out. Generative Engine Optimization and Answer Engine Optimization get used interchangeably. They shouldn&#8217;t be. One is about being cited. The other is about being part of the generated answer itself \u2014 and the strategies are different enough to matter. Tampa Web Technologies\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tampawebtech.com\/news\/geo-is-not-aeo-heres-what-were-still-figuring-out\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: GEO Is Not AEO. Here&#8217;s What We&#8217;re Still Figuring Out.<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/tampawebtech.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/number-1-in-google-not-cited-by-ai-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"\" \/><\/div><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/tampawebtech.com\/news\/the-two-aeo-lanes-why-perplexity-and-gemini-are-more-alike-than-different-2\/\">The Two AEO Lanes: Why Perplexity and Gemini Are More Alike Than Different<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by David Chamberlain<\/div><time datetime=\"2026-04-22T09:16:03-05:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">April 22, 2026<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">TWT News \u2014 AEO Analysis The Two AEO Lanes: Why Perplexity and Gemini Are More Alike Than Different The industry talks about three AI engines as three separate playbooks. The data says otherwise. Perplexity and Gemini share roughly 80% of their citation philosophy. For most brands, the real AEO planning question is not three-way \u2014\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tampawebtech.com\/news\/the-two-aeo-lanes-why-perplexity-and-gemini-are-more-alike-than-different-2\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: The Two AEO Lanes: Why Perplexity and Gemini Are More Alike Than Different<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/tampawebtech.com\/news\/the-two-aeo-lanes-why-perplexity-and-gemini-are-more-alike-than-different\/\">The Two AEO Lanes: Why Perplexity and Gemini Are More Alike Than Different<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by David Chamberlain<\/div><time datetime=\"2026-04-22T08:20:33-05:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">April 22, 2026<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">TWT News \u2014 AEO Analysis The Two AEO Lanes: Why Perplexity and Gemini Are More Alike Than Different The industry talks about three AI engines as three separate playbooks. The data says otherwise. Perplexity and Gemini share roughly 80% of their citation philosophy. For most brands, the real AEO planning question is not three-way \u2014\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tampawebtech.com\/news\/the-two-aeo-lanes-why-perplexity-and-gemini-are-more-alike-than-different\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: The Two AEO Lanes: Why Perplexity and Gemini Are More Alike Than Different<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/tampawebtech.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/number-1-in-google-not-cited-by-ai-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"\" \/><\/div><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/tampawebtech.com\/news\/google-and-ai-overviews-are-using-completely-different-rulebooks\/\">Google and AI Overviews Are Using Completely Different Rulebooks<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by David Chamberlain<\/div><time datetime=\"2026-04-18T22:59:02-05:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">April 18, 2026<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">TWT News SEO \u00b7 Original Research Fluke Ranked #1. Gemini Cited a Regional Motor Shop. Four Queries That Reveal How Google and AI Overviews Are Using Completely Different Rulebooks. We ran four queries in incognito, recorded every Gemini AI Overview citation and every top-10 organic blue link, and compared them domain by domain. The overlap\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tampawebtech.com\/news\/google-and-ai-overviews-are-using-completely-different-rulebooks\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Google and AI Overviews Are Using Completely Different Rulebooks<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/tampawebtech.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/tesla-pr-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Tesla: AI company disguised as car brand\" style=\"\" \/><\/div><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/tampawebtech.com\/news\/ai-engines-are-writing-the-tesla-narrative\/\">AI Engines Are Writing The Tesla Narrative<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by David Chamberlain<\/div><time datetime=\"2026-04-18T19:40:01-05:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">April 18, 2026<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">TWT News Research &amp; Analysis \u00b7 AI Search \u00b7 Brand Entity Control Tesla Dissolved Its PR Department to Control the Narrative. AI Engines Are Writing That Narrative Anyway. A structured query study across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity finds that Tesla maintains strong entity control over exactly one category of information: financial disclosures. Across press contacts,\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tampawebtech.com\/news\/ai-engines-are-writing-the-tesla-narrative\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: AI Engines Are Writing The Tesla Narrative<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/tampawebtech.com\/news\/the-expand-your-footprint-advice-is-producing-citation-dependency-not-citation-authority\/\">The &#8220;Expand Your Footprint&#8221; Advice Is Producing Citation Dependency, Not Citation Authority\u00a0<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by David Chamberlain<\/div><time datetime=\"2026-04-18T16:21:55-05:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">April 18, 2026<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">TWT News Research &amp; Analysis \u00b7 AI Search \u00b7 Work Boot &amp; Industrial Sectors The &#8220;Expand Your Footprint&#8221; Advice Is Producing Citation Dependency, Not Citation Authority \u2014 Data from 9 Work Boot Brands Across 3 AI Engines Widely circulated guidance tells brands that AI engines rarely cite their own domains, so the solution is more\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tampawebtech.com\/news\/the-expand-your-footprint-advice-is-producing-citation-dependency-not-citation-authority\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: The &#8220;Expand Your Footprint&#8221; Advice Is Producing Citation Dependency, Not Citation Authority\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-40","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tampawebtech.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tampawebtech.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tampawebtech.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tampawebtech.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tampawebtech.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tampawebtech.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/tampawebtech.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tampawebtech.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}