What is AEO?

Answer engine optimisation is the practice of making accurate business information easier for answer systems to understand and reference. ShopFlare's AI Visibility area works with a business profile, customer questions, competitors, and monitoring results.

Measure a defined question set

An AI mention depends on the question, language, market, provider, and time of observation. Track a consistent set of realistic customer questions. A single answer is a sample, not a universal ranking or a promise that all shoppers will see the same result.

Understand availability

Access depends on your workspace and the current release. Use your dashboard's activation state rather than assuming access from this guide. No optimisation service can guarantee a citation, a recommendation, or a fixed placement in an external AI system.

Technical details and methodology

For the collection steps, eligibility rules, calculation units, and limits behind this workflow, use the implementation-reviewed technical guides below.

From a monitored question to an evidence-backed AEO resultAEO rates, retailer wins, and unclear answers explained