# Answers

URL: https://aura8.ai/answers/
Updated: 3 November 2026

> These pages answer common questions about answer engine and generative engine optimisation: what AEO and GEO are, how assistants choose sources, how to measure AI visibility, whether llms.txt and schema are needed, and how to write quotable pages.

ANSWER 01
### What is answer engine optimisation (AEO) and generative engine optimisation (GEO)?
Answer engine optimisation (AEO) is making your content the direct answer to a question.
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### How do AI assistants decide which sources to cite?
Assistants do not publish their full rules, so no one can promise a citation.
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### How do you measure whether AI assistants mention your business?
Write the questions buyers ask, run each on several assistants, repeat each on separate days, and record whether you are cited, mentioned or absent, with the date and the source used.
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### Do you need llms.txt and schema markup for AI search?
Neither is required.
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### How should a page be written so AI assistants can quote it?
A quotable page opens with a short answer that stands alone, uses a question as its heading, puts facts in tables or lists, backs external claims with a dated source and shows a visible date that matches its structured data.
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