The Seven Rules of AEO
Seven rules decide whether AI cites your page: question-shaped titles, answer-first sections, standalone chunks, named entities, sourced numbers, nothing gated.
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How do you get YouTube videos cited by AI? Best practices for video AEO
AI engines never watch your videos. They read them: the title, the description, the transcript, the chapters. That single fact decides which videos get cited in AI answers, and it explains why a 200-view video with clean metadata can beat a 500,000-view video without it. Here is what the evidence says actually works.
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How do AI engines choose what to cite? We tracked 2,429 answers to find out
AI engines do not cite the biggest brand, the highest domain authority, or the most popular page. They cite whoever published the clearest answer to the question being asked, and most of the time, nobody credible has. We know because we spent three months logging where four AI systems get their answers about one contentious industry: 2,429 answers, roughly 19,100 cited links.
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