Ebooks
The AEO HQ Library
Five books on answer engine optimization, compiled from our articles in reading order, with every source. $95 each, all five for $395, or included with the AEO Audit.
Every chapter is also free to read on this site. The books are for reading offline, printing, and passing to your team: one PDF per book, with a table of contents and each chapter's sources. After checkout you go straight to your download links.
Book 1 · PDF · 147 pages
Answer Engine Optimization: The Reference
The definitions, the evidence on what works and what does not replicate, and how to write pages that AI assistants can find and quote.
10 chapters, each free to read online
- Answer engine optimization (AEO): the complete guide
- What is generative engine optimization (GEO)?
- Generative engine optimization (GEO): the complete guide
- AEO vs GEO (and AIO, LLMO): are they the same thing?
- AEO vs SEO: what is the difference?
- GEO vs SEO: what is the difference?
- What replicates in AEO and GEO research
- AI search optimization: SEO plus corroboration, facts, and measurement
- How to write content for answer engines
- AEO glossary: answer engine and AI search terms
$95PDF
Book 2 · PDF · 174 pages
Getting Cited by AI Assistants
Engine by engine: the crawlers, indexes, and documented rules behind each assistant, and the steps that follow from them.
13 chapters, each free to read online
- How ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and Copilot find and cite sources
- ChatGPT SEO: how to rank in ChatGPT search
- How to get cited and recommended by ChatGPT
- How to rank in Claude
- How to rank in Perplexity
- How to rank in Google AI Overviews and AI Mode
- How to rank in Gemini
- How to rank in Microsoft Copilot
- Brand mentions and AI recommendations
- Does schema markup help AEO? What the evidence says
- Featured snippets and People Also Ask in the AI era
- llms.txt: what it is and whether it matters
- How AI agents find and buy services
$95PDF
Book 3 · PDF · 103 pages
Measuring AI Visibility
What to count, how many prompts and runs, error ranges, GA4 setup, the tools on the market, and the statistics behind them.
$95PDF
Book 4 · PDF · 112 pages
The AEO Field Manual
Four checklists with pass criteria, three sets of antipatterns with the evidence against them, and documented examples.
$95PDF
Book 5 · PDF · 234 pages
AEO by Industry
B2B SaaS, law firms, healthcare, fintech, cybersecurity, and professional services, plus what AEO costs and how to choose a provider.
10 chapters, each free to read online
- SEO, AEO, and GEO by industry
- SEO, AEO, and GEO for B2B SaaS companies
- SEO, AEO, and GEO for law firms
- SEO, AEO, and GEO for healthcare companies
- SEO, AEO, and GEO for fintech and financial services
- SEO, AEO, and GEO for cybersecurity and IT services
- SEO, AEO, and GEO for professional services firms
- How much does AEO cost? A sourced pricing index
- Is AEO worth it? What the evidence says
- How to choose an AEO or GEO agency
$95PDF
All five books
The complete library
All five PDFs for $395, which is $80 less than buying them one at a time ($475).
$395one-time
Included with the AEO Audit and above. Buy the AEO Audit, the AEO Blueprint, or Blueprint + Implementation and all five books come with it; the download links are on your confirmation page.
See the AEO AuditThe books are for the buyer's own use and their team's. Keep your download page bookmarked; if you lose it, email paul@aeohq.ai with your receipt.