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AI Engineering•Aug 14, 2026•5 min read

AEO vs SEO: What Actually Gets Your Site Cited by AI in 2026

SEO wins retrieval, AEO wins the citation. First-hand data from a 45-query study: pages ranking top-12 on Google were surfaced by live web search 60% of the time but cited by a browsing AI only 15.6% of the time. What the gap is and how to close it.

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