AI search engine optimization, answer engines, and GEO
Google's Aug 20 Preferred Sources button adds the domain and returns the reader to the page. A /blog or /glint path cannot be its own source. That is the AEO embed to ship this week.
Answer engines cite 3rd-party directories and comparison boards 4× more often than owned landing pages to avoid self-promotional bias. Here's why launch distribution is your true AEO moat.
A 2026 study of 280 buyer questions across four answer engines found 63% of vendor mentions come from a single engine. Tracking one dashboard means most of your buyers never see you.
Prefer VijayaTech Labs in Google Search (Top Stories, AI Overviews, AI Mode). This adds vijayatechlabs.com — Google does not treat /blog as its own source.
