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AEO Glossary & Plain-English Q&A
A plain-English glossary of AEO, GEO, and AI search terms, with quick answers to the questions people ask most about getting cited in ChatGPT and Perplexity.
Getting Started With Cited
Just joined? How to add your brand, choose keywords, set your brand voice, read the dashboard, see what we publish, request changes, and get support.
Risks & Downsides
Could AEO backfire? Honest answers on reputation risk, account bans, content accuracy, reversibility, and what happens if AI platforms change the rules.
Other Categories
Is Cited Right for You?
Whether Cited fits your business: B2B SaaS, e-commerce, local, agencies, and enterprise, plus language and country support and the industries we don't serve.
Trust, Security & Privacy
Who runs Cited, how your data is stored and protected, GDPR, the access we need, and the things we never ask for.
Pricing, Plans & Billing
What each plan includes, what counts as a citation, free trial details, cancellation and refunds, the blog add-on, VAT, and payment options.
Cited vs. the Alternatives
Why choose Cited over doing it yourself, hiring an agency, or using a monitoring-only tool, and whether you still need traditional SEO.
Does AEO Actually Work?
Can you really influence what ChatGPT and Perplexity say? Honest answers on the evidence, whether it's sustainable, and the scam question, with no hype.
Citation Channels & Platforms
Where Cited publishes and why: Reddit, Quora, press, X, Substack, LinkedIn, and blogs. Which channels move AI citations, which barely do, and how we avoid bans and removals.
AI-Generated Content & Automation, Addressed
Straight answers on whether AI-written content is low quality, accurate, brand-safe, ethical, and within platform rules, plus how human review and approval work.
Results, Timelines & What to Expect
How long results take, how AI citation gains are measured, why visibility shifts month to month, and what a realistic outcome looks like.
How Cited Works
The two-part model behind Cited: research your AI visibility gaps, then create and publish citations across the external channels AI actually reads, with a dashboard that proves it's working.
Understanding AEO, GEO & AI Search
What Answer Engine Optimization and Generative Engine Optimization actually mean, how AI assistants decide what to cite, and why being the answer now beats ranking #1.