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From Kat  ·  Real Talk on AEO

A Real Example of Why AEO Matters. From My Own Backyard.

You don’t have to love AI. But right now, most of your competitors aren’t showing up in it. This is what it looks like when you do.

Hey friend,

My husband is a private chef here in Bluffton. I built his website and optimized it for SEO. We’ve been sitting at the number two or three Google ranking for his local search terms for a while now. About four months ago I went back in and added AEO — Answer Engine Optimization — which is specifically about structuring content so AI tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini can read it, understand it, and recommend it when someone asks them a question.

On Friday he got a call from a client who found him through ChatGPT. The client mentioned that his was the only website that came up in the search.

Google and AI search are two separate things. Ranking well on one doesn’t mean you show up on the other. Most businesses and creators aren’t optimized for either, and almost none of them are optimized for both. That’s just where things are right now.

You don’t have to have an opinion about AI to benefit from showing up in it. People are already using ChatGPT and Perplexity to find services, find recipes, find answers. If your content is structured for it, you show up. If it isn’t, someone else does.

We Made This Easy

BeeLine AEO

The AEO plugin built for food bloggers

This is the same approach we built into BeeLine AEO for food bloggers. It works with WP Recipe Maker, handles your existing content and your new posts, generates the backend schema that makes AI tools able to read and recommend your content, and doesn’t require any technical knowledge to use.

If you want to get set up, just reply to this email.

Built for food bloggers  •  Works with WPRM  •  New posts + old posts  •  No technical skills required

If this is something you want to look into, just reply.

Kat