AEO vs SEO: Why AI Agents Require a Different Kind of Visibility
Dev.to AI
•
AI Research
AEO vs SEO: Why AI Agents Require a Different Kind of Visibility Every digital business learned SEO eventually. The ones who learned it early cleaned up. AEO is following the exact same arc. What Is AEO? Agent Engine Optimization (AEO) is the discipline of making your product discoverable and usable by AI agents. SEO made you findable by search bots. AEO makes you usable by money-moving agents that transact programmatically. The key word is usable. Not findable. Usable. The Core Difference Search engines crawl HTML. AI agents do not browse.