GEO / AEO — Search Infrastructure
Is SEO dead?
No — but almost nobody is optimizing for it alone anymore.
SEO optimized for ranking position. AEO optimizes for whether your content gets selected as the answer. GEO optimizes for whether AI systems represent and trust your brand at all — same foundation, different reader. SEO didn’t die. It stopped being transactional.
AI & Web Strategy — Systems View
What’s the website’s job when AI does the discovering?
For twenty years, a corporate website had two jobs: get found, and convert. AI is rewriting the first one.
The funnel compresses, because by the time a human clicks through, an AI system has usually already done the comparison shopping. The job is shifting from “convince a visitor” to “be the source an agent trusts enough to repeat” — an infrastructure problem before it’s a content problem.