AI SEO is the umbrella term for how search and discovery work now that AI systems (search engines, answer engines, and generative assistants) mediate more of how people find information. It covers both traditional ranking signals and how content gets understood, extracted, and cited by AI systems.
This knowledge area is organized around eight subtopics:
- Agentic SEO: structuring SEO work as task-delegated, human-supervised agent workflows.
- Topical Authority: coming next.
- Generative Engine Optimization (GEO): coming next.
- Answer Engine Optimization (AEO): coming next.
- Entity SEO: coming next.
- Structured Data: coming next.
- E-E-A-T Signals: coming next.
- WordPress AI SEO: coming next.
The first published piece, How to Build an Agentic SEO Workflow Without Enterprise Tools, covers how a small team or solo practitioner can structure research, drafting, and validation across specialized agents without losing human control of what actually gets published.