GEO & AEO · Streak, citation and daily formats
The GEO & AEO quiz
Ten questions on optimising for engines that write an answer instead of listing links: which file really controls crawler access, what Google-Extended does and does not do, where llms.txt actually stands, and how to measure citations in a way that survives scrutiny.
Common questions
Is GEO the same as local SEO?
No. Here GEO means Generative Engine Optimisation — being used and cited by systems that compose an answer. It has nothing to do with geographic or local search, which is an unfortunate collision of acronyms.
Why does the quiz keep hedging on llms.txt?
Because the honest answer is hedged. It is a community proposal, not an adopted standard, and no major AI provider has confirmed using it. Publishing one is cheap and harmless; claiming it makes you appear in AI answers is not supported.
Do the citation questions have objectively right answers?
The pairs are built around properties that make a passage easier to retrieve and quote — self-containment, specificity, attribution, honest scope. That is a reasoned judgement about extractability, not a claim about what any particular engine did on any particular day.
More quizzes on the quiz hub, or start with the complete GEO and AEO guide.