ANSWER ENGINE OPTIMIZATION
The AEO agency that makes your answers the ones AI uses.
Answer engine optimization for AI Overviews, featured snippets, voice search, and AI assistants.
Overview
Your buyers ask questions before they ask for a quote: what something costs, how long it takes, which option is right for them. Answer engines, including Google's AI Overviews, featured snippets, voice assistants, and AI tools like ChatGPT, pull those answers from the pages that state them most clearly. Answer engine optimization (AEO) is how you become that page. Canned Spinach finds the questions your buyers actually ask, writes answers that lead with the point, structures your pages and schema so the answers are easy to extract, and tracks which questions you win. It's the same answer-first approach we use on our own website.
ANSWER ENGINE OPTIMIZATION
Our Capabilities
We collect the questions your buyers ask from Google's "People also ask" results, AI prompts, sales calls, and support emails, then prioritize them by value.
Each page leads with a direct answer, followed by the detail, with clear headings, lists, and tables that are easy to extract.
Question-led content for your service, industry, and location pages, written to be quoted accurately.
FAQ, service, organization, article, and breadcrumb schema that tells machines exactly what each answer is about.
We identify the answers that already rank near the top and reshape them to win the featured snippet and AI Overview citation.
Monthly reporting on which questions you own in search results and AI tools, and which ones to target next.
What makes an answer get used
Why Choose Us?
01
Writers who know search.
Our content team writes for buyers first and answer engines second, so answers read naturally and still get picked up.
02
Structure built into the site.
We design and develop websites, so answer-first templates and schema become part of your site, not a patch on top of it.
03
Reporting by question.
You see progress question by question, not just a traffic chart.
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Frequently Asked Questions
An answer engine optimization (AEO) agency makes your content the source that answer engines use when they respond to questions. That includes researching the questions your buyers ask, rewriting key pages so they lead with direct answers, adding FAQ and explainer content, implementing schema markup, and tracking which questions you win in featured snippets, Google's AI Overviews, voice assistants, and AI tools like ChatGPT.
AEO focuses on making your content the answer to specific questions, in featured snippets, AI Overviews, and voice results. GEO, generative engine optimization, focuses on getting your business recommended when AI tools write their own answers, which also depends on your reputation across other websites. They overlap, and Canned Spinach runs them together as part of our AI SEO services.
Pages that answer one clear question well: pricing explanations, how-it-works pages, comparisons, timelines, and FAQs written from real buyer questions. The answer should come first in plain language, followed by supporting detail, with headings that mirror how people phrase the question.
Yes. Google stopped showing FAQ dropdowns in search results for most websites in 2023, but answer-first content still wins featured snippets, citations in AI Overviews, and mentions in AI tools. FAQ schema still helps machines understand your answers, and other search engines and AI systems continue to read it.
Answer engine optimization is part of Canned Spinach's SEO and AI search retainers, which start at $2,000 per month. The level depends on how many questions and pages you want to target and how much new content is needed. Many businesses start with an AI visibility audit, which shows which answers you already own and where competitors are winning.
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