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SEO AEO Best Practices

SEO and AEO best practices for metadata, Open Graph, sitemaps, robots.txt, hreflang, JSON-LD structured data, EEAT, and content optimized for search engines and AI answer surfaces.

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About this skill

Gives your agent reference guidance for ranking in search engines and for being chosen as an answer by AI systems. Use it while adding metadata and Open Graph tags, writing a sitemap or robots.txt, adding JSON-LD, or shaping content for featured snippets, ChatGPT and Perplexity. The SKILL.md itself is a short index. It defines SEO, AEO and EEAT, then sends the agent to whichever of four reference files fits the task: EEAT and author schema, JSON-LD patterns for Article, FAQ, Breadcrumb and Product, a technical checklist that includes hreflang, or AI Overviews and crawler management. With no workflow or report format, what you get back is that guidance applied to the page or code you are working on.

What it needs

Nothing beyond your agent: no accounts, API keys or extra tools.

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SKILL.md

SEO & AEO Best Practices

Principles for optimizing content for both traditional search engines (SEO) and AI-powered answer engines (AEO). Includes Google's EEAT guidelines and structured data implementation.

When to Apply

Reference these guidelines when:

  • Implementing metadata and Open Graph tags
  • Creating sitemaps and robots.txt
  • Adding JSON-LD structured data
  • Optimizing content for featured snippets
  • Preparing content for AI assistants (ChatGPT, Perplexity, etc.)
  • Evaluating content quality using EEAT principles

Core Concepts

SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

Optimizing content to rank well in traditional search results (Google, Bing).

AEO (Answer Engine Optimization)

Optimizing content to be selected as authoritative answers by AI systems.

EEAT (Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness)

Google's framework for evaluating content quality.

References

Start with the one reference that matches the task, such as technical SEO, structured data, EEAT, or AI-answer readiness. See references/ for detailed guidance:

  • references/eeat-principles.md — EEAT implementation and author schema
  • references/structured-data.md — JSON-LD patterns (Article, FAQ, Breadcrumb, Product)
  • references/technical-seo.md — Technical SEO checklist (metadata, sitemaps, hreflang, robots.txt)
  • references/aeo-considerations.md — AI/AEO considerations (AI Overviews, crawler management)

Not using the CLI? Copy the SKILL.md and paste it straight into ChatGPT, Claude, or any agent.

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