We’re excited to have you, to get the most out of the community: introduce yourself and get to know each other, there's immense opportunity hiding in plain sight here. - Who are you?, Tell us about your business! - What’s your superpower (What are you really good at or what sets you apart?) - What are you most excited to learn about the future of search and how AEO can work for you? 🚀This is your space to share, ask questions, and begin your AEO journey Now, it's time to get to know each other! 👇 Please introduce yourself 👇 ----------------------------------------------------------- Here's my Introduction: Hey, everyone! 👋 My name is Kasim Aslam, I built and sold the #1 Google Ads Agency in the world, and today, as co-founder of AEO.co I’m here to help you navigate the exciting world of Answer Engine Optimization (AEO). My superpower? Sourcing and training exceptional talent from emerging nations, and the proof is in this community (You gotta meet Julian!) What am I most curious about in the future of search? I’m super interested in how to leverage AEO for ultra-niched businesses—especially when you're in a space with a very specific target audience and trying to get AI Answer Engines to recommend your brand. I’m thrilled to be on this journey with all of you, and I can’t wait to see how AEO will revolutionize the way we all approach search and visibility in this new AI-driven landscape.

I'm interested to hear how others are implementing schema, and maybe get some feedback on how I'm doing it. Most of my clients are small local businesses and their websites are usually no more than 10-20 pages. Most of them are using Yoast, so I'm converting them over to using the free version of Rank Math. I'm letting Rank Math handle most of the pages, but for the major pages (Home, Services, FAQ, Jobs, Contact) I'm adding the schema manually with a header/footer plugin. I'd love to hear from anyone who has done it this way and if you found any pros or cons.

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For the first time in 25 years, consumers aren’t choosing a search engine… they’re choosing an assistant. Atlas. Comet. Perplexity. Gemini. Copilot. Even Apple’s about to enter the chat. And here’s the quiet shift almost no one is talking about: We’re moving from Browser → Search → Results to Surface → AI → Answer. Traditional search isn’t disappearing — it’s just moving upstream where users never see it. Google knows this. That’s why the homepage is slowly steering toward AI-first by default. The “two-lane highway” (classic search vs AI mode) won’t last. In a year or two, we won’t ask: “Which search engine do you use?” We’ll ask: “Which AI do you trust to interpret the internet for you?” That’s the battleground now. And the real optimization shift isn’t ranking → referencing. It’s ranking → being ingested. The brands that understand that won’t just survive this transition — they’ll shape it. What do you think — are we ready for an AI-first internet, or are we clinging to the last stage of the old era?

With all the talk about real-time AI engines favoring fresh content, I’m wondering how others schedule updates. Are you refreshing routinely, only when performance drops, or just when you have something new to add?