How would you approach an AEO mess with a client or prospect?
I'm helping someone who has a blog and gets mentioned by Perplexity in a search. Their site is a mess, no schema, built by a family staff person with no expertise. Where to start? They have a very unique term "Neuro recovery' as part of their business, LLMs know it, they have not defined it. //// What is the first step? /// I'm starting by understanding what google, perplexity etc knows about them (Julians Format) BUT I'm also wondering since the term is unique is this why their blog post shows up, how would I back-engineer that aspect? Thanks in advance for any ideas, ... just plodding through the dark. LOL. Heres what Perplexity told me on the back engineering //// Those Next Level Neuro articles surfaced because “Applied Neurology” is being used there as a branded, fairly niche phrase plus a blog/category label, not just because of “neuro recovery” being unusual. The domain has multiple posts with “Applied Neurology” in the title, tags, and snippets, so once that phrase is in the query, their blog is a very strong lexical and semantic match. More broadly, “applied neurology” is still relatively uncommon compared with generic terms like “neurology,” “neuro rehab,” or “nervous system regulation,” which makes any site that repeats it heavily (like Next Level Neuro) rise to the top of results. “Neuro recovery” on its own is less unique and overlaps with established areas like neurorehabilitation and restorative neurology, so it does not anchor as strongly to a single brand or site in the same way.