# Mentionwell — AEO, GEO & LLMO blog engine

> Blogs that get cited by ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and Perplexity. Headless. Optimizes every article for AEO + GEO + LLMO + classic SEO at the same time.

Drop a domain. Mentionwell scans your site, learns your voice and taxonomy, and ships SEO + AEO-tuned articles end-to-end — research, outline, draft, editorial critic, metadata, FAQ, embedding, image generation — on the schedule you set. Articles serve from a public read-only API or push into WordPress, Webflow, Ghost, Shopify, or Notion. Every article ships with FAQPage + Article JSON-LD, RSS, JSON Feed, sitemap, a per-article `.md` mirror, and a site-wide `llms.txt`.

Built by [ZipLyne](https://ziplyne.agency), an AI-product agency. Mentionwell came out of internal tooling that's now shipping as a standalone product.

## Glossary — what each acronym actually means

- [AEO — Answer Engine Optimization](https://mentionwell.com/aeo): Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is the practice of structuring content so it surfaces as the direct answer in answer engines — Google AI Overviews, Bing Copilot, Perplexity, voice assistants, and featured snippets. Where SEO optimizes for the blue-link list, AEO optimizes for the box that shows the answer above it.
- [GEO — Generative Engine Optimization](https://mentionwell.com/geo): Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is the newer term — coined in a 2023 Princeton paper — for optimizing toward generative engines like ChatGPT Search, Gemini, Perplexity, and Grok, where the model synthesizes an answer and cites a handful of sources. The goal of GEO is being one of those cited sources.
- [LLMO — LLM Optimization](https://mentionwell.com/llmo): LLM Optimization (LLMO) is the practice of making your content reachable, parseable, and trustworthy to the LLMs themselves — at both training time (large-scale crawls) and retrieval time (RAG pipelines, browsing tools, agent crawlers like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot). LLMO is the plumbing layer that AEO and GEO sit on top of.
- [SEO — Search Engine Optimization](https://mentionwell.com/seo): Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the original discipline: ranking in the blue-link results of Google and Bing. It's still the largest single source of traffic for most sites and the foundation that AEO, GEO, and LLMO are layered on top of. AI didn't kill SEO — it just added new surfaces above it.
- [AIO — AI Optimization](https://mentionwell.com/aio): AI Optimization (AIO) is an umbrella term sometimes used interchangeably with LLMO or GEO. In practice, when someone says "AIO" they mean the bundle of AEO + GEO + LLMO — the combined practice of optimizing for any AI-mediated surface. It's not a separate channel; it's the whole stack.
- [SGE — Search Generative Experience optimization](https://mentionwell.com/sge): SGE optimization originally targeted Google's Search Generative Experience — the experimental AI-generated answers Google launched in 2023. SGE has since been folded into Google AI Overviews, so SGE optimization is now largely a subset of AEO, with a Google-specific tilt.
- [AISO — AI Search Optimization](https://mentionwell.com/aiso): AI Search Optimization (AISO) is a rarer enterprise term that overlaps almost completely with GEO and LLMO. It's mostly used in B2B / enterprise content marketing pitches. If you're optimizing for AEO, GEO, and LLMO, you're already covering everything AISO refers to.

## How it works

1. **Onboarding in 60 seconds.** Drop a domain. We scan the homepage, sitemap, robots.txt, and structured data, then synthesize a brand profile, content taxonomy, and 10 starter headlines tuned to your audience and the questions AI engines are already asking.
2. **Planner / writer / critic.** Articles run through research, outline, draft, editorial critic, metadata, FAQ, embedding, and image generation — with explicit AEO and GEO passes that tighten the lead, surface the answer, and tag every claim for citation.
3. **Anywhere your site lives.** Pull from Mentionwell's public API on every request, or push articles into WordPress, Webflow, Ghost, Shopify, or Notion. Same articles, same dashboard, your choice of delivery.
4. **AI-discovery built in.** Every article ships with RSS, JSON Feed, sitemap, FAQPage + Article schema, a per-page `.md` mirror, and a site-wide `llms.txt` so ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and Perplexity can ingest it cleanly.

## Optimized for citation in

ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, Google AI Overviews. AI crawler allowlist published at https://mentionwell.com/robots.txt.

## Reference

- llms.txt index: https://mentionwell.com/llms.txt
- llms-full.txt deep reference: https://mentionwell.com/llms-full.txt
- AI surface map: https://mentionwell.com/ai.txt
- Curated AI sitemap: https://mentionwell.com/sitemap-llms.xml