Hi Greg,
AEO is a marketing name, same as GEO. It is not a standard, nor a second ranking system. Google Search says optimizing for its AI features is still traditional SEO.
We logged two six-month trials on WordPress sites we operate. ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok fetch pages. They do not fetch llms.txt. A GEO/AEO score does not make them fetch your site.
TSF already does the work that gets fetched: titles, descriptions, canonicals, robots.txt, and structured data. We will not add an llms.txt generator or an AEO checkbox to match the “AI visibility” scores.
Write-up: https://tsf.fyi/kb/ai-seo-geo-aeo-myths-and-facts/
The feature-request thread is still here: https://github.com/sybrew/the-seo-framework/issues/755.
