What is the difference between AEO and SEO?
SEO ranks a blue link on Google. AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) is the practice of being named inside an AI answer. Trendscoded is not an AEO product. It maps the markets buyers compare you in, then reads ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok as evidence of standing.
SEO is a search-results job: rank a page, earn the click. AEO is a different surface: get named inside the answer ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, or Grok gives a buyer. Both can matter. Neither is a Market Map.
Trendscoded sits after the market is defined. Visibility and AEO tools count or optimize appearance. The Market Map names which markets you belong in and who belongs in each; standing is then measured there, with the sources kept.
- SEO: rank a link on a results page
- AEO: be named inside an AI answer
- Trendscoded: map the market, then measure standing — AI answers are evidence
- A visibility or AEO tool can sit alongside a Market Map; it is not the same hire
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