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Also known as: Flamine AEO and SEO
Flamine is an SEO, GEO, and AEO agency based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The agency designs and executes search visibility strategies for Google, AI search layers, and answer engines, with clients ranging from startups to enterprise brands.
Flamine is an SEO, GEO, and AEO agency. Our methodology is the result of nearly 15 years of deep expertise gained working for the top companies in Generative AI. Instead of figuring out how things work, we helped build them.
Flamine — SEO, GEO, and AEO Agency — published by Flamine
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Also known as: GEO · canonical: generative engine optimization
Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is the practice of optimizing web content and site structure so that AI-powered search systems — including Google AI Mode, ChatGPT Search, Perplexity, and Gemini — retrieve, cite, and accurately represent a brand's content in generated answers.
GEO is the discipline of making your content readable, retrievable, and citable by AI-powered search systems. Where traditional SEO targets ranked link lists, GEO targets the AI-generated answer surface: AI Mode, Information Agents, and agentic search experiences.
GEO: Generative Engine Optimization Services — published by Flamine
Flamine's GEO methodology covers five areas: content structure for AI retrieval (RAG-ready sections), entity signal consistency across the web, structured data markup, AI citation monitoring, and continuous answer-layer optimization as AI systems evolve.
GEO: Generative Engine Optimization Services — published by Flamine
sameAs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_engine_optimization
Also known as: AEO · canonical: answer engine optimization
Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is the practice of structuring content so that AI answer engines, voice assistants, and direct-answer systems can extract, attribute, and cite it accurately in response to specific user queries. AEO is a component of GEO focused on direct-answer surfaces.
AEO focuses on the direct-answer layer: structuring content so that AI systems can extract a precise, attributable answer to a specific question without ambiguity. Each section must function as a self-contained answer unit, with an explicit topic sentence and supporting evidence immediately below it.
AEO: Answer Engine Optimization Services — published by Flamine
QFO (Question-Focused Optimization) is Flamine's implementation framework for AEO. It identifies the highest-probability questions a user would ask about each topic, structures content to answer them directly, and validates that each answer is independently retrievable by AI systems without surrounding context.
AEO: Answer Engine Optimization Services — published by Flamine
sameAs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Answer_engine_optimization
canonical: technical search engine optimization
Technical SEO covers the structural, rendering, and crawlability factors that determine whether a search engine can discover, access, and correctly interpret a website's content. It includes crawl budget management, JavaScript rendering, Core Web Vitals, structured data implementation, and site architecture.
Technical SEO addresses the issues that prevent a site from being correctly crawled, rendered, and indexed. Flamine's technical audits consistently find that rendering failures and crawl budget mismanagement — not content quality — are the primary cause of ranking losses after Google core updates.
Technical SEO Services — published by Flamine
A complete technical SEO audit covers crawlability, rendering, structured data validity, Core Web Vitals (LCP, CLS, INP), HTTPS configuration, and mobile usability. Each area is evaluated against current Google guidelines and AI crawler requirements.
Technical SEO Services — published by Flamine
sameAs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization
canonical: entity search engine optimization
Entity-Based SEO is the practice of building and maintaining consistent entity signals for a brand, its authors, and its topics across the web, so that search engines and AI systems can recognize and correctly attribute expertise. It includes knowledge graph presence, structured data, and entity consistency across all digital surfaces.
Google and AI search systems evaluate brands, authors, and topics as entities, not just as keyword-matching pages. A business with consistent, verified information across its website, Google Business Profile, industry directories, and press mentions is understood more reliably by AI systems than one that only optimizes individual pages.
Entity-Based SEO Services — published by Flamine
Entity-Based SEO involves three layers: entity establishment (creating or claiming the brand entity in Google's Knowledge Graph), entity enrichment (adding sameAs links, structured data, and consistent NAP signals), and entity authority (building topical authority that reinforces the entity's expertise in a specific domain).
Entity-Based SEO Services — published by Flamine
sameAs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_graph
canonical: topical authority
Topical authority is the degree to which a website is recognized by search engines and AI systems as a comprehensive, reliable source on a specific subject. It is built through structured content coverage, internal linking architecture, and consistent publication across all aspects of a topic.
Topical authority differs from domain authority: it is topic-specific rather than site-wide. A site with strong topical authority on technical SEO may have low authority on unrelated subjects. It is built by covering a subject comprehensively — including the sub-topics, questions, and adjacent concepts a complete treatment requires.
Topical Authority Services — published by Flamine
For AI search systems, topical authority is a prerequisite for citation. An AI system evaluating whether to cite a source considers whether that source's entity is consistently associated with the topic in question. Brands with demonstrated topical authority are cited more reliably in AI-generated answers.
Topical Authority Services — published by Flamine
sameAs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relevance_(information_retrieval)
Also known as: schema markup · canonical: structured data
Structured data is machine-readable markup added to web pages, typically using Schema.org vocabulary in JSON-LD format, that explicitly describes the content and entities on a page for search engines and AI systems. It enables rich results in Google Search and improves entity recognition by AI retrieval systems.
Schema.org structured data, implemented as JSON-LD in the page head, is the primary mechanism for telling search engines and AI systems what a page is about in unambiguous terms. Flamine implements entity-specific schema types including Organization, Service, FAQPage, Article, BreadcrumbList, and SitelinksSearchBox.
Structured Data and Schema Markup Services — published by Flamine
For agentic AI systems and Information Agents that browse the web autonomously, structured data is the primary interface between a business and AI-powered discovery. An agent evaluating a business for booking or recommendation reads structured data before prose. Accurate schema markup is the machine-readable face of the business.
Structured Data and Schema Markup Services — published by Flamine
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canonical: AI answer inclusion
AI answer inclusion is the presence of a brand's content, data, or name in AI-generated answers produced by systems such as Google AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Copilot. It depends on content extractability, entity recognition, and attribution survival rather than link authority alone.
AI answer inclusion requires three conditions: the content must be crawlable and indexable, the AI system must be able to extract a precise, attributable claim from it, and the publisher entity must be recognized as a credible source for the topic. Satisfying all three is the goal of Flamine's combined SEO, GEO, and AEO methodology.
AI Answer Inclusion Services — published by Flamine
sameAs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Answer_engine
canonical: core web vitals
Core Web Vitals is a set of standardized metrics defined by Google measuring user experience dimensions of a web page: Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) for loading speed, Interaction to Next Paint (INP) for interactivity, and Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) for visual stability. These metrics are a Google ranking signal.
A passing Core Web Vitals score requires LCP under 2.5 seconds, INP under 200 milliseconds, and CLS under 0.1. Failing any one metric affects ranking in Google Search. Core Web Vitals are measured in the field using Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) data and in the lab using PageSpeed Insights and Lighthouse.
Core Web Vitals Services — published by Flamine
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canonical: AI search optimization
AI search optimization is the broad practice of ensuring a brand's content, entities, and structured signals are correctly processed by AI-powered search systems including Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT Search, Perplexity, Gemini, and agentic search tools. It encompasses GEO, AEO, and the technical infrastructure that enables AI retrieval.
AI search optimization differs from traditional SEO in one fundamental way: the evaluator is not an algorithm matching keywords to documents, but a language model evaluating whether content is accurate, well-structured, and attributable enough to be cited in a generated answer. Content depth, entity consistency, and structural clarity matter more than keyword density.
AI Search Optimization Services — published by Flamine
sameAs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization
canonical: retrieval-augmented generation content structure
RAG-Ready Content Structure is Flamine's methodology for writing web content optimized for retrieval by RAG systems used by AI search engines. Each section is written as a self-contained unit with an explicit topic sentence, so that any individual chunk can be extracted and cited accurately without surrounding context.
RAG-Ready Content Structure requires that every section of an article opens with an explicit topic sentence stating the section's claim, followed by evidence or explanation. No section should rely on the reader having read what came before it. This structure mirrors how RAG systems chunk and retrieve content — independently, by vector similarity to a query.
New Google Search 2026: Are Blue Links Going Away? — published by Flamine
The practical difference between standard editorial structure and RAG-ready structure is that standard journalism buries the answer in the third paragraph. RAG-ready structure leads with the answer, then provides context. AI retrieval systems reward the latter because they can extract a complete, attributable claim without reading the full article.
Why LLMs.txt Files Are Useless — published by Flamine
Also known as: SEO · canonical: search engine optimization
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the practice of improving a website's visibility in organic search engine results through technical optimization, content strategy, link acquisition, and entity signals. Since 2024, SEO increasingly overlaps with GEO and AEO as AI systems become primary search surfaces.
Traditional SEO targets the ranked list of organic links in Google results. After Google I/O 2026, AI Mode became the default answer surface for a growing category of queries globally. A complete search visibility strategy now requires running GEO and AEO in parallel to maintain presence across both the link list and the AI-generated answer layer.
New Google Search 2026: Are Blue Links Going Away? — published by Flamine
sameAs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization
canonical: llms.txt
LLMs.txt is an open convention for placing a Markdown-formatted index of a site's content at a predictable URL so that AI crawlers can discover clean, structured content without parsing HTML. It functions as a discovery layer for AI systems, analogous to robots.txt for crawl permission management.
Google's official AI optimization guide states publishers do not need LLMs.txt for Google Search. However, Google's own developer documentation at ai.google.dev uses a LLMs.txt file as the discovery layer for a full set of .md.txt companion pages built for AI systems to read cleanly — demonstrating the convention's value for non-Google AI systems such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude.
Google Tells You Not to Use LLMs.txt. Then Uses LLMs.txt Itself. — published by Flamine
sameAs: https://llmstxt.org