Diese Anleitung ist auf Englisch verfügbar.
What Is an AEO API?
An AEO API measures how AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity describe and recommend a business, and tracks that visibility over time.
Auf einen Blick
- Was diese Anleitung leistet
- Explain answer-engine optimisation, what an AEO API measures, and how it differs from search ranking.
- Verwendete APIs
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/api/v1/aeo/reports/enqueueAEO-Berichtsgenerierung einreihen - get
/api/v1/aeo/reportsAEO-Bericht eines Standorts abrufen - get
/api/v1/aeo/rollupStandortübergreifendes AEO-Rollup abrufen - get
/api/v1/seo/share-of-voiceShare of Voice abrufen
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- Referenz
- AEO
- Voraussetzungen
- None. This is a concept page; the guides linked from it have the code.
- Typische Anwendungsfälle
- Understanding AI visibility as a measurable thing
- Deciding whether to track how AI describes a business
- Explaining AEO to a marketing or product team
Ask ChatGPT for a good dentist near you, or the opening hours of the coffee shop on Grove Street, and it answers in a paragraph that names real businesses. Yours is either in that paragraph or it is not. When it is, the description might be accurate, six months out of date, or quietly unflattering. Measuring that is answer-engine optimisation, AEO for short. An AEO API measures it in code, instead of you typing the prompts by hand and reading the replies.
A paragraph, not a rank
Search hands you a position: third for a keyword. An answer engine hands you prose, and prose does not collapse to a number. The same business can be recommended outright in one answer, described with stale hours in the next, and left out of a third that names three competitors instead. So an AEO API measures what a rank cannot: what the generated answer says about the business, the sentiment of it, and how often the business surfaces at all, across engines and across prompts.
The calls behind a report
A report runs a set of prompts against several engines and keeps what comes back. POST /api/v1/aeo/reports/enqueue starts one for a location, and GET /api/v1/aeo/reports returns it once it has finished. For a whole portfolio, GET /api/v1/aeo/rollup gives the latest overall and per-engine scores for every location, and GET /api/v1/seo/share-of-voice shows how often the business gets named alongside its competitors. What you read out of it is a visibility score, the engines where the business is weak, and the fixes that would move it.
What has to be true first
An answer engine describes a business well only when it is reading an accurate, consistent profile. AEO is not a lever you pull on its own: the score moves when the listings underneath it are correct and the local SEO around it is healthy. Measuring the score is the easy half. Acting on it is the other half, and the AI agent guide treats the AEO score as one of the signals an agent reads before it moves.