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GEO Glossary

The vocabulary of ranking on generative engines. Terms explained the way you'd use them in a meeting.

GEO — Generative Engine Optimization

Optimizing to be found and cited by generative engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini — not just indexed by classic search engines.

Semantic graph

Your site represented as nodes (pages) and edges (links plus affinity of meaning). It makes visible the real structure engines perceive.

Money page

A page that drives direct revenue (product, quote request, conversion). Its reachability inside the graph is critical.

Orphan page

A page with no incoming internal links: crawlers struggle to reach it and generative engines tend to ignore it.

Link authority

How authority flows between a site's pages through internal links. It shapes which pages engines treat as important — and which ones get cited.

Chunking

How an LLM splits a page into self-contained passages before deciding what to quote. Well-structured pages survive chunking; walls of text don't.

Citability

How easy a page is to extract and cite as a source in a generated answer. The real goal of GEO.

Click depth

The number of clicks from the homepage to a page. Beyond level three, crawling thins out and citability drops.

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