Course record, checked 2026-09-16
Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) Course: AI SEO course record
Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) Course is a self-paced AI SEO program from Ahrefs Academy, priced at free as of September 16, 2026. Its public curriculum does not name GEO, teaches LLM citation training and teaches AI visibility measurement.
- Provider
- Ahrefs Academy
- Instructor
- Sam Oh
- Price
- Free. Free Provider-stated
- Format
- Self-paced: 12 pre-recorded video lessons, about 1 hour 26 minutes, no sign-up required
- Level
- Beginner
- Modules
- 5
- Update model
- Not stated
- Names ChatGPT
- Yes
- Status
- Live
- Official page
- https://ahrefs.com/academy/aeo-course
- Checked
- September 16, 2026 Observed
What Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) Course teaches
| Attribute | Recorded | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| GEO | No | public curriculum explicitly names Generative Engine Optimization or generative search visibility |
| AEO | Yes | public curriculum explicitly names Answer Engine Optimization |
| LLM citation training | Yes | public curriculum explicitly teaches earning, influencing or measuring citations, mentions or recommendations inside AI-generated answers |
| Entity SEO | No | public curriculum explicitly names entities, entity optimization or knowledge graphs |
| AI visibility measurement | Yes | public curriculum explicitly teaches measuring or tracking AI visibility, mentions, citations, share of answer or prompts |
| Traditional SEO | Yes | public curriculum also covers conventional SEO (keyword research, on-page, technical, links) |
| Link and mention acquisition | Yes | public curriculum covers link or mention acquisition |
| Community | No | |
| Live support | No | |
| Certificate | Unverified |
Evidence for this record
The course page frames the goal as getting your brand mentioned, cited and recommended by ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Gemini. Lessons include one on brand mentions and how to get cited by AI, keyword and prompt research for AEO, technical AEO (robots.txt, GPTBot, llms.txt) and tracking AI traffic in GA4 and Ahrefs Web Analytics. The term GEO and the words entity or knowledge graph do not appear on the course page; Ahrefs counts it as 12 lessons in 5 modules.
Paraphrased from the public page on September 16, 2026. Yes means the provider's page names the subject; No means the page describes the curriculum without naming it; Unverified means the page does not describe the curriculum in enough detail to say.
How this record is used
This record is one of 27 in AI SEO Course Study. It contributes to the GEO, AEO, citation, measurement, pricing and format findings only where its value is Yes or No; Unverified values are excluded from that denominator. The aggregate figures are on the findings page.
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