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AISO vs SEO — What’s the difference?

TL;DR: SEO targets rankings in SERPs; AISO targets citations in assistants. They complement each other but use different artifacts and metrics.

Key facts

Surface
SERPs vs AI assistants (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, Claude)
Artifacts
Blogs/backlinks vs Answer Cards/Brand Facts/JSON-LD
Signals
Links & on-page vs structured facts & verifiable citations
KPIs
Rank/traffic vs Answer Share/citations/accuracy

References

Last updated: 2025-09-28