AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) is optimizing content to be the answer that engines and assistants provide — in featured snippets, voice results and AI Overviews.
AEO focuses on being the extracted answer, not just a ranked link. As answer-based search grows, so does its importance.
SEO ranks pages; AEO gets your content extracted as the answer.
Yes — strong SEO gets you considered, AEO gets you chosen.