AEO vs SEO: Why Letting AI Bots Crawl Your Site Matters in 2026

The article explains Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), a strategy for appearing in AI chatbot responses rather than traditional search results. It details how different AI crawlers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, Google) require separate robots.txt directives. The author warns that robots.txt is voluntary and not a hard block, and that canonical tags may not influence AI crawlers as they do for Google.