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+<br>However, Generative Engines present numerous challenges for content creators: Ranking and Visibility: Assessing site performance in traditional search engines is straightforward, with websites listed in ranked order with verbatim content. However, Generative Engines generate rich and structured responses, often embedding citations in a single block. This makes the notion of ranking and visibility highly nuanced and multi-faceted. Optimization of Websites: Unlike search engines, where significant research has been conducted on improving website visibility, it remains unclear how to optimize visibility in generative engine responses. Black Box Nature: Due to black box nature of the generative engines, content creators have little to no control over when and how their content is displayed, making it even difficult to optimize their content. Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), a novel paradigm designed to aid content creators in enhancing their content's visibility. We contribute various impression metrics, a benchmark for evaluation and suite of optimization strategies empowering creators to improve content visibility, on deployed commercial Generative Engines.<br>
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