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title: "From featured snippets to AI answers: AEO migration"
description: "The featured-snippet playbook still works — with three additions for AI answers. A practical AEO migration guide."
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author: "VikiEdit Team"
published: "2026-05-09T22:00:00+00:00"
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tags: "aeo migration, featured snippets, ai answers, aeo"
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# From featured snippets to AI answers: the AEO migration guide

> The featured-snippet playbook still works — with three additions for AI answers. A practical AEO migration guide.

If your buyers are asking ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, or Gemini for recommendations in your category, the question of **AEO migration** is no longer optional — it is the new top of funnel. This guide is a working playbook, not a theory piece.

We wrote this for marketing leaders, founders, and growth teams who want to be cited by ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini for the queries that actually move pipeline.

## What still works from featured snippets

Direct, declarative answers. Lists and tables. Question-style H2s. Concise definitions. All of it transfers cleanly.

## The three things to add

1. **Entity disambiguation** — name the entity you mean (your brand, your product, the standard you reference) explicitly, not by pronoun.
2. **Source citations** — link to primary sources for every factual claim.
3. **Markdown twin** — publish a clean text version at `/path.md` so models can fetch without rendering JS.

## The migration sequence

Audit your top 20 snippet-winning pages. Add entity names, citations, and a Markdown twin. Re-test in Perplexity and Google AI Overviews after 30 days. Most brands see citation share rise on 60–80% of migrated pages.

## Frequently asked

### Do featured snippets still drive traffic?

Yes — and AI Overviews now sit above many of them. Optimising for both is the safe play.

### What about voice search optimisation?

Largely the same playbook as AEO. Optimise once, win everywhere.

If you'd like a tailored audit of how AI engines describe your brand and a 90-day plan to lift your citation share, [talk to our team](/contact).

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Canonical URL: https://www.vikiedit.com/blog/from-featured-snippets-to-ai-answers-the-aeo-migration-guide
Author: VikiEdit Team
Published: 2026-05-09T22:00:00+00:00
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