AEO: The Invisible Ranking System Already Deciding Who Borrowers Call
Search has changed. When someone types "best loan officer in Austin" or "who should I use for a VA loan in Phoenix," they're increasingly getting a direct AI-generated answer, not a list of ten blue links to click through. Google's AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, these tools are synthesizing information from across the web and delivering a single response. The question is whether your name is in that response or someone else's.