The fastest way to reach me is email.
I read everything that comes in. Replies typically land within a few business days, sometimes faster, sometimes slower depending on what’s on the desk.
What works well in an email
Corrections and disagreements. If something on the site is wrong, outdated, or contradicted by your own testing — tell me. Specific evidence is better than vague impressions. I revise published articles when the evidence warrants it; the version number on each guide tracks how often that’s happened.
Topic suggestions. If there’s something you wish a guide existed for, let me know. The roadmap is partly shaped by what people are actually trying to figure out.
Tool requests. The tools section gets a new utility every week or two. If there’s a specific AEO task you’re doing manually that could be automated in the browser, I’d genuinely like to know. Most of the tools on the site started as a reader email.
Citation reports. If you’ve noticed something interesting about how an answer engine is treating your content — citation patterns, ranking shifts after a structural change, AI Overview behavior — I’d like to hear about it. With your permission, anonymized findings sometimes turn into journal entries.
What probably won’t get a useful reply
SEO consulting requests. I don’t take consulting work. The site itself is the answer to “how would you approach this.”
Guest post pitches. Optimize AEO is a single-author publication and won’t be running guest content.
Sponsored placement requests. No sponsored articles, no sponsored reviews, no paid backlinks. The publication runs on display ads only — see the About page for the full editorial policy.
Link exchange offers. Auto-replied to /dev/null.
Comments and discussion
For public conversation about a specific article, the comment thread on that article is the better place than email. Comments are moderated by a human and read by everyone, so a good comment helps the next reader as much as you.
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Press and citations
If you’re writing about Optimize AEO or want to cite a guide:
- Quoting up to a few sentences with a link back is welcome — no permission needed
- Reproducing a full guide requires written permission
- For interviews or longer-form citation, email and we’ll work it out