Google's AI cited my client's LinkedIn post (https://www.linkedin.com/in/aadilstdo/) 11 times las...Google's AI cited my client's LinkedIn post (https://www.linkedin.com/in/aadilstdo/) 11 times las...
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M Aadil Ali
• Sep 10
Google's AI cited my client's LinkedIn post 11 times last month.
He wasn't writing for you. He was writing for ChatGPT.
 
Profile views tripled anyway. Inbound doubled.
If you're a consultant or founder posting three times a week, getting likes, and still waiting on inbound, this is the ranking game you're not playing.
 
AEO. Answer Engine Optimization.
 
Someone types a question into ChatGPT Search or Google AI Overviews. The answer comes with sources. LinkedIn posts are on that list.
Semrush ran 325,000 prompts. LinkedIn showed up in 14% of ChatGPT Search answers.
 
Most of those citations went to individual profiles, not company pages. Half came from accounts under 10,000 followers.
Quotability beat follower count.
 
What gets quoted (steal this):
 
1. One question per post
   → Line one is the exact question a buyer would type into ChatGPT.
2. A plain-English definition inside 3 lines
   → AI lifts clean sentences. It can't quote a vibe.
3. Your own dated numbers
   → "11 citations in August" gets cited. "Great results" doesn't.
4. A headline + About section that claim the topic
   → The model checks who's talking before it trusts the post.
 
Check yourself in 5 minutes: type your ideal client's question into ChatGPT Search and scroll the sources. If a competitor's post is there and yours isn't, that's your next topic.
The feed forgets your post in 5 days. An AI citation keeps answering for you for months.
(I'll say the uncomfortable bit: I think AEO beats the feed algorithm for inbound by 2027. Most coaches selling algorithm hacks won't like that.)
 
Two years from now: does a ChatGPT citation beat LinkedIn reach for inbound, or is AEO just SEO in a new hat? Pick a side.
-- M Aadil A.
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Jose Luis
• Sep 10
You turned boring acronyms into growth hacks.
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007 Gamer
• Sep 10
AEO feels like SEO’s cooler cousin after this.
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007 Gamer
• Sep 10
You made AEO sound like the next big inbound wave.
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Sobia Aslam
• Sep 16
That's unmatchhable 🔥
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Bayejid Hawlader
• Sep 18
WOW Linkedin Expert 🔥
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