The death of keywords? How AEO is rewriting the rules of SEO in 2025
There was a time when SEO was simpler. You picked a high-volume keywords, wrote around 1,500 words, built a few backlinks, and waited for the traffic to roll in. In 2025, that playbook will slowly retire or take a back seat, to make way for something sharper, user-centric. The rapid integration of AI into search, from Google’s AI Overviews to the dominance of Perplexity and ChatGPT emerging as the new search engines for users has fundamentally changed the game, for the better. Users are getting what they want, better tailored to them. Business websites are not competing for a spot on a results page anymore; they are competing to be the cited source in a generated answer. AI tools have made writing faster; they have also forced us to stop writing just for algorithms and start writing for Answer Engines . Here is how AI is reshaping the landscape of content and SEO in 2025, and how you can adapt for more visibility. What is this shift from SEO to AEO? The biggest ...