Editorial standards

Purpose

AEOArc publishes guides, tool pages, research notes, and daily AI-search briefings to help marketers understand LLMO, GEO, and AEO. This page explains how we produce that content so readers, search engines, and news classifiers can evaluate our trustworthiness.

We improve discoverability and measurement signals. We do not guarantee rankings, AI recommendations, traffic, leads, or revenue.

Primary vs secondary sources

Primary sources are preferred: official documentation (for example Google Search Central), peer-reviewed papers, vendor changelogs, and first-party product measurements from AEOArc scans.

Secondary sources (analyst blogs, news roundups, creator videos) may be cited for context, but we do not copy their claims without checking a primary or first-party source when the claim affects buyer decisions.

Fact-checking and claim safety

Every published page must avoid guaranteed-ranking language, fabricated statistics, and invented customer results.

Product claims about AEOArc must match live capabilities and collector status. When an engine is disabled or not configured, we say so (see /status and /methodology).

Competitive comparisons must use verifiable criteria (features, pricing signals, measurement honesty) rather than anonymous “best of” filler.

AI disclosure

AEOArc uses AI tools (including large language models) as drafting and research assistants for some guides, programmatic pages, and daily news briefings.

AI-assisted drafts are reviewed against editorial guardrails before publication. Source links for news briefings must resolve to real original coverage. Humans remain responsible for accuracy, framing, and final approval.

We do not publish undeclared mass-generated thin pages designed solely to manipulate rankings. Quality gates reject misleading guarantees and thin duplicates.

Editorial vs advertising

Product CTAs (free scan, pricing, signup) appear on educational pages and are labeled as product actions.

We do not sell pay-for-coverage placements inside editorial rankings. Sponsored or partner content, if any, will be disclosed on the page.

Updates and corrections

Material pages show last-updated dates. When facts change (engine policy, product limits, research citations), we update the same URL when possible rather than spawning duplicate thin pages.

Corrections, clarifications, and retractions are documented at /corrections.

Contact

To report an error or request a correction, email editorial@aeoarc.com or use /contact-sales with the subject “Editorial correction”.