# seo-aeo-best-practices

A skill with SEO and AEO guidance: metadata, Open Graph, sitemaps, robots.txt, hreflang, JSON-LD and EEAT. Useful while you build pages and want search engines and AI answers to pick them up.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 7300 installs · ★ 194
- Author: sanity-io
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/sanity-io/agent-toolkit/tree/HEAD/skills/seo-aeo-best-practices/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/seo-aeo-best-practices

## What it does

The skill hands your agent four reference files. `references/technical-seo.md` is a checklist for metadata, sitemaps, hreflang and robots.txt. `references/structured-data.md` holds JSON-LD patterns for Article, FAQ, Breadcrumb and Product. `references/eeat-principles.md` covers EEAT implementation and author schema, and `references/aeo-considerations.md` deals with AI Overviews and crawler management.

It works as a reference, not a code generator. The agent opens the one file that matches the task and leans on it while writing meta tags, schema markup or crawl rules. That makes it most useful during page build and content edits rather than after launch.

Each platform gets its own copy: Claude reads `~/.claude/skills/seo-aeo-best-practices/SKILL.md`, Cursor reads `.cursor/skills/seo-aeo-best-practices/SKILL.md`, Codex reads `.agents/skills/seo-aeo-best-practices/SKILL.md`. If your project already has metadata conventions, they will fight with this skill, so decide which one wins before the agent starts editing templates.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add sanity-io/agent-toolkit --skill seo-aeo-best-practices -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/seo-aeo-best-practices/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/seo-aeo-best-practices/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add sanity-io/agent-toolkit --skill seo-aeo-best-practices -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/seo-aeo-best-practices/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add sanity-io/agent-toolkit --skill seo-aeo-best-practices -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/seo-aeo-best-practices/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install sanity-io/agent-toolkit seo-aeo-best-practices
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/seo-aeo-best-practices/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add sanity-io/agent-toolkit --skill seo-aeo-best-practices -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/sanity-io/agent-toolkit --path skills/seo-aeo-best-practices
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/seo-aeo-best-practices/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add sanity-io/agent-toolkit --skill seo-aeo-best-practices -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/sanity-io/agent-toolkit/tree/HEAD/skills/seo-aeo-best-practices/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- write metadata and Open Graph tags for a page
- generate JSON-LD for an article, FAQ or product card
- audit technical SEO: sitemaps, robots.txt, hreflang
- score a draft against EEAT principles before publishing
- prepare content for AI Overviews and answer engines

## Example prompts
- add Article JSON-LD markup to the blog page
- check the metadata and Open Graph tags on this page
- generate a sitemap and robots.txt for the site

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: seo-aeo-best-practices
description: SEO and AEO best practices for metadata, Open Graph, sitemaps, robots.txt, hreflang, JSON-LD structured data, EEAT, and content optimized for search engines and AI answer surfaces. Use this skill when implementing page SEO, technical SEO, schema markup, international SEO, AI-overview readiness, or improving content for Google, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and similar assistants.
---

# SEO & AEO Best Practices

Principles for optimizing content for both traditional search engines (SEO) and AI-powered answer engines (AEO). Includes Google's EEAT guidelines and structured data implementation.

## When to Apply

Reference these guidelines when:
- Implementing metadata and Open Graph tags
- Creating sitemaps and robots.txt
- Adding JSON-LD structured data
- Optimizing content for featured snippets
- Preparing content for AI assistants (ChatGPT, Perplexity, etc.)
- Evaluating content quality using EEAT principles

## Core Concepts

### SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
Optimizing content to rank well in traditional search results (Google, Bing).

### AEO (Answer Engine Optimization)
Optimizing content to be selected as authoritative answers by AI systems.

### EEAT (Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness)
Google's framework for evaluating content quality.

## References

Start with the one reference that matches the task, such as technical SEO, structured data, EEAT, or AI-answer readiness. See `references/` for detailed guidance:
- `references/eeat-principles.md` — EEAT implementation and author schema
- `references/structured-data.md` — JSON-LD patterns (Article, FAQ, Breadcrumb, Product)
- `references/technical-seo.md` — Technical SEO checklist (metadata, sitemaps, hreflang, robots.txt)
- `references/aeo-considerations.md` — AI/AEO considerations (AI Overviews, crawler management)
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