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GEO: Generative Engine Optimization

A framework and benchmark to optimize content for Generative Engines (GEs) and boost visibility in AI-driven search.
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Key Features

Overview

GEO is a black-box optimization framework designed to improve how content is cited and surfaced by Generative Engines (LLM-powered “generative engines”). It introduces GE-specific visibility/impression metrics and practical optimization strategies for content creators. The GEO-BENCH benchmark includes 10,000 queries (split into 8,000 training, 1,000 validation, 1,000 test) where each query is paired with five cleaned source documents and annotated with 50+ domain tags to enable targeted evaluation. Reported results indicate empirical visibility gains up to about 40% in certain settings, with larger relative improvements for lower-ranked sites and domain-specific optimizations. The work invites community participation through a public leaderboard hosted on Hugging Face Spaces and provides a reproducible workflow via a GitHub repository with setup instructions (conda environment example, pip install -r requirements.txt) and guidance for adding custom GEO functions (src/geo_functions.py). Related resources include the arXiv paper (abs and PDF), the GEO-BENCH dataset page on Hugging Face, and references in ACM/KDD proceedings.

Details

Developer
generative-engines.com
Launch Year
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Updated
2026-01-19

Features

Black-box optimization framework

Introduces GEO as a black-box optimization framework to improve how content is cited/surfaced by generative search engines.

GE-specific metrics

Proposes visibility/impression metrics tailored to Generative Engines (GEs).

GEO-BENCH benchmark

Benchmark of 10,000 queries with 8K train, 1K validation, 1K test, each with five cleaned source documents and 50+ tags.

Empirical improvements

Reports improvements up to ~40% visibility gains in certain settings, particularly for lower-ranked sites and domain-specific interventions.

Public leaderboard

Calls for community participation via a public leaderboard hosted via Hugging Face Spaces to track methods and progress.

Reproducible workflow

GitHub repo with setup instructions (conda env, pip install -r requirements.txt) and guidance for adding custom GEO functions.

Screenshots

GEO: Generative Engine Optimization Screenshot
GEO: Generative Engine Optimization Screenshot

Pros & Cons

Pros

  • Substantial visibility gains reported (up to ~40%) in certain experiments
  • Standardized evaluation via GEO-BENCH
  • Public leaderboard to encourage replication and progress
  • Reproducible workflow with concrete setup instructions

Cons

  • Gains vary by domain and baseline rank
  • Not a finished product; pricing not provided
  • Requires access to datasets and code for reproduction

Audience

ResearchersAssess GEO framework and GEO-BENCH setup and results
Content creatorsUnderstand GEO strategies to improve content visibility
DevelopersReproduce GEO experiments and run GEO code locally

Tags

Generative EnginesGEOGEO-BENCHcontent optimizationvisibility metricsLLMsbenchmarking