SEO vs. AEO vs. GEO: What’s the Difference (And Why Your Marketing Team Now Needs a Glossary)

SEO vs. AEO vs. GEO comparison illustrating search engine, answer engine, and generative AI optimization.
SEO vs. AEO vs. GEO: Three approaches to improving visibility across traditional search engines, direct-answer platforms, and generative AI.

If you’ve spent any time in a marketing meeting over the past year, you’ve probably heard someone drop “GEO” into a sentence and watched half the room nod like they knew exactly what that meant. They didn’t. Nobody does — not fully, anyway. The truth is, the industry is still arguing about the definitions in real time, which is a very reassuring thing to build a strategy around.

But here’s what we do know: the way people find information is splitting into three lanes — search engines, answer engines, and generative AI — and each one plays by slightly different rules. Let’s break them down.

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Why Next.js Suddenly Wants You to “await” Everything (Including Your Patience)

Retro computer displaying Next.js code using await with dynamic route params
Next.js 15+ treats dynamic route params as Promises, which means Server Components need to await them before accessing values such as id or slug.

If you just upgraded a Next.js project and your dynamic route page started throwing errors about params, welcome to the club. Somewhere between one version and the next, the Next.js team quietly decided that params — the innocent little object that hands you your dynamic route segments like id or slug — is no longer a plain object. It is now a Promise. Yes, a Promise. The same thing you get back from fetch(), except this time it’s just holding a string.

This one change trips up a shocking number of developers, mostly because the error message Next.js gives you is about as helpful as a fortune cookie. So let’s break down exactly what’s happening, why it’s happening, and how to fix your code without losing your mind (or your afternoon).

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