# Myth: this is just SEO with new words

Classic SEO optimizes for a ranked list of blue links. Answer engines read, summarize, and cite — and increasingly buy. Robauto optimizes for being readable, quotable, and transactable by machines, then measures whether machines actually showed up.

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_What is Robauto? A Guided Walkthrough — lesson 10 of 13 (MYTH)_

Classic SEO optimizes for a ranked list of blue links. Answer engines read, summarize, and cite — and increasingly buy. Robauto optimizes for being readable, quotable, and transactable by machines, then measures whether machines actually showed up.

Source: [Robauto — AI search data](https://robauto.ai/ai-search-data)

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