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Specialist6 lessons · ~2h · Specialist tier

Ecommerce & Product AEO

Get products recommended and cited by AI shopping — product pages, feeds, buying guides, reviews, and the shift to agentic commerce.

By Burke Atkerson, Founder & Principal AEO Strategist

What you'll learn

  • Optimize product pages and catalogs to be cited by AI shopping.
  • Get products recommended by AI.
  • Structure product feeds for AI shopping surfaces.
  • Understand the signals behind AI product recommendations.
  • Win inclusion in AI buying guides.
  • Prepare a catalog for agentic commerce.

Syllabus

  1. Ecommerce AEO FoundationsHow product pages and catalogs get found, cited, and recommended by AI shopping — the ecommerce foundation.Reuses: AEO for E-commerce: The Industry Playbook
  2. Get Products RecommendedThe reviews, specs, and corroboration that make AI name your product when someone asks for the best option.Reuses: How to Get Your Products Recommended by AI
  3. Product Feeds for AI ShoppingStructuring your catalog data so AI shopping surfaces can read and surface your products — clean, accurate, current feeds.Reuses: Product Feeds and Schema for AI Shopping
  4. How AI Recommends ProductsThe signals behind 'best X for Y' answers — and how to be the product AI names.Reuses: How Does AI Recommend Products?
  5. Win AI Buying GuidesHow to be the product or source AI cites when it assembles a buying guide — comparative, well-evidenced, corroborated.Reuses: How to Write AI Buying Guides That Get Cited
  6. Agentic CommerceAI agents that research, compare, and even buy on a user's behalf — and what that means for product visibility and data.Reuses: Agentic Commerce: When AI Agents Do the Shopping

Specialist tier · Tier 3 Specialist Certificate

Finish all 6 lessons to earn your Tier 3 Specialist Certificate.

Complete every lesson and pass the knowledge checks to claim a shareable Tier 3 Specialist Certificate — proof you've mastered Ecommerce & Product AEO. Practitioner certificates stack toward full AEO mastery.