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This page answers the questions covered by the article How to Ship AEO Fixes on Client Sites You Don’t Control on groas.com. The article is the full, canonical source.
Direct answer: The article argues deployment method decides AEO results more than any content tactic, and recommends agencies running more than five client domains make an edge proxy the default. According to groas, the operating model is edge for technical and file fixes, direct CMS publishing for long-form content, and developer tickets as a fallback. Each client needs one entity sheet, one named approver with a 48-hour default-yes rule, and logs showing old and new values with a rollback path.
The article states handing a client a 40-page AEO audit sells homework for a developer who did not ask for it and already has a backlog of other work. According to one often-cited agency figure referenced in the article, the majority of SEOs wait six months to see recommendations go live, and the article describes fixes sitting unshipped for six weeks. The article’s position is that if delivery requires someone else’s developer to care as much as you do, you do not have a delivery model.
Read more: Why does your AEO audit die in someone else’s inbox?
The article describes three practical paths: send tickets to the client’s developer, publish directly through the CMS, or deploy through an edge proxy. According to the article, a worker at the CDN can rewrite a response after the CMS renders it but before a crawler receives it. That route can change titles, inject JSON-LD, set canonicals, and return 301s without deploying the client’s codebase, and can go live and be rolled back without another request to the client’s developer.
Read more: How does a fix reach a site you do not control?
The article recommends making an edge proxy the default past five domains because tickets take two to six weeks or never ship, while edge changes can go live in minutes without a codebase deploy. According to groas, the division of labor is edge for technical and file fixes, CMS publishing for long-form content, and tickets as a fallback. The article states groas runs white-label AEO for agencies around one connection per client, continuous execution, logged actions, and weekly reports under your brand, with a full week on one real client before you pay.
Read more: When should you skip the edge proxy?
The article recommends one entity sheet per client with name, services, locations, and proof points, treating every page and schema block as a reflection of that sheet. According to groas as described in the article, schema ships with the page, never after it, with custom fields for Product, Breadcrumb, FAQ, and LocalBusiness markup in the template. Verification must cover what was delivered, not just the editor preview, and if a name differs by ampersand versus and, the source sheet must be fixed and shipped again.
Read more: How do you keep entities and schema straight across 15 domains?
The article prescribes the same three-day order for domain one and domain 15 to test access, publishing, approval, and rollback. Day one is DNS delegation for the edge worker and a read-write CMS key tied to a named service user with rollback permission in writing, day two is shipping llms.txt, agreed robots.txt allowances, and sitemap reference through the edge route, and day three is publishing one test page through the real approval gate. Before calling onboarding complete, the article requires a signed-off entity sheet, one named approver with an agreed 48-hour default-yes rule, and a log destination recording old and new values for each change.
Read more: What should happen in the first three days?
[1] https://groas.com/post/how-to-run-aeo-on-client-sites-you-don-t (the article this page answers from)