Traditional SEO optimizes entire documents for search engine indexation, whereas snippet optimization focuses on crafting extractive grounding chunks that AI models select and prioritize within their context windows.

flowchart TD
    subgraph Traditional["Traditional SEO"]
        direction TB
        A1[Full Webpage] --> B1[Search Index]
        B1 --> C1[Whole URL Rank]
    end

    subgraph Grounding["AI Grounding"]
        direction TB
        A2[Full Webpage] --> B2[Extractive Snippet]
        B2 --> C2[LLM Context Window]
        C2 --> D2[Citation Decision]
    end