Tier 1 · SEO
The foundation AI search is built on.
Search engine optimization still decides whether an answer engine can read your store at all. RAMRAD treats SEO as infrastructure: crawlable architecture, clean structured data, collection and product pages that resolve to real intent, and topical authority deep enough that both crawlers and models treat your domain as a source. It is the least fashionable tier and the one every other tier depends on.
Definition
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
SEO is the practice of making a site readable, trustworthy, and relevant to search engines. In an AI-search era it is also the foundation answer engines depend on: a page a crawler cannot reach is a page no model can cite.