Guides

Make AI recommend your business.

Plain-English, no-hype guides to every lever you control: the files AI reads, the facts it checks, and the habits that keep your answers right.

Guide 01

What Is AI Visibility? The Local Business Owner's Guide

AI visibility is how accurately and how often ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity recommend your business. Here's what controls it — and how to check yours free.

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Guide 02

How to Check What ChatGPT Says About Your Business (Free, 3 Ways)

Three ways to audit what ChatGPT tells customers about your business — manual prompts to try, what to look for, and a free automated scan.

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Guide 03

llms.txt for Local Businesses: What It Is and How to Create One

A complete llms.txt guide for local businesses — what the file does, what belongs in it, a copy-paste template, and how to publish it.

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Guide 04

LocalBusiness Schema: The 15-Minute Setup That Fixes AI's Facts

How to add LocalBusiness structured data to your site — what it fixes, a copy-paste JSON-LD template, category tips, and how to validate it.

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Guide 05

Why AI Gets Your Hours, Prices, and Address Wrong (And How to Fix It)

AI keeps telling customers the wrong hours or prices? The cause is almost always inconsistent business info across your web presence. Here's the fix.

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Guide 06

How to Get Your Business Recommended by ChatGPT: 7 Steps That Work

A practical, no-hype playbook for becoming the business AI assistants recommend: content structure, files AI reads, consistency, and measurement.

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Guide 07

AI Search vs. Google SEO: What Local Businesses Should Do in 2026

Do you still need Google SEO if customers ask ChatGPT instead? How the two overlap, where they differ, and how to invest a small business's limited time.

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Guide 08

Google AI Overviews and Your Local Business: Survival Guide

AI Overviews now answer local queries before the map pack. What feeds them, how to show up, and how to protect the clicks you still need.

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Guide 09

AI Citation Tracking for Affiliate Sites: Which Articles Get Cited?

AI answers 'best X' questions from a handful of articles and ignores the rest. How affiliate and review sites can audit citation rates per article — and win more of them.

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