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Search for AI SEO and you get two completely different topics: using AI tools to do SEO work, and optimizing your site so AI engines recommend your business. For a small business, the second one is where customers come from. Here's the difference, and the five-part starter plan.
AI engines don't rank pages. They decide which businesses they can confidently name. Entity SEO is the work of becoming a clearly defined thing an engine can recognize, verify, and cite: here are the four signals that build it.
Most AI visibility tools are built for marketing teams: prompt libraries, credit budgets, dashboards to babysit. Here's what the category actually offers a local service business, compared honestly, including where our own tool is the wrong pick.
A citation check tells you whether ChatGPT names your business today. It says nothing about next month. Here's why AI answers drift, why sites break silently, and the monitoring habit that catches both, whether you run it by hand or automate it.
AI engines cite pages they can read, answers they can lift, and businesses they can verify. Here are the four requirements that earn the citation, how ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini differ, and how to check whether you're cited today.
GEO comes down to four questions: can AI engines read your site, do they understand what your business is, is there anything worth citing, and do they actually name you today? Here are the 14 checks that answer them, in the order to run them.
Most 'best schema generator' roundups are affiliate farms. Here's an honest shortlist from an agency that writes JSON-LD every week: which free tools to trust, which to skip, and the one gap they all share.
Three metrics decide whether your site feels fast: LCP, INP, and CLS. Here's how to find the one that's actually dragging your mobile score down, and fix it without chasing the wrong number.
When a buyer asks ChatGPT 'who's the best [service] near me,' it names a few businesses. Here's the 5-step playbook to become one of them, starting with a 60-second test of where you stand now.
Two text files at the root of your domain decide how AI crawlers treat your site. Most owners have never touched either, and many are accidentally blocking the exact AI crawlers they want citing them. Here's how to fix both.
Three acronyms, one underlying shift. Here's what SEO, AEO, and GEO each actually mean, what's genuinely new in 2026, and which 'GEO tactics' are just old SEO advice with a new label.
Answer engines like ChatGPT, Claude, and Google's AI Overviews recommend businesses by name. Answer engine optimization is the technical work that makes yours one of the names they cite.
AI search engines decide whether to cite your business based on the structured data on your site. Most service-business websites have very little of it. Here's the paste-ready JSON-LD for the five schemas that matter, plus how each one tells ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google's AI Overviews how to read your business.
GPTBot made 569 million requests across Vercel's network in a single month. Most weren't readable. Here's what AI crawlers actually see on a typical website, and the three fixes that move the needle.