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AI Search Readiness

How to Show Up in ChatGPT: A 5-Step Guide for Service Businesses

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.

Josh Winningham ·
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AI Search Readiness Schema / Structured Data

llms.txt and robots.txt: How to Tell AI Crawlers What to Read

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.

Josh Winningham ·
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AI Search Readiness

AEO vs GEO vs SEO: What Actually Matters (and What's Just Hype)

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.

Josh Winningham ·
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AI Search Readiness

What Is Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)? A 2026 Field Guide

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.

Josh Winningham ·
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Schema / Structured Data AI Search Readiness

The 5 Schema Types Every Service Business Should Have

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.

Josh Winningham ·
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AI Search Readiness

Why ChatGPT Can't See Your Website (and the 3 Fixes That Matter)

GPTBot fetched 569 million pages last year. Most weren't readable. Here's what AI crawlers actually see on a typical website — and the three fixes that move the needle.

Josh Winningham ·