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Google & AI Search Visibility, Answered
Clear, practical answers to the questions small and local businesses ask about getting found on Google and AI search tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini.
How to Get Your Small Business Found in ChatGPT & AI Search
To get a small business surfaced by ChatGPT and other AI search tools, make your business easy for machines to understand and trust: publish clear, direct answers to the questions customers actually ask, add structured data (schema) so engines can identify what you do, keep your business name, address, and phone consistent everywhere, earn genuine reviews, and make sure AI crawlers are allowed to read your site. These are the same foundations the engines themselves reward — and the work behind our 7-Day Visibility Rescue.
What Is AEO and GEO? A Plain-English Guide for Small Businesses
Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) are the practice of structuring your content so AI-powered tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity can accurately understand, summarize, and represent your business. Instead of only optimizing for traditional search crawlers that rank links, you make your content easy for AI systems to read and cite — through direct answers, structured data, and consistent, trustworthy business information.
What Does AI-Search Optimization Cost?
Pricing for AI-search (AEO/GEO) optimization varies widely: DIY tools run roughly $79–$499/month, and many agencies charge small and local businesses about $1,000–$2,500/month for ongoing AI-optimization retainers, with mid-market and enterprise programs costing far more. The 7-Day Google & AI Visibility Rescue is a fixed $497 one-time engagement that implements the core foundations in a week, with an optional $497/month Visibility Growth retainer only if you want ongoing work.
Why Isn’t My Business Showing Up in AI Search?
A business is usually missing from AI search for a few fixable reasons: it has no structured data (schema) so engines can’t clearly identify it, its content doesn’t directly answer the questions customers ask, its business information is inconsistent across the web, it has few recent reviews or third-party mentions, or AI crawlers are blocked from reading the site. Fixing these foundations makes a business far easier for AI systems to understand and surface.
How to Appear in Google AI Overviews (Local Business Guide)
Google AI Overviews compose answers from web content Google can crawl and trust, favoring sources with clear structure, consistent business information, and strong local signals. To position a local business for inclusion: keep a complete, consistent Google Business Profile, add LocalBusiness and FAQ schema, publish pages that answer specific local questions directly, and earn genuine, recent reviews. Inclusion can never be guaranteed, but these foundations make it far more likely.
AEO vs. Traditional SEO: What’s the Difference?
Traditional SEO optimizes to rank web pages as links in search results. Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) optimize so AI systems can understand your content and represent your business accurately in the single answers they compose. They share foundations — clear content, technical health, trust signals — but AEO adds an emphasis on direct answers, structured data, and consistent, verifiable business information.