Research, audits, and plain-language guides on Google visibility and AI search for local businesses.
Reddit is now one of the biggest inputs to how ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews pick which local businesses to recommend. If you've never been mentioned in a thread, you're invisible to AI. Here's why, and what to do about it.
Read more →I tested 571 AI queries for landscapers across Florida. 35% of the time, AI returned no recommendation at all. Landscaping has the lowest AI visibility of any industry I have measured. Here is why, and what to fix this week.
Read more →You typed the question. Nothing is wrong with your business. The problem is what AI tools can actually see about it, and the four things that fix it.
Read more →Someone searched “best [your service] near me” and Google answered with an AI summary at the top of the page. Three businesses got named. If yours wasn’t one of them, here’s why, and what actually moves the needle.
Read more →Someone in your service area just asked ChatGPT, “Who’s a good plumber near me?” A name came back. It probably wasn’t yours.
Read more →There's a growing category of tools that track whether AI mentions your business. But for most local service businesses, knowing you're invisible doesn't fix the problem. It just confirms it.
Read more →We queried ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google's AI Overviews for a managed print services company in Tampa. Out of 32 combinations, the business showed up twice.
Read more →3,468 queries. 5 industries. 5 AI platforms. 10 Florida metros. The pattern is the same everywhere: AI recommends local businesses by name, but every platform recommends someone different.
Read more →We ran 627 queries across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and Google AI Overviews in 10 Florida cities. 1,587 eye care practices were named. Not one appeared on all five platforms.
Read more →We ran 600 queries across Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity in 10 Florida metros. 95.4% of plumbers appeared on just one platform. Zero made all four.
Read more →We ran 600 real queries across four AI platforms, ten U.S. cities, and five home service trades. 80% of businesses were recommended by only one platform.
Read more →We checked 12 HVAC companies serving Mandeville, LA across Google, Yelp, Angi, BBB, and three AI search tools. The companies with the best ratings aren’t always the ones AI recommends.
Read more →We’ve run over 5,000 AI queries for local businesses. AI search doesn’t work like Google. Each platform recommends different businesses, and your Google ranking barely matters.
Read more →We checked 12 Metairie plumbing companies across Google and three AI platforms. AI consistently recommends five or six names. Everyone else is invisible.
Read more →We checked 11 yoga and pilates studios across Google, Yelp, ClassPass, and three AI search tools. Most of them are invisible to AI.
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