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Research, audits, and plain-language guides on Google visibility and AI search for local businesses.

How It WorksMay 1, 2026

Why your local business needs to show up on Reddit (even if you've never used it)

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.

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How It WorksApril 26, 2026

ChatGPT visibility for landscapers: why AI skips you more than any other trade

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.

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How It WorksApril 26, 2026

I run a plumbing company. When I ask ChatGPT for plumbers in my city, it doesn’t mention me. What am I doing wrong?

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.

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How It WorksApril 26, 2026

How to rank in Google’s AI Overviews when you run a local business

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.

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How It WorksApril 14, 2026

Why your plumbing business is invisible to ChatGPT (and what to do about it)

Someone in your service area just asked ChatGPT, “Who’s a good plumber near me?” A name came back. It probably wasn’t yours.

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ComparisonApril 9, 2026

AI Monitoring Dashboards Won't Tell You Why You're Invisible

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.

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AI VisibilityApril 7, 2026

We Ran 32 AI Queries for a Tampa Business. It Was Cited Twice.

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.

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Original ResearchApril 5, 2026

3,468 AI Queries, 5 Industries, 1 Pattern: Every Platform Recommends Someone Different

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.

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Original ResearchApril 5, 2026

97.8% of Florida Eye Doctors Are Invisible on Four Out of Five AI Platforms

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.

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Original ResearchApril 4, 2026

We Asked 4 AI Platforms to Recommend a Florida Plumber. They All Said Someone Different.

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.

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Original ResearchApril 1, 2026

We Ran 600 AI Queries for Local Service Businesses. Only 23 Made It Onto All Four Platforms.

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.

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AI VisibilityApril 1, 2026

We Asked AI for an HVAC Company in Mandeville. It Recommended a 1.7-Star Franchise.

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.

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How It WorksMarch 31, 2026

What AI Search Actually Is (and Why Your Google Ranking Doesn’t Help)

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.

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AI VisibilityMarch 30, 2026

We Asked AI to Find a Plumber in Metairie. It Only Knows 5 of Them.

We checked 12 Metairie plumbing companies across Google and three AI platforms. AI consistently recommends five or six names. Everyone else is invisible.

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AI VisibilityMarch 29, 2026

We Asked AI to Recommend a Yoga Studio in New Orleans. Here’s What Happened.

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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