“SEO is dead” has been said every few years since 2010, and it has been wrong every time. What actually happened this time is that a second front door opened next to the first one — AI assistants now answer buying questions directly, and the businesses winning there are doing recognizable SEO work, just aimed … Read more
Short answer: Schema.org markup helps, but AI models also lean heavily on clean HTML structure — real headings, real lists, real tables — and on consistent facts repeated across a site, not just formal markup. Schema gets most of the attention in structured-data conversations, but it’s one signal among several. A page can be highly … Read more
Short answer: “Near me” searches increasingly get answered as a short, conversational AI response rather than a scrollable map with ten pins — which means fewer businesses get shown at all, and getting left out is more costly. For years, “near me” meant a map with a handful of pins and a scroll-through list. That’s … Read more
Most local businesses post to Google Business Profile once, then stop. The businesses we see winning the map pack consistently post two to three times a week, using real, specific content instead of generic updates here’s what actually works. Why posting frequency matters at all A Google Business Profile post is not a set-and-forget listing … Read more
Short answer: Ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google a handful of realistic customer questions about your industry and location, and track whether your business gets named, how accurately, and which competitors show up instead. A basic AI visibility audit doesn’t require special software — it requires asking the same questions a real customer would ask, and … Read more
Short answer: Topical authority means having enough genuinely useful content around a subject that both search engines and AI models treat you as a credible source on it, not just a single page that happens to rank. A single well-optimized page can still rank for its exact keyword. But when an AI model is deciding … Read more
Schema markup does not rank your page higher on its own. What it does is hand search engines and AI models a structured, unambiguous version of facts they would otherwise have to guess at from your page’s prose — your address, your hours, your services, your FAQ answers see how we audit schema for clients. … Read more
Short answer: Voice search is a spoken query answered aloud, usually short and local. AI chat search is a typed or spoken conversation that can go several turns deep. They overlap heavily, but chat search allows for more context and follow-up. The two get lumped together because both rely on natural-language queries instead of keyword … Read more
Short answer: Review volume alone doesn’t guarantee a citation, but recent, detailed reviews give an AI model more specific language to draw from when it’s deciding how to describe your business. Reviews have always mattered for local trust signals. For AI answers specifically, they’re doing double duty — both as a trust signal and as … Read more
A healthcare logistics client of ours saw Google traffic grow 46% in a single month, while their AI-assistant citation rate fell by more than half over the same period. Those two numbers moving in opposite directions is the story every business needs to understand about the current search landscape see how we caught it. The … Read more