AI Search Optimization: Get Found on ChatGPT and Perplexity

AI assistants now recommend specific local businesses. Here is how they choose, and how to be the one they name.

AI assistants assemble answers from public signals they trust. For a local recommendation those are your Google Business Profile, your reviews, consistent information across the web, structured data on your site, and content that answers real questions.

The six things that get you named

Claim and fully complete your Google Business Profile
Get a steady flow of recent reviews and respond to them
Fix your NAP everywhere so it is perfectly consistent
Add LocalBusiness, Service, and FAQ schema to your site
Write content the way customers ask questions
Keep everything current; freshness is a trust signal

Test whether AI knows you exist

Open ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google
Ask: best [your service] in [your city]
Note if you appear and whether the details are right
Run the same test for your top competitors
The gap is your opportunity

Expect 60 to 90 days for signals to accumulate. Anyone promising instant AI rankings is not being straight with you.

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