How ChatGPT Chooses Which Businesses to Recommend
ChatGPT names your competitor when someone asks for a recommendation in your field. The next day, same question, it names someone else. A week later it mentions you, then drops you again. It feels random, and that makes it hard to know what to fix. It is not random, but it is not a fixed […]
Google AI Mode: How to Appear in Google’s Conversational Answers
Google search used to hand you ten blue links and let you choose. Google AI Mode hands you one written answer and names a few sources inside it. If your business is not one of those sources, you are not in the answer, and for a growing share of searches the answer is all people […]
How Perplexity Chooses Its Sources and Citations
A look under the hood at how Perplexity selects, ranks and cites the sources behind its answers, and what that means for your pages. Ask Perplexity a question and you do not get a page of links. You get a written answer with small numbered citations beside each claim, and a list of the sources […]
Gemini SEO: How to Appear in Google Gemini Recommendations
A practical guide to how Gemini chooses what to recommend, and the Google groundwork that puts your brand in its answers. Someone in your area opens the Gemini app, or asks Google a question in its new conversational way, and types the kind of request your business exists to answer. A moment later Gemini replies […]
Perplexity SEO: How to Get Your Brand Cited in Perplexity Answers
A practical guide to how Perplexity chooses its sources, and the steps that make your brand one of the names it cites. Picture a buyer in your town opening Perplexity and typing the exact question your business was built to answer. A few seconds later they get a confident, well organised reply with a short […]
How to Defend Your Brand Against AI Hallucinations
Imagine a customer asks an AI about your business and is told, with complete confidence, something that is simply not true: that you have closed down, that you do not offer a service you do offer, that your prices are double what they are. The customer believes it, because the AI sounded certain, and quietly […]
Localised SEO for LLMs: What Has Changed
If you have spent years doing local SEO, you have earned a fair question: does any of it still count now that customers ask AI for recommendations instead of scrolling a page of local results? It is a reasonable worry, and the honest answer is reassuring. Almost everything you built still matters. What has changed […]
Which Industries Are Being Disrupted Most by AI Search
AI search is not arriving everywhere at the same speed. In some industries, customers already ask an AI tool for a recommendation before they do anything else, and the businesses that appear in that answer are quietly winning the work. In others, the old habits still hold, and AI is a distant rumble rather than […]
The AI Visibility Stack: What Sits Behind Being Recommended
When an AI tool recommends a business, it can look like a single event. The customer asks, the name appears, and you either made the cut or you did not. But behind that one moment sits a whole set of things working together, and understanding them is the difference between hoping to appear and knowing […]
Schema Markup for AI Search: Which Types Matter and How to Add Them
An AI tool reading your website is doing something harder than it looks. It has to work out, from your words alone, who you are, what you offer, where you operate, and whether you can be trusted. Most of the time it manages, but it is guessing, and guesses can be wrong. Schema markup is […]
