What AI assistants read
When someone asks for a dog groomer in Bryant, the assistant pulls from search indexes, map listings, review sites and business websites. If your listings disagree with each other, or your website never says what you do and where, you’re easy to leave out.
Seven things to fix
- Finish your Google Business Profile: the right category, every service, your service area, your hours and real photos.
- Use the same name, phone number and hours everywhere: Google, Bing Places, Apple Business Connect, Yelp, Facebook and Nextdoor.
- Have a website that says plainly what you do, in which towns, and how to reach you, with a page for each main service.
- Add structured data to the site: a small block of code that tells machines your business type, hours, area and services.
- Ask every happy customer for a review. Reviews that mention the job and the town help most; never script them or pay for them.
- Answer the questions customers ask on the phone (prices, areas, how soon) on your site, in plain words.
- Once a month, ask an assistant for a business like yours in your town. If it gets you wrong, find where it read that and fix it there.
What not to do
Skip anyone selling a guaranteed spot in AI answers; nobody controls what an assistant says. Skip near-identical pages for every town with only the name swapped, which Google treats as spam. And never add keywords to your business name on Google, which breaks its guidelines and can get the listing suspended.
Where I fit in
Every Jabeco Studio site is built with this in place: the pages, the structured data, your Google profile, and listings on Bing and Apple Maps. Get Ranked ($249 a month) keeps it current: your listings checked, one new page a month and a monthly check of what AI assistants say about you. If you’re keeping a site someone else built, a one-time Search Tune-up is $495.
See how SEO and AI search work here.