Where local business gets cited.
A weekly read on AI visibility for local business owners. From Anna Curry at Top of Search. Every Thursday at 11 a.m.
Goody goody.
Google wired Gemini into Google Business Profiles, and AI Overviews now hit an estimated 30 to 40 percent of searches. Here’s the free setup checklist, plus what a 50-year-old Wilmington omelet house can teach you about getting cited.
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Just wispr it.
Google was forced to give publishers an AI opt-out, and it turns out you already have one too. Here’s the setting that decides what AI learns from your business, and why the same two names keep getting cited.
The assistant you can’t afford.
Every major AI engine now lets you save a reusable workflow instead of starting over each time. Here’s how to build your first one in under 30 minutes.
Caught in the storm.
Google just put Preferred Sources inside AI Overviews and AI Mode, badging chosen businesses right in the answer. Here’s how to test if you qualify, and the move to make if you do.
AI made a guest list.
Ask three engines for the best business in your town and they name the same three. Here’s what that pattern means for getting your name in the answer.
Fetch this dog spa.
When ChatGPT thinks, it stops recommending the obvious names and starts citing the specific ones. Here’s how to make sure your business is in that answer.
WOOF’s paw is on every AI engine.
AI engines cite new pages in 6.81 days. Why deep expertise is your unfair advantage in AI search, plus the ChatGPT Ads window just opened.
AI just out-diagnosed the ER.
Harvard found AI more accurate than ER doctors at triage. The lesson for every local business: AI isn’t replacing you. It’s making whoever uses it well noticeably better than whoever doesn’t.
Name that taco.
Yelp launched an AI Assistant that recommends and books in one chat. Here’s how to find out if it names your business, and what to do if it doesn’t.
Long live the Marlboro Man.
Three customers asked AI about your business today. Here’s the 30-minute audit to find out what AI is saying, where the gaps are, and what to fix first.
May flowers.
55% of consumers say AI will replace traditional search within two years. Where the landscaping window is open right now, and the May flowers Cited is sending to a local florist.
Do you like me?
Your customers are asking ChatGPT who to trust before they ever call. This issue shows you what AI is saying about local businesses like yours.
Anna Curry is the founder of Top of Search, a marketing consultancy in Wilmington, NC that helps owner-operated local businesses get cited by AI search engines. She has worked in marketing since 2008 and writes Cited, a weekly newsletter on AI visibility for local business owners.
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