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How search and AI answers actually work.

The guides, definitions, research and troubleshooting pages behind the work. Written to be useful before you buy anything, and specific enough that you could run some of it yourself.

START HERE

The two long guides

If you read one thing, read the AI search guide. It starts with the eligibility checks, because a site AI crawlers cannot reach has no visibility problem worth discussing yet.

The AI search guide →
Thirteen parts on how AI search actually selects sources, platform by platform, with the eligibility checks first.
What marketing costs →
Ten cost guides plus trade-by-trade numbers, and how to read a proposal before signing it.
THE TERMS

What the acronyms mean

AEO, GEO, LLM SEO and AI visibility overlap heavily, and some of the distinctions are real while others exist to make a service sound new. Each page says which.

AI visibility →
The anchor term: being found, cited and recommended by systems that answer instead of listing.
Share of Answer →
The metric we report monthly, how it is scored, and what it cannot tell you.
Answer engine optimization →
What AEO means, where the term came from, and what it covers that SEO does not.
Generative engine optimization →
GEO defined, and an honest account of how much of it is new.
AEO versus GEO →
Two acronyms for overlapping work. Which distinction is real and which is marketing.
LLM SEO →
The newest label on the pile, and whether it describes anything the others miss.
Entity SEO →
Why engines resolve you as a thing before they rank you as a page.
Semantic SEO →
Meaning over keyword matching, and what that changes about how pages get built.
AI search optimization →
The umbrella term, and the six layers underneath it.
ChatGPT optimization →
What can be influenced, what cannot, and where the line honestly sits.
AI visibility score →
How a score gets built, and why an unauditable number is worse than none.
EVIDENCE

Data, experiments, and our own numbers

Everything here is either a public dataset we compiled with the method stated, or a measurement of our own business. Client results are not published without a signed release, which is why this section is thinner than most agency blogs.

Research and data →
Public-dataset compilations we ran ourselves, with the method and the limits published alongside.
Experiments →
Things we tested on our own site before recommending them to anyone.
Our own numbers →
We publish our own visibility monthly, including the months it does not move.
Sample monthly report →
What a client actually receives: the Work Ledger, three numbers, and the parts that went sideways.
WHEN SOMETHING BREAKS

Troubleshooting

The three failures that bring people to this site most often, each written as a sequence rather than a list of tips.

Business missing from Maps after verification →
The usual causes, in the order worth checking.
GBP suspension appeal denied →
What a denial actually means and what the second attempt needs to contain.
Reviews missing after reinstatement →
Why reviews vanish on restore, and what can be recovered.
POSITIONS

Where we disagree with the industry

These pages cost us business, and they stay up because a reader deciding against us on accurate information is a better outcome than a signature based on a guarantee nobody can keep.

Why we do not guarantee rankings →
Nobody controls the algorithm. A guarantee is a sales instrument.
Is SEO dead in 2026? →
The argument on both sides, and what the data supports.
Questions to ask before hiring an agency →
Twelve questions on method, measurement and conflicts, published so you can run them on us.
Agencies compared →
Named firms, what each is strong at, and where we are the wrong choice.
REFERENCE

Definitions, tools and method

Glossary →
Twenty-nine terms defined plainly, with the ones that are marketing rather than mechanism labelled as such.
Free tools →
Calculators for cost per lead, marketing budget, review velocity and Local Services Ads.
The methodology →
The five stages, published in order, so you can follow the work without a call.
FAIR QUESTIONS

Fair questions about this section

Is any of this gated?

No. There is no form on any page in this section, and no email required to read the guides or use the calculators.

Why is there no blog?

Because a post published to hit a keyword and never revisited is a liability. These pages are maintained and dated, and the ones that stopped being true get corrected or removed rather than left up.

Can I use this without hiring you?

Yes, and some of it is written so you can. The Visibility Check exists because most owners would rather see a measurement than read another guide, and the findings are yours either way.

How current is this?

Every page carries a modified date. AI search changes fast enough that anything over a few months old should be read with that in mind, including these pages.

A measurement beats another guide

A free Visibility Check runs twelve real buying questions across Google and AI answers, for your business and your market. No sales call required.

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