Guides
Plain-English guides to AI and local search
Short, practical, and honest about what is and isn’t known.
How AI assistants choose which local businesses to recommend
What ChatGPT, Google AI and Perplexity draw on when someone asks who to call, and the parts a small business can actually influence.
5 min read
Are you blocking AI crawlers? How to check and fix it
The AI and search crawlers that matter for local visibility, how robots.txt and firewalls can block them by accident, and how to decide your training policy.
6 min read
Google Business Profile: the 10 changes that matter most for AI search
Your Google Business Profile feeds Maps, local search and the AI features built on them. These ten changes have the biggest effect.
5 min read
llms.txt explained: what it is and whether you need one
A plain-English look at llms.txt, who uses it, what the major AI companies have said, and where it fits in your priorities.
4 min read