AI Visibility
How ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI decide which businesses to recommend, and how to show up when your customers ask.
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How AI Answer Engines Source Content vs. Traditional Search (2026)
Google ranks a page and sends a click. An AI answer engine fans out a dozen searches, reads passages, and cites a handful of sources, often without a link. Here's how each machine picks what it uses, with 2026 data.
Top-Rated AI Search Visibility Tools for Small Businesses in 2026
Ten AI search visibility tools, scored on five things a one-location business cares about. Free snapshots, trackers under $50, the band where coverage fills out, and the prompts to load on day one.
AI Search Visibility Is a Revenue Channel. Here's How to Earn It.
AI answers already send buyers who convert better and spend more. Here's the 2026 research on how the assistants pick what to cite, a worked revenue calculation you can copy, and the order to fix things in.
Where AI Gets Its Data About Your Local Business (2026)
Nearly 2 million logged citations show exactly where AI assistants pull local business facts from. The list is shorter than you'd guess, and you can claim every spot on it.
SEO vs. AEO, and Why You Now Need Both
Ranking on Google and getting recommended by AI are two different games. Here's the difference between SEO and AEO, why you can win one and lose the other, and how to cover both.
How to Get Your Business Recommended by AI
When a customer asks AI for a business like yours, only a few names come up. Here's how AI decides who to recommend, how to check where you stand, and what to fix to get named more often.
See where AI recommends you, and where it doesn't
Lighthouse Local tracks all five platforms, shows who's getting named instead of you, and turns every gap into a plain-English fix.