Guides
Step-by-step how-tos for making your business easier for AI to find and recommend, from checking where you stand to fixing the technical gaps. Start with AI visibility for local business.
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How to Evaluate AI Visibility Tracking Tools in 2026
A single AI answer is a coin flip, so a tracker's number is only as good as how it was collected. Five questions to ask any vendor, the 2026 studies behind each, and a scorecard you can fill in during a trial.
How to Use ChatGPT to Find What to Fix for AI Visibility
A heating and air company with thousands of Google reviews was named in 2 of 39 AI answers last month. Here's how four plain questions to an AI assistant turned its tracking data into 24 sorted fixes, and how to ask them in ChatGPT.
How to Tell If AI Recommends Your Local Competitors
Twelve AI answers to one question named 24 different rivals, and the owner tracked four of them. Here's how to find out which competitors the assistants are sending your customers to, and what to do once you know.
How to Set Up an AI Search Visibility Dashboard
An AI search visibility dashboard is four feeds on one page. Two connect live, two you log each Monday. Here's the build, with our own site's Search Console numbers as the worked example, and these five questions to ask it every week.
Lighthouse Local Now Has an MCP Server
Connect Lighthouse Local to the assistant you already use and ask what AI says about your business, which questions skip you, and what to fix first. Read-only, your normal login, about five minutes to set up.
How to Use TypeSafe's Jev Model
A URL slug convinced our audit that a national software firm was a neighborhood shop. We handed the question to Jev, TypeSafe's new judgment model, and wrote down everything we learned about questions, thresholds, fallbacks, and limits.
What Does AI Say About Your Business?
Ask an assistant about your business and you get a set of claims, some wrong, some stale. Here's an eight-prompt audit to pull them out, a sheet to trace each one to its source, and the fixes that stick.
How to Improve Website Performance With AI
Your site is slow for its own reasons, and a generic list won't find them. Here's how to run Lighthouse in Chrome DevTools, read the report, and hand the real results to AI, round by round, until the score stops moving.
How to Track Your Brand's Visibility in AI Search
Ask an assistant the same question twice and you can get two different businesses. Here's how to track your brand's AI visibility as a rate instead of a snapshot, with four metrics and a scorecard.
What Is an XML Sitemap, and Does It Help SEO?
An XML sitemap is the page list you hand search engines. Here's what Google reads in it, what it ignores, whether a local business site needs one, and how to check yours in two minutes.
How to Speed Up Your Slow Website
Most slow sites are slow for the same few reasons, and images top the list. Here's how to speed up your website in order of impact, the biggest wins first, and how to hand the whole list to AI.
Core Web Vitals in Plain English
Someone told you your site "fails Core Web Vitals" and it sounded like a foreign language. Here's what LCP, INP, and CLS actually mean, how to measure them in Chrome, and how to fix them with AI.
What Is llms.txt, and Do You Need One?
More AI models read your site before they recommend anyone. An llms.txt file hands them a clean summary instead of your raw code. Here's what it is, whether you need one, and where it goes.
How to Check If AI Recommends Your Business
Your customers are asking AI for a business like yours. Here's a simple way to check whether the major assistants name you, read the answers like an auditor, and turn it into a habit.
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.