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title: "Step-by-Step AI Visibility Guides | The Lighthouse"
description: "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."
source: "https://www.lighthouselocal.ai/blog/category/guides"
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# 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.
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## 6 guides
[How to Track Your Brand's Visibility in AI Search Results
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.Will Colachis Sep 7, 2026 • 9 min readGuides](https://www.lighthouselocal.ai/blog/how-to-track-brand-visibility-in-ai-search) [Do You Need an XML Sitemap? What It Does for Your SEO in 2026
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.Saihajpreet Singh Sep 4, 2026 • 9 min readGuides](https://www.lighthouselocal.ai/blog/what-is-an-xml-sitemap) [How to Speed Up Your Website, Biggest Wins First
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.Will Colachis Aug 30, 2026 • 8 min readGuides](https://www.lighthouselocal.ai/blog/how-to-speed-up-your-website) [Core Web Vitals in Plain English, and How to Improve Yours
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.Saihajpreet Singh Aug 27, 2026 • 8 min readGuides](https://www.lighthouselocal.ai/blog/core-web-vitals-explained) [What Is an llms.txt File, 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.Saihajpreet Singh Aug 26, 2026 • 6 min readGuides](https://www.lighthouselocal.ai/blog/what-is-llms-txt) [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.Will Colachis Aug 19, 2026 • 6 min readGuides](https://www.lighthouselocal.ai/blog/how-to-check-if-ai-recommends-your-business)
Your AI visibility
## 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.
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