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PRACTICAL GUIDE
Get Your Local Business Recommended by AI
The 30-Day Owner's System for Visibility in ChatGPT, Google AI, Gemini, and Perplexity - for Local Service Businesses
By Mercer Lane · Published by Mercer Lane Press
A practical 30-day system for local service businesses to improve the public evidence that AI and search systems can discover, understand, corroborate, and evaluate.
WHO IT IS FOR
For readers who want a practical, structured way forward
Owners and marketing leads at local service businesses who want a practical way to improve and measure AI-assisted visibility without relying on hype or guaranteed-ranking claims.
Problems the book helps you work through
- Conflicting business facts across websites, profiles, and directories
- Service and location pages that do not clearly explain fit
- Unclear evidence about why a business is or is not surfaced in AI answers
WHAT IT COVERS
Inside the book
Service and location clarity
Reviews and proof
Third-party corroboration
Crawlability and structured data
Repeatable AI visibility testing
PRACTICAL OUTCOMES
What the book is designed to help you do
A cleaner, more consistent public business footprint
Stronger service pages built around real customer decisions
A defensible testing and measurement routine
SEARCH BY THE PROBLEM
Improve AI search visibility so local businesses are easier to understand and verify
Current searches around AI search visibility, ChatGPT SEO, local AI SEO and getting a business recommended by AI reflect a new discovery problem. The book focuses on the public evidence AI and search systems can read, corroborate and cite rather than promising guaranteed recommendations.
Questions this guide is designed to help with
- How do I get my local business recommended by ChatGPT?
- What is AI search visibility for a local business?
- Does a business website still matter for AI recommendations?