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Replied in An AI engine states the wrong hours and services for my business. How do I fix it?
You cannot edit an engine's answer directly, so you fix what it reads. Wrong facts almost always trace back to a source that is out of date or that disagrees with another one. Find the source. Ask the engine the question again, on an engine that shows…
Replied in Why am I in the map pack near my office but nowhere a few miles away?
No. Local results are built around the searcher's location, and Google describes local ranking as a mix of relevance, distance, and prominence. Distance is measured from where the person is when they search, not from the center of your service area. That is…
Replied in Why am I in the map pack near my office but nowhere a few miles away?
Why one rank number misleads. Google says local results are mainly based on relevance, distance, and prominence. Distance is measured from the searcher, so your position changes from block to block. A single rank check describes one point on the map. A grid…
Replied in Why am I in the map pack near my office but nowhere a few miles away?
Nobody can sell you a better position. Google's help page says there is no way to request or pay for a better local ranking. Anyone selling a guaranteed map pack spot is selling something Google says does not exist. What you control is relevance, through…
Replied in Why am I in the map pack near my office but nowhere a few miles away?
Watch the name, address, and category rules. A business name stuffed with keywords, a P.O. box, or a rented mailing address where you do not operate can get a profile suspended or make it ineligible. If you serve customers at their location and have no…
Replied in How do I tell whether an SEO vendor is doing real work?
Look at ownership, scope, and outcomes. Good vendors are comfortable showing all 3. Ownership You own the analytics property, the Search Console property, and the Google Business Profile, with the vendor added as a user. If a vendor holds the only login, you…
Replied in How do I tell whether an SEO vendor is doing real work?
Questions to ask on a first call. Ask which 3 pages they would change first on your site and why. Ask what they would measure at 30, 60, and 90 days. Ask for a sample report and a sample change log with client details removed. A vendor who cannot answer…
Replied in How do I tell whether an SEO vendor is doing real work?
Set up access before anything else. If a vendor will not add you as an owner on your own Search Console and analytics properties, assume you will not be able to leave with your history. Create the properties yourself and add the vendor as a user.
Replied in How do I tell whether an SEO vendor is doing real work?
If the vendor sells AI visibility work, ask how answers are collected, how often, and with what settings. Nobody can guarantee a mention. A fair offer is tracking, fixes, and reports that show the method.
Replied in A new client asks how we will measure results in the first 90 days. What do I say?
Tell them what will be measurable at each stage, and agree on it in writing before work starts. Days 1 to 30: baseline and fixes Record the starting numbers: organic sessions, conversions or calls from organic, rankings for target keywords, map pack…
Replied in What is share of voice in AI answers and how is it calculated?
Share of voice in AI answers measures how often your brand appears compared with the other brands tracked for the same prompts. There are 2 common ways to calculate it, and tools do not always say which one they use. Answer coverage. Answers that mention…
Replied in What is share of voice in AI answers and how is it calculated?
A worked example, with made up numbers. Say you collect 20 answers. Your brand is named in 8 of them, so your mention rate is 40%. A competitor is named in 12, a mention rate of 60%. Mention rates across competitors can add up to more than 100%, because one…
Replied in What is share of voice in AI answers and how is it calculated?
Report each engine separately. A blended average across engines can hide a big gap. Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode are a good example. Ahrefs compared 540,000 pairs of responses to the same queries and found the two features cited the same URLs only 13.7%…
Replied in How do I get more Google reviews without breaking the rules?
Ask every customer, make it easy, and never pay for the answer. What works Ask at the right moment. Right after the job is done or the purchase is complete, while the experience is fresh. Send a direct link. Your Google Business Profile has a link that opens…
Replied in How do I pitch AI visibility to clients who have not heard of it?
Show them their own results before you explain anything. Run a small test. Take 8 to 10 questions a customer would ask about the client's category and location. Run them on ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and 1 or 2 other engines. Capture who is named and…
Replied in Do I need to track all 9 AI engines or just ChatGPT and Google?
Start where your customers are, then widen when the data tells you to. For most local and small business questions, ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews are the practical starting pair. That is also what the Doily Free plan covers: 3 prompts weekly on those 2…
Replied in Do I need a separate page for every town I serve?
Only where each page can say something true and specific. A page that swaps the town name into the same paragraph adds nothing for a reader and can look like a doorway page, which Google's spam policies treat as a problem. Build a town page when you can fill…
Replied in Why do rank trackers show different positions from Search Console?
Both are right. They measure different things. Search Console's average position is an average across every impression your page received for that query in the period. Those impressions came from different people in different places, on different devices…
Replied in Search Console says "Crawled, currently not indexed". What should I do?
This status means Google visited the page and chose not to add it to the index, at least for now. It is a quality and priority decision, not a technical error, so the fix is usually on the page and around it. Common causes: Thin or duplicate-like content…
Replied in Search Console says "Crawled, currently not indexed". What should I do?
Rule out the mechanical causes first. Before you judge quality, inspect the URL in Search Console and compare the canonical you declared with the one Google selected. Open the live page and confirm it returns 200 and that the main text is in the HTML Google…
