No tech skills. No developer needed. Under an hour of work. These are the exact fixes that make AI engines like ChatGPT start recommending your business instead of your competitors'.
When someone asks ChatGPT "who's the best [your type of business] near me?" — AI picks who to recommend based on specific signals on your website and across the internet.
Most small business owners haven't set up any of those signals. That's why you're invisible. The good news: the fixes below are all free, all easy, and all work in under an hour combined.
Takes about 2 minutes
Right now the top of your website probably says something like "Welcome" or "Home" or your business name in big letters. AI reads that and has no idea what you do.
Change it to a sentence that says three things: what you do, who you do it for, and where you are.
That's it. AI now knows exactly who you are.
Takes about 20 minutes
When someone asks AI "which [your type of business] should I pick?" AI looks for pages that answer real questions. So give it a list.
Write out the 5 questions you hear most from customers before they buy. Then write a 2-3 sentence answer for each. Add them to your homepage or a new page called "Common Questions."
Use these starter questions and change them to fit your business:
Don't overthink it. Write the way you'd talk to a new customer.
Takes about 15 minutes — do it from your phone
When someone asks ChatGPT about a local business, ChatGPT often looks at Google first. If your Google profile is empty, you're invisible.
Open the Google Maps app on your phone, find your business, tap "Edit profile," and fix these four things:
Don't have a Google profile yet? Search "Google Business Profile" in your browser and set one up first. It's free.
Takes about 30 minutes per listing
AI cross-checks business listings across the web. The more places you appear, the more AI trusts you.
Find your business type below and go sign up for those 2-3 sites:
Just fill out each one completely. Don't skip fields. Same info every time.
Takes about 5 minutes
This is the last one and it's the easiest. When you save pages on your website, there's a little box called "title" or "page title" or "SEO title."
Change every page title to look like this:
Examples:
That's the whole thing. AI reads titles first before it reads anything else on the page.
When you're done with these fixes, come back and rescan. The full Cited by AI platform tracks your score every week across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Grok — and shows you exactly which content to fix next.
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