Because it has not read about you anywhere except your own website. AI assistants build a recommendation from third-party list pages and the plain sentences on each business's own site, so a business nobody else describes is easy to leave out.

8 September 2026 · 5 min readData: 5 Claude answers, 8 September 2026

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of consumers asked ChatGPT for a business recommendation in the last 12 months, making it the most-used AI tool for the job

31%

BrightLocal, Local Consumer Review Survey 2026 (US consumers, n=1,002)

chatgpt · aeo · seo · local

How do I get my business to show up in ChatGPT as well as Google?

Be on the pages the AI engines read, say plainly what you do and where, and check by asking ChatGPT the way a buyer would, several times. The crawlable pages that rank in Google are the same pages ChatGPT reads before it recommends anyone, so the work overlaps far more than the two acronyms suggest.

6 September 2026 · 5 min

chatgpt · web-design · manchester · spot-check

Which web design agencies does ChatGPT recommend in Manchester?

CTI Digital and MadeByShape were named in all five ChatGPT answers, in a run that turned up ten Manchester agencies in total. None of the five ranked its picks, and every name arrived attached to a job type instead.

3 September 2026 · 4 min

For Yorkshire micro weddings with 30 guests & under, I offer a competitive hourly rate: £400 base + £100 each hour, with a minimum 3 hours, maximum 6. E.g. 3 hours would be £700.

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pricing · aeo · chatgpt · spot-check

Should you put your prices on your website?

Yes, if you want AI answers to do the selling for you. When we asked ChatGPT to recommend a wedding photographer in Leeds, every price it quoted sat on a page it could read, and the businesses that hide their prices got the buyer sent away to ask.

3 September 2026 · 3 min

of consumers used AI to find a local business in the past year, up from 6% the year before

45%

BrightLocal, Local Consumer Review Survey 2026 (US consumers, n=1,002)

search-console · seo · measurement

What is Google Search Console and why should you use it?

It is a free Google account that reports on your own site: which searches your pages appeared in, what got clicked, and which pages Google never indexed. Use it because it records the exact words real buyers typed to find you, and those are the words you now have to answer.

3 September 2026 · 3 min