When someone asks ChatGPT who to call, it should say your name.

Sounds like you

The problem

Assistants quote whoever answered the question plainly.

An assistant builds its answer from pages it can find and trust: a specific answer in the first sentence, a price, a place, a name, and the same facts everywhere else on the web. Most small business websites say "quality service since 1998" and answer nothing, so the assistant names somebody else. The fix is ordinary work done carefully, then measured.

What you get

Pages worth quoting, listings that agree, and a weekly number.

• The questions your buyers ask. A list of the real ones, checked against search data and against what the assistants say today.
• Answer pages. One page per real question, with the answer in the first two sentences and the specifics after it: prices, steps, places.
• Listings that agree. Google Business Profile, Bing Places, LinkedIn, and your industry directories, with the same name, place, and services everywhere.
• The technical layer. Structured data, a sitemap, IndexNow, and an llms.txt file.
• A weekly measurement. Bing AI citations, Google AI impressions, and search clicks, saved every week so you can see the trend instead of guessing.

How it works

Questions

Before you hire this, people ask

• Does AI-written content rank on Google?Yes, AI-written content can rank, because Google judges whether a page is useful, not who or what typed it. Mass-produced filler written to game rankings gets ignored or penalized. What works is an AI draft that a person with real experience edits, adding the facts, prices, and first-hand detail only your business has, which is also what AI assistants look for when they pick a page to cite.
• Does my small business need a new website?Yes, if two or more of these are true when you open it on your phone: it loads slow, the phone number is hard to find, the words are vague, it looks like a template, or nothing has changed since before 2023. A new small-business site starts at $6,000 and takes four to eight weeks.
• How do I get my business mentioned by ChatGPT?Answer the questions your buyers ask, in plain sentences, on pages that say who you are, where you are, and what things cost. Keep your name, address, and services the same everywhere you are listed, get mentioned on sites assistants already trust, and measure it with the AI citation reports in Bing Webmaster Tools, because nobody's guess is reliable. On my own appraisal firm's site, Bing Copilot citations went from 835 to about 2,100 between readings five weeks apart.
• How do I improve my small business's Google ranking?Do the basics in order: finish your Google Business Profile, make your name, address, and phone match on every listing, ask for reviews and reply to all of them, and give each service its own page with a price. Then make the site fast on a phone and watch Google Search Console. I set up a Google Business Profile for $600, and a one-hour check-up is $150.
• How do I show up in Google AI Overviews and AI Mode?Write pages that each answer one buyer question in the first sentence, rank for those questions on regular Google, add structured data, keep your Google Business Profile complete, and get mentioned on other sites Google trusts. Nobody can buy placement in AI Overviews or AI Mode. Google Search Console shows how often you appear, and on my own appraisal firm's site Google AI impressions went from 689 to about 1,450 in 90 days.
• How do I track whether ChatGPT mentions my business?Start with the free sources: Bing Webmaster Tools reports Copilot citations, Google Search Console reports impressions from Google's AI features, and GA4 shows visits referred from chatgpt.com, perplexity.ai, and other assistants. Add a fixed list of buyer questions you ask each assistant once a month, logging who gets named. Read the numbers weekly and compare them to last month; paid trackers exist, but they come after the free setup.
• How much does AI search optimization cost?With me, AI search starts with a one-hour check-up for $150. A Google Business Profile done properly is $600, and answer pages come with a website from $1,500. Ongoing work runs inside a fractional CMO seat from $3,500 a month (about two days a month), or at $150 an hour.
• Is a Google Business Profile worth it?Yes, for any business that serves customers in a place, including service-area businesses that go to the customer. It is free, it puts you on Google Maps and in the local results, and Google and the AI assistants read it when they answer questions about businesses near someone. Setup done properly by me is $600.