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How do I get my business shown in AI search?
You get named in AI answers by being corroborated elsewhere — mentioned by name, on sites the model already reads and trusts, consistently, over time. Your own website matters, but it is not the deciding input. The systems assemble answers out of what independent sources say about you.
Read the full answer →How do I know if ChatGPT mentions my business?
Ask it. Run twenty questions a real buyer would type across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Mode, and record who gets named. Run each question more than once, because retrieval is not deterministic and the same prompt can return different sources.
Read the full answer →Why does AI cite my competitor and not me?
Almost always because more independent sources describe them than describe you, not because their website is better. Citation follows corroboration. Where you rank well on Google but are never cited, the cause is usually structure — the page does not contain a passage that can be lifted and attributed.
Read the full answer →Do backlinks still matter for AI search?
Yes, and arguably more than before. Retrieval systems have to choose which of a thousand pages answering a question is worth citing, and they lean on the same authority signals search engines do: who links to you, who references you, and whether the wider web treats you as credible on the subject.
Read the full answer →How long does it take to show up in AI search?
Page-level fixes can change citations within weeks, because retrieval systems fetch live. Authority changes take months, because they depend on mentions accumulating across independent sources. Anyone promising a fixed timeframe is describing a system that does not behave that way.
Read the full answer →Want the answer for your category?
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