AI visibility for local businesses
For local questions, AI assistants name a few businesses and explain why. They pick the ones they can find and confirm: a claimed profile, consistent listings, clear pages and reviews that agree. Frontpagely measures where you stand across four engines and turns the gaps into a ranked list of fixes.
Local AI search in one paragraph
A local recommendation is a factual claim the engine cannot check in person, so it looks for agreement. Your name, address, phone, hours and services should read the same on your site, Google Business Profile, Bing Places, Apple Business Connect, Yelp and your industry’s directories. Disagreement reads as uncertainty. Our post on what AI assistants cite for local businesses breaks down the sources.
The local AI visibility checklist
- Claim and complete Google Business Profile, Bing Places and Apple Business Connect.
- Match your name, address and phone exactly across every listing.
- Add LocalBusiness schema (or your specific type) with areaServed and sameAs links.
- Publish one page per core service that answers price, timing and fit in the first two sentences.
- Ask happy customers for reviews that mention the service and the neighborhood.
- Allow AI search crawlers in robots.txt and keep pages fast.
- Measure the same buyer questions monthly and compare against the businesses named instead of you.
Built for owners, not analysts
Frontpagely gives you one number, the SeenRate, with the evidence underneath: each question, each engine, who was named and which sources were cited. The fix plan is written in plain steps, and the free plan measures every month. See pricing for faster cadences and the fix plan.
Frequently asked questions
How do I get my local business recommended by AI?
Make it easy to find and easy to confirm: claimed, consistent listings; structured data; pages that answer buyer questions; and specific reviews. Then measure the same questions over time.
Is a Google Business Profile enough?
It is the most important single listing, especially for Gemini, but ChatGPT and other assistants also read Bing, Apple, Yelp and industry directories. Consistency across all of them matters.
What does it cost to check my AI visibility?
The free audit is free and takes about a minute. A free account keeps measuring monthly.