When your customers ask AI who to hire, does your name come up?
How to get your business found by ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Google AI. In plain English, for people who do not write code.
Search just changed under our feet.
For 20 years, people Googled and scrolled through ten blue links. Today they ask AI a question and get one answer. No scrolling. No page two. Just a recommendation, delivered like advice from a friend.
The question is simple: is that answer you?
If AI does not know you exist, you are invisible at the new front door.
Your future customers are already asking AI for recommendations. "Who should I hire for this?" "What is the best tool for that?" If the AI has never heard of you, you never get mentioned. You do not even know you lost the lead.
The good news? Almost nobody is doing this yet. Early movers win.
SEO, AEO, GEO. In plain English.
Same goal, three doorways. You want to show up in all of them.
SEO
Search Engine Optimization. Showing up when someone types into Google. The classic. Still matters.
AEO
Answer Engine Optimization. Being the answer when someone asks an AI assistant a question.
GEO
Generative Engine Optimization. Getting named and cited inside AI-written answers and summaries.
How AI decides who to recommend.
It is not magic and it is not random. AI reads the web, builds a picture of who you are and what you do, and then recommends the businesses it understands and trusts. So your whole job comes down to three things.
Can it reach you?
The AI has to be allowed in to read your site.
Can it understand you?
It has to clearly get who you are and what you offer.
Can it trust you?
It has to verify you are real and credible.
Get found by AI in 3 moves.
No code. No agency. No huge budget. Just three moves you can start this week, plus one bonus that puts you ahead of almost everyone.
1 · Open the door
Let AI in to read your site.
2 · Introduce yourself
Tell AI exactly who you are.
3 · Earn the trust
Prove you are real and credible.
Open the door.
If the AI crawlers cannot get into your website, nothing else matters. First, make sure you are letting them in and leaving them a clear map.
- ✓ Allow AI crawlers in your robots.txt instead of accidentally blocking them.
- ✓ Add an llms.txt file, a short, plain-language summary of your business written for AI to read.
- ✓ Keep a clean sitemap so AI and search engines can find every page.
Introduce yourself.
Do not make AI guess who you are. Spell it out in language both people and machines understand, and keep it identical everywhere.
- ✓ Add structured data (schema), a hidden label that tells AI your name, what you do, and where you are.
- ✓ Publish an EntityMap, one page that lists who you are, your offers, and your proof in a clean, machine-readable way.
- ✓ Write a clear About page in plain words, the way you would explain your business to a friend.
- ✓ Use the exact same name, details and links on every site and profile. Consistency builds confidence.
Earn the trust.
AI recommends what it can verify from sources it already trusts. Show up in those places and the AI starts to believe you are the real deal.
- ✓ Get an entry on Wikidata, the fact database that feeds Google and the major AI models.
- ✓ Claim your Google Business Profile and keep your reviews fresh and answered.
- ✓ Earn mentions on sites AI already trusts, podcasts, directories, press, partners.
- ✓ Submit your site to Bing Webmaster Tools, which feeds ChatGPT and Copilot.
Get ready for AI agents.
The next wave is not people searching, it is AI agents shopping and booking on their behalf. There is a brand-new standard that lets agents discover what your business offers. The spec is weeks old. Almost no small business has it. That is your opening.
An AI catalog
A simple file at a standard address that tells AI agents what you offer and how to work with you.
A verifiable identity
A way for agents to confirm your business is who it says it is. Trust, built for machines.
I did every bit of this last week.
This is not a list I read in an article. I just rebuilt my own site to do all of it. Today we open the hood and look at the real thing.
AI can read it
robots.txt opens the door, llms.txt and a clean sitemap leave the map.
AI understands it
Schema on every page and a 45-item EntityMap spell out the whole business.
AI trusts it
Live Wikidata entities, Google Search Console and Bing all submitted.
Three moves. Start this week.
- 1 Open the door. Let AI in and leave it a map.
- 2 Introduce yourself. Tell AI exactly who you are, the same way everywhere.
- 3 Earn the trust. Get verified and cited where AI already looks.
You do not need to be technical. You need a room that walks you through it.
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