Local SEO Academy
Get named when someone asks AI for the best near them
How ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity pick local businesses, and how to be the one they name. The freshest, most open advantage in local.
Crack how AI picks a local business to nameWhen someone asks AI 'who's the best in town?', it names two or three businesses and stops. Understanding how it chooses is the whole game of local GEO.Be the answer to 'best near me'AI doesn't invent recommendations, it repeats what the web already says. To be the answer to 'best in town', be the business the web keeps pointing to.Turn reviews and mentions into AI trustWhen two local businesses look similar, AI leans on proof: how many people vouch for you, and who talks about you. Reviews and mentions are the trust currency of GEO.Show up in Google's AI answers for localGoogle is stitching AI answers into local search, naming businesses above the usual results. Being one of those names is as important as the map pack itself.Let the AI crawlers reach your pagesYou can do everything right and still be invisible to ChatGPT, because one setting you never touched is blocking the bots that read your site.