While preparing your business for AI readiness, you may wonder what local SEO basics like citations and listings management services have to do with answer engines (AE) and their optimization (AEO). Well, it turns out to be quite a bit. Clean, consistent local business citations, quality content and reliable, robust directories all affect trust signals in AI-based search and answer engine queries. Today we’re diving into another example from ChatGPT to find out how to set up your clients for success in the AI Age.
Build Trust for AI Search With Quality Business Citations
When it comes to local search, consistent business citations are foundational. Making sure the business name, address and phone number (NAP data) matches across owned and public platforms sets it up to be found in various search applications. No matter how much AI changes local search, this key tactic remains the same.
AI improvements are constantly moving forward, but trusted, credible business data that can be indexed by search engines remains a vital component in building strategies for search, whether traditional or AI-powered. Working with a reputable listings management partner to ensure complete, accurate citations reporting to the right directory networks and verticals helps establish these necessary trust signals. But with so many directories out there, how do you know which ones answer engines trust?
Which Local Business Directories Does ChatGPT Trust?
With citations sorted out and easy access and updates taken care of, now it’s time to make sure citations are in the right directories. To learn which directories are trusted by answer engines, I asked ChatGPT directly. Remember, when it comes to answer engines (Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity, Grok, etc.), queries are like conversations. Setting parameters helps AEs return the best data.
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