Guide Series: draft preview
9 guides on how AI search actually finds, trusts and cites a business. Internal draft, not for search engines.
Guide 1 How AI Actually Finds You
What ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity actually check before they'll recommend a business over its competitors
Guide 2 The Technical Checklist
The exact site fixes that get you crawled, indexed and cited by AI search, not just ranked on Google
Guide 3 How to Build a Website for SEO and AI Search
Choosing a website build that Google and AI crawlers can actually read, trust and quote from
Guide 4 What to Build on Your Site to Get Cited
The specific pages and assets that earn your business a mention inside a ChatGPT or AI Overview answer
Guide 5 Proving You're Real
How to get Google and ChatGPT to trust that your business genuinely exists and is who it says it is
Guide 6 Where Your Brand Needs to Appear
The platforms beyond your own website that convince AI search your business is legitimate
Guide 7 Are You Actually Being Cited?
How to find out whether ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI are really mentioning your business, because your normal analytics probably can't tell you
Guide 8 Research Nobody Else Has
How to create the one kind of content AI search engines have no choice but to cite
Guide 9 Building Authority Across Multiple Brands
How to stop AI treating your other websites as unrelated, unproven strangers to each other