AI Mention Blog

Field notes on how AI search engines discover, evaluate, and recommend local businesses.

The Shift

How To Get Your Business Mentioned On ChatGPT

Being mentioned or cited on ChatGPT is not the same as being recommended. Here is what each one means, what makes a brand mentionable, and how to test it.

Plain English

Why You Can't Rank on ChatGPT (And What Matters Instead)

AI doesn't rank local businesses the way Google does. It recommends them, and the rules are different. Here is why the old ranking model doesn't fit AI search, and the questions that work instead.

The Shift

How To Get Recommended More Often By AI Search

Searches like 'how to show up on AI search' are climbing in the UK. Here is what AI actually looks at when it recommends a local business, organised into three tiers, with the contrarian point on schema landed.

Mythbusting

We Test The AI Models UK Customers Actually Use

Most AI visibility tools stop at four brand names. UK consumers are using more than that. Here is the lineup we test against, and why it changes as the market does.

The Shift

Why ChatGPT Recommends Some Local Businesses and Ignores Others

Something strange is happening in local search. A plumber in Leeds with hundreds of five-star Google reviews is completely invisible to ChatGPT. Meanwhile, a competitor who opened eighteen months ago keeps getting recommended.

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