AI visibility and local SEO: what each check can tell you.
Both depend on useful, accessible information about a real business. Their measurements answer different questions.
| Check | Question it answers | Limit |
|---|---|---|
| Technical readiness scan | Can we observe basic website access, indexing directives, business and contact signals? | One page, robots.txt and a sitemap. It does not confirm indexing or recommendations. |
| Local SEO review | How does the business appear in the observed search or Business Profile context? | Results depend on query, geography and time. Our audit includes limited context, not a comprehensive SEO audit. |
| AI recommendation audit | What did an agreed AI or search surface answer for a documented buyer question? | Answers vary. Mentions, recommendations and cited sources are separate observations. |
| Business attribution | Which verified purchases or inquiries can be connected to a source? | Missing consent, click identifiers or customer records create gaps. Visibility changes do not prove causation. |
The same correction can help several surfaces.
Suppose a plumbing business serves three cities but its website and profile show different areas. Confirming and correcting those facts improves the accuracy of the public information. A later recommendation may change, stay the same or vary across samples; the report should state what was observed.
Clear service pages, accurate contact information and permitted project evidence are useful to buyers. Google’s AI features guidance says existing search practices apply. No special AI file or schema is required. An authorized owner should also inspect the effective Search generative AI inclusion control.
Measure each outcome honestly.
Keep the technical check, search observation, recommendation response and booked-job data in separate records. Search Console’s Generative AI performance report shows link impressions in supported Google Search AI features. It complements sampled recommendation answers; it does not establish every business recommendation or booked job. A missing report is unmeasured, and exported zeros may represent values that were unavailable in the interface.
The audit plans 60 baseline attempts and 30 repeat attempts. Successful and unavailable results have separate counts; unavailable answers never become negative recommendations. Monthly service records completed work alongside comparable observations.
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