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Fact-checked answers for small business owners about AI search: how ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews find and recommend businesses, and what you can do about it.
How Does Perplexity Choose Its Sources? What Its Own Docs Say (and What They Don't)
What Perplexity's own documentation says about crawling, ranked search results, citations, freshness, domain and location filters, and what a small business can actually control.
Read the article →Is Your Website Blocking ChatGPT? How to Check robots.txt, Your CDN and Bot Protection
How to check whether robots.txt, your host or CDN bot protection is blocking OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot and Googlebot — and what OpenAI, Perplexity, Google and Cloudflare actually document.
Read the article →Google AI Overviews and Small Businesses: What Changed and What to Do
What Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode changed for small business websites, what Google says it takes to appear, what you can ignore, and a short action list.
Read the article →How Does ChatGPT Decide Which Local Businesses to Recommend?
What OpenAI actually documents about how ChatGPT finds and recommends local businesses, what it doesn't, and a practical checklist for small business owners.
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