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How this actually works.

No gated PDFs and no gimmicks. These are the explanations we give clients, published in full — including the parts where the honest answer is that nobody knows yet.

5 min read · updated 2 October 2026

GEO vs SEO vs AEO — what the terms actually mean

Three acronyms, a lot of vendor noise, and one distinction that genuinely matters for a local business.

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8 min read · updated 3 October 2026

LLM SEO — what it is and what actually works

For people who already do SEO: what changes when the destination is a generated answer rather than a ranked list, and which familiar levers still pull.

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5 min read · updated 5 August 2026

Does ChatGPT recommend med spas?

Yes — and it names one to five specific businesses. Here is where those names come from, and why your practice may not be among them.

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6 min read · updated 5 August 2026

Why isn't my practice showing up in ChatGPT

Six causes, ranked by how often they turn out to be the real one — and how to check each in under an hour.

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5 min read · updated 5 August 2026

How AI engines choose which business to name

Four engines, four different indexes. What each one reads, and why being named by one tells you nothing about the other three.

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6 min read · updated 6 August 2026

Why Bing Places decides your ChatGPT visibility

The listing almost no healthcare operator has claimed, and the single most common reason a practice is invisible to two of the four major AI engines.

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6 min read · updated 6 August 2026

How many reviews before AI recommends you

The observed threshold, why recency matters as much as volume, and the point at which more reviews stop helping.

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7 min read · updated 3 October 2026

How to rank in ChatGPT

The eight things that decide whether ChatGPT names a local business, in the order worth fixing them — and the three that matter most.

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7 min read · updated 3 October 2026

How to rank in Google's AI Overviews

AI Overviews run on Google's own index, which means the work is different from ChatGPT — and closer to local SEO than most operators expect.

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6 min read · updated 24 August 2026

How Perplexity picks local businesses

The one engine that shows its sources, why community discussion carries unusual weight, and what that makes it useful for.

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7 min read · updated 12 August 2026

Why AI sends GLP-1 patients to telehealth

Assistants name national telehealth brands when asked where to start weight loss. The reason is structural, and the winnable query is a different one.

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6 min read · updated 12 August 2026

Does RealSelf affect AI recommendations

Why assistants answering "best rhinoplasty surgeon" resolve to a named individual rather than a practice, and which sources decide that name.

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7 min read · updated 12 August 2026

Google Business Profile for AI search

Which fields actually influence whether an assistant names you, which are decoration, and why a perfect profile still only covers half the engines.

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7 min read · updated 12 August 2026

How AI decides which dentist to recommend

Three things make dental different from every other local category — urgency, insurance, and a directory most practices have never claimed.

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6 min read · updated 12 August 2026

Why AI names the treatment, not your studio

Recovery and wellness queries are asked by modality, not by brand — which changes what you optimise, and makes every new location start at zero.

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7 min read · updated 8 September 2026

Meta ad policies for Botox and aesthetics

What Meta prohibits in cosmetic and injectable advertising, why most med spa creative breaks it, and the mistake that gets an account restricted.

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