What I found locallyI checked 340 Rockford businesses across 97 trades.
For each trade I ran the one question a customer would actually type, then looked for the company’s own website in the results. 165 of the 340 never showed up at all. Almost half. Most of their websites were perfectly decent. Fast enough, mobile, nice looking.
Then I put the same questions to an AI assistant and asked it to name a few places, the way it would for a real person. Out of 340 businesses, it never mentioned 243 of them. 71.5%. 18 of the ones it skipped were sitting in Google’s top three at the time.
A page holds ten links. An answer holds three names. Your website being fine is not the same as your website being found.
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