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Millions of buying decisions now start — and end — inside an AI answer. AEO is the work of making your business that answer. What it is, why the field is still wide open, and where to start.
Read the post →Your next customer might never see your website — they'll ask an AI who to call. The six-item checklist that decides which business gets named: schema, llms.txt, citable answers, and consistency.
Read the post →Template builders were a defensible call in 2019. In 2026, slow loads, bloated code, and sameness are losing you business in three measurable ways. Here's how to tell — and what a rebuild really costs.
Read the post →Smart Mode is a donation to Google. Expert Mode, negative keywords, conversion tracking, and tight match types turn ads into arithmetic you can read like a P&L. The playbook we run on our own businesses.
Read the post →Page one in a KC suburb isn't won by budget — it's won by doing unglamorous things correctly while competitors don't. What actually moves local rankings here, and what's a waste of money.
Read the post →Five agencies, five answers, two orders of magnitude. The honest market breakdown — including our own $1,500 number, because pricing you have to book a call to learn isn't pricing.
Read the post →Your GBP decides whether you appear in the map pack — the box above every regular result. The complete afternoon pass: categories, consistency, photos, and the review habit that compounds.
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