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Start here: Why isn't AI recommending your business when locals ask?
I'm Alex Rodriguez. I run AlexSEO in Cedar Park, Texas. People don't just Google anymore. They ask Google's AI Overviews, ChatGPT or Gemini things like "Who's a good roofer near me?" The answer usually names two or three businesses. Lots of good local businesses never get named. This community works on one question: Why isn't AI recommending your business when locals ask, and what can you change? We test it live in Cedar Park, my town, with real local businesses (with their permission, or anonymized). Cedar Park is our lab, and every town is welcome. What you'll find here: - Cedar Park Teardowns (Mondays): one local question, who AI recommended, and why, in plain English. - Cedar Park Lab (Wednesdays): what I'm building and testing, like site pages and FAQs, and what it changes. Wins and misses. - Becoming the Answer (Thursdays): short explainers on AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Gemini answers, the map pack (the 3 businesses Google shows with a map), and your Google Business Profile. - Ask Alex: a monthly thread for your questions. A few promises from me: - I give the full answer in public. Nothing gets held back. - I won't invent results or promise rankings. AI answers change from run to run, so I show the date and the exact question for every screenshot. - No DMs pitching you. Ever. Your first step: run the free Entity Health Check (next post in Start Here). It takes about 10 minutes. AlexSEO · Cedar Park, Texas · alexseo.co
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I built a prompt library because most AI prompts give you mush. 🫏
Smartass Prompts is tested prompts for real business work: review replies, local service pages, a week of social posts, fixing bad AI answers. I made the site and this video with AI tools, the same way I build for clients. One new prompt every Tuesday. No fluff. smartassprompts.com/newsletter
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5050AI: How to Use Gemini Browser for SEO - EP 1
1. Introduce the 50-50 AI workflow and the goal of the demo 0:00 - Frame the video as a human + AI collaboration: - Alex brings experience, judgment, and context. - AI brings speed, pattern recognition, and pressure testing. - State the purpose of the demo: - Show how to use Gemini in Chrome. - Demonstrate a practical, underused tool that everyone can access. - Set expectations: - This is a live workflow, not a polished case study. - The goal is to show how AI can help analyze a real business site. 2. Pick a real local business and inspect the search results 0:48 - Use a real query to keep the example grounded: - Search for something like “painters for roofs near me”. - Scan the results page like a user and an SEO: - Note paid ads. - Note map pack results. - Identify the first organic listings. - Choose one business to analyze: - In this case, Ranger Painting. - Ask the key first-impression question: - Can you tell in 5 seconds who they are, what they do, where they work, and how to take action? 3. Check the site’s current positioning and identify dilution 1:55 - Copy the business URL and inspect indexed pages using a site: search. - Look for signs of weak focus: - Multiple pages targeting different locations at once. - Mixed intent across Cedar Park and greater Austin. - Call out the core issue: - The site is fragmented. - One page is trying to serve too many audiences. - Explain the SEO implication: - A focused page for one location and one intent usually performs better than a diluted page. 4. Run the Deep Entity Visibility Scan prompt in Gemini 2:36 - Use a prepared prompt called Deep Entity Visibility Scan and AI Retrieval Reinforcement. - Paste the business website into the prompt and submit it in Gemini. - Show the exact prompt on screen for transparency. - Explain why this matters:
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[AI Overviews] Myth: "More reviews will make AI recommend me"
I hear this one a lot: "I just need more 5-star reviews and AI will start recommending me." Reviews matter. But on their own, they usually aren't enough. What's actually going on: when someone asks "who's a good plumber in Cedar Park for a water heater?", the businesses that show up more often make three things easy to find: - does that service (water heaters, not just "plumbing"), - does it there (Cedar Park, not just "Central Texas"), - and is trusted (yes, reviews help here). A business with lots of reviews but a website that never says "water heater" or "Cedar Park" gives AI two of the three things to guess at. What helps reviews do more work: detailed reviews that mention the job and the town are useful when customers write them on their own. You can't script reviews, and Google doesn't allow asking for specific wording or only asking happy customers. Keep one open ask for every customer: "If you have a minute, a Google review about your visit helps neighbors find us." Do this this week: 1. Read your last 10 reviews. How many mention a specific service? A town? 2. Check that your main service page names that service and your town in the first two lines. 3. Reply to recent reviews by naming the service ("Glad the water heater install went smoothly"). It's natural and helpful. Always follow Google's review rules: no paying or rewarding people for reviews, no asking only happy customers, and no requesting specific wording.
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[Map Pack/ChatGPT] Google showed this Cedar Park dentist first. Why didn't ChatGPT name it? (Teardown #2)
This week's question: can a dentist show up in Google Maps and still get skipped when someone asks ChatGPT? The questions I asked (Thu Nov 5, 2026, about 7:44-7:47 AM CT): 1. "Dentist in Cedar Park TX accepting new patients" 2. "Good family dentist in Cedar Park TX that takes Delta Dental" 3. "Emergency dentist Cedar Park TX open Saturday" What came up: - Question 1, Google map pack: 3 dentists, no ads in the pack. Google's AI Overview named 5 Cedar Park dentists, including 2 of those 3. - Question 1, ChatGPT (logged out, new chat): 5 dentists. None of the 3 map pack dentists. Only 1 of the 5 was also in Google's AI Overview. - Question 2 (Delta Dental): Google's AI Overview named 4 Cedar Park dentists. The map pack showed 3 different ones, one of them in Leander. ChatGPT named 5, none from the map pack. - Question 3 (Saturday emergency): the closest agreement. Google's map pack and AI Overview shared 3 dentists, and 1 dentist showed up in the map pack, the AI Overview and ChatGPT. The business I looked at: the first dentist in the map pack for question 1. ChatGPT didn't name it. I'm not naming it, since it didn't ask to be torn down. Screenshots below (Google AI Overview and map pack for question 1, ChatGPT's answer to question 1, all from Nov 5, 2026) have names blurred. Public signals I checked on its website and Google listing: - New patients: yes, and it's in plain text on the contact page ("We are accepting New Patients of all ages"). Good. - Insurance: no list of plans on the pages I checked (home, contact, finance, emergency), and no mention of Delta Dental. Just "we work with a number of dental insurance carriers." - Hours: the website and Google match (weekdays, closed Saturday), so it didn't appear for the Saturday question. - Phone: I found three different phone numbers for the office across its website, its Google listing and search results. What stood out: - Google and ChatGPT barely agreed on the broad question. Google's map pack leans on the Google Business Profile, distance and reviews. For question 1, ChatGPT cited the 5 dentists' own websites, so what a site says in writing seems to matter more there.
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