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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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[Map Pack] Why isn't AI recommending Cedar Park roofers when locals ask? (Teardown #1)
Question for this week: when a Cedar Park homeowner asks for a roofer, who gets named, and are they even in Cedar Park? The questions I asked (Thu Oct 29, 2026: Google about 7:36-7:45 AM CT, ChatGPT about 7:46-7:52 AM CT): 1. "Best roofer in Cedar Park TX" 2. "Who can fix hail damage on my roof in Cedar Park TX" 3. "Roof replacement Cedar Park TX" What came up: - Google map pack (all 3 questions): 3 businesses each time, from a small group of 4 roofers (not counting 1 sponsored ad on question 1). All 3 showed Cedar Park every time. - Google AI Overview, question 1: 5 roofers named. 1 listed in Georgetown; no other city shown. - Google AI Overview, question 2 (hail): 6 roofers named. Only 2 tied to Cedar Park. 3 listed in Austin, 1 in Georgetown. - Google AI Overview, question 3: no AI Overview shown. - ChatGPT (logged out, new chat each time): 5, 4 and 4 roofers (7 different ones in total). All but one listed in Cedar Park. One was described only as "serves Cedar Park". I'm not naming the businesses here, because none of them asked to be torn down. Screenshots below (Google map pack for question 3, Google AI Overview for the hail question, ChatGPT answer for question 1, all taken Oct 29, 2026) have names blurred. What stood out: - The hail question pulled in Austin roofers. The general "best roofer" question stayed mostly local. The specific hail-damage question named more Austin and Georgetown companies than Cedar Park ones. The usual reason: bigger-city businesses tend to have more pages and mentions about specific jobs like hail and insurance claims, so AI has something to quote for that exact question. - The map pack and the AI Overview didn't agree. The map pack (not counting ads) stayed 100% Cedar Park. The map pack leans on Google Business Profiles and distance. AI answers lean more on what websites, reviews and directories say. - ChatGPT and Google named different lists. Only one roofer showed up for all three questions in both Google and ChatGPT. Two roofers ChatGPT named never came up in Google, and one roofer that was in every Google map pack never came up in ChatGPT.
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The free Entity Health Check: see what AI "knows" about your business in 10 minutes
Before AI recommends you, it has to be sure of three things: who you are, what you do, and where you do it. "Entity" is just the fancy word for your business as AI and Google understand it. This check shows you what they currently believe. It's free, and you can run it tonight. Step 1. Open ChatGPT or Gemini (or both). Copy this, and swap in your own details where it says "your": I'm checking how AI understands a local business. Business: (your business name). Town: (your town and state). Website: (your website address). 1. In 2–3 sentences, what does this business do and where does it serve? 2. What are its name, address, phone number and hours, as you understand them? Say where you found each one. 3. If someone in (your town) asked you "who's a good (your service) near me?", would you mention this business? Why or why not? 4. List anything about this business that seems unclear, missing or inconsistent online. 5. Which 3 things would most help you recommend this business confidently for (your service) in (your town)? Step 2. Then ask it plainly, the way a customer would: "Who's a good (your service) in (your town)?" Note who gets named. Step 3. Write down: - Did it get your services and town right? - Did it get your name, address and phone right? - Were you named in Step 2? Who was instead? What to watch for: wrong or old phone numbers, a different town than you serve, services you don't offer, or "I couldn't find much." Each one is a clue. Heads-up: answers change by run, by person and by location. One run is a snapshot, not a verdict. Post what you found in Thursday's Ask Alex thread and I'll point out the first thing I'd fix.
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