STEP TWO: LOCAL SEO & AI VISABILITY
get found by people —
and by the AI
answering
for them
Local SEO for Chattanooga businesses in the categories Google scrutinizes hardest. Three months to a technically clean foundation, real local authority, and a site that AI assistants actually cite — then we keep going.
When someone asks AI who's best in town,
somebody gets named.
Search isn’t ten blue links anymore. When a buyer asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google’s AI Overviews “who’s the best [your industry] in Chattanooga?” they get one answer. Maybe three.
That answer gets pulled from content that’s structured, clearly attributed, locally specific, and formatted for machines to read. Not the prettiest website. The most legible one.
Right now, almost every business in this market is completely invisible to that layer, not because they’re bad at marketing, but because nobody told them the rules changed. I build your site to be the source those tools quote.
Schema markup
Code that tells machines exactly who you are, what you do, and where in their language.
Entity clarity
One consistent identity across the web so AI can confirm you're real and licensed.
AI-ready content
Written at the length and specificity these tools prefer to cite.
Structured answers
Direct answers to the questions locals actually type, already marked up to be quoted.
Do you show up in the AI summary on Google with your current online catalogue?
✦ the honest diagnosis
why you're invisible right now
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Competitors own your searches
Code that tells machines exactly who you are, what you do, and where in their language.
📌
Your listings disagree
Old addresses, wrong numbers, ghost profiles from past employers. Google reads that as doubt.
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Your content never says where
Great pages that never mention Chattanooga can't rank for Chattanooga.
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AI can't tell what you are
No structured data means the tools answering questions have to guess...so they skip you.
✦ the plan
three months, built in order
You can’t build authority on a broken foundation, and you can’t teach AI who you are before Google knows. Each month unlocks the next.
MONTH ONE
Technical Foundation & Research
$1,500
Before any strategy can gain traction, your site has to be in good standing with Google — technically clean, properly connected, and sending the right signals on every page.
- Technical fixes & trust-signal repair
- Every page title rewritten for your market
- Unique meta description on every page
- Image alt text site-wide
- Google Search Console + sitemap
- GA4 connected for a clean baseline
- Competitor & keyword gap analysis
- 20–30 prioritized local keyword targets
- Google Business Profile audit
MONTH TWO
Local Authority & Content Presence
$1,200
Month 1 makes sure Google understands you. Month 2 makes sure the right people (and the right platforms) know you exist.
- Citation audit + ghost-listing cleanup
- 12–15 directory listings claimed or built
- Industry-specific directories, not just generic ones
- Google review campaign — 3-touchpoint sequence written for you
- 2 new locally-targeted blog posts
- Existing posts re-optimized for your market
- A dedicated city landing page — the anchor of the whole strategy
- 5–10 local backlink pitches
MONTH THREE
AI Visibility & Individual Schema
$1,800
The next generation of search doesn't hand out ten links. It hands out one answer. This month makes sure it can find, verify, and quote you.
- LocalBusiness schema — name, address, hours, category
- Person schema — you as the named, licensed expert
- Service schema — what you actually sell
- FAQPage schema — can win rich results in search
- BreadcrumbList schema site-wide
- AI-ready professional biography
- Local FAQ page built from real search questions
- Rich-results validation, before & after