AI search visibility (GEO) · Ottawa–Gatineau
AI SEO for Ottawa–Gatineau businesses.
When someone asks ChatGPT or Google's AI for a business like yours, does your name come up? We check what the AI tools say about you today, fix what they can't find, and measure it every month, in English and French.
$750 / month · free with SEO · no long-term contract · build your plan
How AI answers work
The AI reads what search finds
Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode don't have a separate index. They pull from the same pages and the same ranking systems as regular search, then write an answer. If Google can't crawl and rank your page, its AI can't cite it. Confirmed–Google
That's why we don't sell AI SEO as magic. On Google, it's SEO done well, plus checking what the AI actually says.
What local AI answers cite
Your website and your Google profile come first
BrightLocal ran about 200,000 local searches through ChatGPT and Google's AI over 60 days and counted where the answers got their facts. Confirmed–Industry
42%
Business websites
The single biggest source. A clear page for each service you sell is what the AI can quote.
29%
Google Business Profiles
Your categories, services, description and reviews. Then Yelp, at about 10%.
2 to 4
Businesses named per answer
AI Overviews name 2.5 on average, ChatGPT about 4. A short list: if you're not on it, the searcher may never see you.
The same question asked twice often gets different businesses: only 20 to 33% overlap between runs. One screenshot of "ChatGPT recommended us" proves very little, so we ask every question three times and report how often you're named. Confirmed–Industry
Source: BrightLocal · Local AI Visibility Study · Sep 16, 2026
What we do
The work, in order
1. Ask the AI tools about you
The questions your customers would ask, in English and French, in ChatGPT, Google's AI Mode, Gemini, Copilot and Perplexity. Three runs per question, and the report says which tool and which version produced each answer.
2. Let the right crawlers in
Your robots.txt and hosting checked so the search bots behind AI answers (Googlebot, Bingbot, OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot) can read your site. Blocking AI training is your call, and it's a separate setting. How the bots differ.
3. Pages the AI can quote
One page per service, the area you serve written out in plain text, and real price ranges where you can give them. "How much does it cost in Ottawa?" is a question AI tools answer from whoever publishes it.
4. The profiles AI reads
Your Google Business Profile first, then Yelp, Apple Business and Bing Places, all with the same name, phone and description. Yelp now licenses its data to OpenAI, so it matters more for ChatGPT than it used to.
5. Reviews that say what you did
Asking every customer what you helped with and how it turned out. Those words are what an AI matches when someone asks for "a plumber who explains the price up front."
6. A monthly report you can check
How often you were named, out of how many runs, which pages were cited, and what changed. Alongside your Search Console numbers, so AI isn't measured in isolation.
Source: Axios · Yelp licenses its reviews to OpenAI · Jul 23, 2026
Tested by us
We started with our own site
CapitalSEO.ca showed up in Google's AI features 9 times in its first week back online, all from Canada, before it had a single review. Small numbers, but they came from ordinary SEO work, not from any AI-only trick. Tested by us
Prefer to learn it first? Our AI search guide explains how the engines pick sources, with links to each study.
What we won't do
- Promise you'll be "the top pick in ChatGPT." Nobody controls that.
- Plant fake mentions, Reddit posts or reviews. Since May 2026, Google's spam policies name attempts to manipulate AI answers as spam.
- Sell llms.txt files or "AI schema" as a ranking fix.
- Tell you we're "training the AI." Publishing gives the search step something to find; it doesn't train the model.
Source: Google Search Central · Spam policies for Google web search
Common questions
Before you call
Is AI SEO different from regular SEO?
Less than people selling it say. On Google, AI Overviews and AI Mode use the same index and the same ranking systems as regular search, and Google says no special markup or llms.txt file is needed. What's different is the checking: you have to ask the AI tools what they say about you, and the other engines (ChatGPT, Copilot, Perplexity) pull from more than Google.
Source: Google Search Central · AI optimization guide
Can you get ChatGPT to recommend my business?
Nobody can promise that, and the answers change every time you ask. What we can do is make sure the engines can read your site, find a clear page for each service, and find the same facts about you on the profiles and listings they cite. Then we measure how often you're named, over several runs.
Source: BrightLocal · Local AI Visibility Study · Sep 2026
Should I add an llms.txt file or AI schema?
Not for Google: it lists both among the things that don't help. We spend the time on pages and listings instead.
Source: Google Search Central · AI optimization guide
What does it cost?
AI search visibility is $750 a month in Canadian dollars, or free when you have our SEO service, because most of the work overlaps. No long-term contract: leave any time with 30 days' notice.
Start with a free audit.
It shows where you stand in Google today. AI answer checks are part of the paid service.
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