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# AI search blog

AI search blog: this category explains how a Greater Montreal business shows up in Google search results and in answers from AI assistants like ChatGPT or Perplexity. You'll find explanations of structured data, llms.txt files and the practices that keep you visible, whether the search comes from a traditional engine or a generative AI.

## Latest articles
- [AI Overviews for Your Business Name Searches: What They Mean](https://socialinfluencebuilder.com/blog/ai-overviews-branded-searches-business-name.md): AI Overviews on your business name: where Google's summary comes from, how to check what searchers see and how to fix wrong details at their source. (2026-10-18)
- [Quebec Small Businesses: Measuring AI Search Visibility](https://socialinfluencebuilder.com/blog/measure-ai-search-visibility-quebec.md): Quebec small businesses can measure AI search visibility with French and English prompt sets, GA4 referral checks, call tracking and a monthly routine. (2026-10-16)
- [AEO and GEO: Use Your Own Data to Get Cited in AI Answers](https://socialinfluencebuilder.com/blog/original-data-ai-citations-aeo-geo.md): AEO and GEO explained: turn your own emails, reviews and service records into checkable facts that ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Gemini can cite. (2026-10-09)
- [Local Marketing Fixes to Make as Google Search Becomes More AI-Driven](https://socialinfluencebuilder.com/blog/local-marketing-fixes-ai-search.md): Local marketing fixes for AI-driven Google Search: tune your Google Business Profile, pages, NAP, reviews and Loi 25 tracking in Québec. (2026-10-08)
- [Markdown twins and llms.txt: why every page on our site now has both](https://socialinfluencebuilder.com/blog/llms-txt-markdown-website.md): Markdown twins and llms.txt: every page on our site now has a Markdown version and an llms.txt file of its own. Here is what we built, why, and what it does not change for Google Search. (2026-09-19)
- [ChatGPT Search Citations for Local Businesses: What Gets One Cited](https://socialinfluencebuilder.com/blog/chatgpt-search-local-business.md): ChatGPT Search citations for local businesses: the prompts we test, what actually gets cited, and what we change on a site before it happens. (2025-11-23)
- [Google AI Overviews and local search: what changes for small businesses](https://socialinfluencebuilder.com/blog/google-ai-overviews-local-search.md): Google AI Overviews and local search: the rollout across Canada landed on October 28, 2024, in English only. Here is what changes, and does not, for a Montreal-area small business. (2024-11-05)
- [ChatGPT website copy verification: What to Keep, What to Verify](https://socialinfluencebuilder.com/blog/chatgpt-website-copy-what-to-verify.md): ChatGPT website copy verification: what a small business owner should keep and check before publishing website copy, and how to catch errors before it goes live. (2023-03-12)