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How people find a local business now, on Google, Maps and AI assistants, and exactly what to change to be the one they pick.

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Found locally·How-to··6 min

Why your business isn't showing up on Google Maps, and the fixes

The usual reasons a business is missing from Google Maps, in the order to check them, with the fix for each. Verification, suspension, address rules and more.

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Found locally·How-to··7 min

How to get recommended by ChatGPT and Google's AI answers

We asked ChatGPT and Google's AI for the best local electrician and traced where each name came from. What the sources say, and what a business can do.

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Found locally·Take··6 min

Fewer clicks, same calls: what still gets a local business chosen

Most Google searches now end without a click. For a local business the decision didn't disappear, it moved. Here's where it went and what to check.

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More Google reviews without breaking the FTC's review rule

A fast, clean way to ask for Google reviews, what the FTC's review rule bans, what Google's own policy adds, and how to answer a one-star review.