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local AEO — does ChatGPT recommend your Google Business Profile?

Local AEO — does ChatGPT recommend your Google Business Profile?

Enter a city and category — plumber in Austin, dentist in Denver — and see who ChatGPT names versus your GBP. The next layer after map-pack rankings and NAP audits.

  • City + category in — named businesses out
  • See whether AI recommends you, a rival, or a directory
  • Three free checks daily · Pro recrawls your locations weekly
Sample

City + category. Who does AI recommend?

Local AEO vs your Google Business Profile.

Location
AI local recommend

City and category your customers type.

Product tour

Who AI recommends in your city

One screen for the question your client already asks: does ChatGPT recommend us? Compare the AI answer to your Google Business Profile — not just map-pack rank.

LocalAuditly — who AI recommends versus your Google Business Profile
City and category in — named businesses out. Your GBP row beside the AI answer.
LocalAuditly — city and category check

Why local SEOs check AI recommend

Clients already ask whether ChatGPT recommends their plumber or dentist. You can rank the map pack and still lose the conversational answer. LocalAuditly gives you a row for that question — city, category, who AI named, and whether your GBP appears.

This is not a NAP audit or citation tracker. It is answer-engine visibility for local queries — the layer after BrightLocal-era tooling, built for chatgpt local business and gbp ai overview questions.

  • ChatGPT local business queries are rising alongside AI Overviews.
  • GBP AI overview visibility is separate from classic local pack rank.
  • Named competitors in the answer become your citation and PR brief.

One job: Local AEO / GBP AI visibility

Enter city+category → who AI recommends vs your GBP.

City + category

Who AI names for plumber in Austin — vs you.

Type the city and trade your customer would say out loud — not a keyword spreadsheet. LocalAuditly returns who AI names first.

LocalAuditly — City + category

GBP vs AI

You can rank the map pack and still lose the answer.

Map pack #1 does not guarantee the chat answer. See the gap between GBP rank and AI recommend in one row.

LocalAuditly — GBP vs AI

Named competitors

The list is the citation/PR brief.

When AI names three competitors and skips you, that list is your outreach brief — directories, PR, and local links.

LocalAuditly — Named competitors

City + category

Who AI names for plumber in Austin — vs you.

GBP vs AI

You can rank the map pack and still lose the answer.

Named competitors

The list is the citation/PR brief.

Weekly recrawl

Pro: locations you already checked.

Agency

One login, many GBPs.

No NAP audit

Keep BrightLocal for citations. This is AI recommend.

How it works

  1. 01
    City + category

    Plus your business name.

  2. 02
    See who AI named

    You, a competitor, or a directory.

  3. 03
    Watch it

    Pro recrawls the location.

Built for three kinds of users

Local SEO

Client asked if ChatGPT recommends them. Now you have a row.

Agency

Add local AEO next to the GBP report.

Owner

Plumber in one city. Three free checks.

Pricing

Enter city+category → who AI recommends vs your GBP.

Basic

Free

  • 3 checks / day
  • Who AI named
  • Google sign-in
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FAQ

What is local AEO?
Answer engine optimization for local businesses — whether ChatGPT or AI Overviews recommend you when someone asks for a service in your city. LocalAuditly checks that against your Google Business Profile.
Is this BrightLocal?
No. BrightLocal is built for citations and NAP consistency. LocalAuditly answers a different question: who AI names when a customer types a city and category.
localaeo.com is taken?
Yes — registered in October 2024. LocalAuditly is the product behind this checker.
Free?
Three city and category checks per day. Sign in with Google on the app page.

Local AEO — does ChatGPT recommend your Google Business Profile?

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