AI SEO: how ChatGPT and AI search describe your business

"AI SEO" gets used for two different things. One is using AI tools to write and optimize web pages. The other is getting your business described correctly by AI search: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity. Lehvel does the second.

How to show up in ChatGPT

There's no form to submit and no setting to switch on. ChatGPT and assistants like it describe a business from what they can read: your website, your Google listing, directories, reviews, articles that mention you. When those agree and are current, the answers tend to follow. When they disagree, the assistant picks one, and it isn't always the right one.

So the work is plain. Say clearly on your own site what you do, where, and how to reach you. Keep your listings matching it. Then check what the assistants say and chase down anything wrong.

What it covers

Your website

Services, service areas, hours and contact details stated plainly, on pages that search engines and AI tools can read.

Your website

Your listings

Your Google Business Profile and directory listings kept to the same details as your site.

Your listings

What the assistants say

ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity asked your customers' questions every month, with every answer kept alongside its sources.

What the assistants say

Fixes that hold

A wrong answer is traced to its source and fixed there. It counts as fixed when a later answer stops getting it wrong.

LLM SEO, ChatGPT SEO, Perplexity SEO

Same job, named after the tool. An LLM (large language model) is what sits behind ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. We don't tune for one assistant at the expense of the others, because the sources they read overlap heavily.

Questions

Do you track Google AI Overviews?

Not today. We check ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity, and we'd rather say so than imply more.

Can you make ChatGPT recommend my business?

Nobody can promise that. We can make sure it isn't working from wrong information about you.

Are you an AI SEO agency?

We do that work. We also build and run the website and keep the listings those assistants read, which is usually where the fixes are.

Want to discuss AI SEO?

Book a time with Lehvel and we’ll go through what your business actually needs.