The Get Recommended blog
Practical guides for getting recommended
27 Apr 2026
Answer Engine Optimisation explained for Australian small business
Answer Engine Optimisation is the practice of structuring your website, reviews and outside mentions so AI tools confidently recommend you when customers ask in their own words. It is a different discipline from Google search optimisation, with different signals and a different success metric.
Read more
How to check if your business shows up in AI search
37% of consumers now start their search with an AI tool rather than Google. The two work completely differently. This article explains how AI search actually works and how to test whether your business is appearing in the recommendations that now drive buying decisions.
Read more27 Apr 2026
How to get recommended by AI search engines
Seven signals determine whether AI search engines recommend your business: positioning clarity, FAQ structure, schema markup, an AI guide file, review freshness, third-party authority, and entity consistency. Building these signals is different work from traditional SEO, and most businesses are missing two or three of them.
Read more27 Apr 2026
How do you get your business to rank in ChatGPT answers?
ChatGPT does not rank businesses the way Google does. It recommends businesses it can identify, verify, and extract from — in that order. Understanding how each of those three things works tells you exactly what to fix.
Read more27 Apr 2026
Which schema and content patterns do AI engines actually reward?
Four types of background code and three content patterns determine whether AI tools pull from your website or skip it. Most sites get the content right and the structure wrong — or the structure right and the content format wrong. Both need to work together.
Read more27 Apr 2026
What does an AI visibility audit actually check?
An AI visibility audit checks four layers in order — identity, background code, trust, and content. Each layer must pass before the next one matters. Most businesses fail at layer one.
Read more27 Apr 2026
Why ChatGPT doesn't recommend your business yet
ChatGPT skips businesses it cannot identify, verify, or find outside confirmation of. Seven things are usually responsible. Most businesses are missing two or three of them — not all seven.
Read more27 Apr 2026
Why optimising for ChatGPT won't help you appear on Perplexity
ChatGPT builds answers from training data. Perplexity runs a live web search for every query and uses Bing's index, not Google's. The two engines have different architectures, different content preferences, and different practical fixes. Treating them as one tool leaves you visible on one and invisible on the other.
Read more27 Apr 2026
Get new posts in your inbox
Practical AI search guides, sent when we publish.
Unsubscribe anytime. Privacy Policy.