Gate three of four

Most of what an AI says about you was not written by you.

The third gate is off your website entirely: your profile, your reviews, the directories in your trade, and the "best in town" articles someone else wrote. For a local or regional business these usually weigh more than anything on your own pages.

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Sources the answer was built from
14
Of those, yours
1 / 14
"Best in town" lists you appear on
0 / 7

An invented example. Your report carries your own numbers.

Why this one decides the rest

When a model is asked who to use, it does not read one site and decide. It reads the places that already list companies like yours, and it leans on sources that agree with each other. Your own site is one input among several.

This is also where the disagreements live. A profile with the wrong category, an aggregator with an old phone number, and a site with a new address are three versions of you. The model picks one, and it may not pick yours.

  • Most of it is not your site Lists, profiles and reviews make up more of the answer than your own pages.
  • One profile carries weight A wrong category or an old number travels further than you would think.
  • Disagreement costs you When two sources contradict each other, a model can reach for a third.
  • Lists are winnable The "best in town" articles in your area are the ones being read out.

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