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Spokane AI SEO that gets your business named in the answer.

Ask Google's AI Mode, ChatGPT, or Gemini who to call, and the answer names two or three businesses before it shows a single link. We make sure yours is one of them, with the same work that earns your Google rankings, so you only pay for it once.

Fixed facts show up
Within weeks
Sold separately
Never. It's your SEO
Where we check
ChatGPT, Gemini & Google
Who you talk to
The person doing the work

/ BE THE BUSINESS THE ANSWER NAMES

A dental office manager at the front desk, smiling on the phone while she works at her computer, the waiting room behind her.
Google's AI can now phone a business to ask about price. Someone should pick up.

Google's AI Mode passed a billion monthly users in 2026, and AI Overviews now appear at the top of anywhere from a fifth to half of all searches. That's a big shift from a year ago, when AI search was mostly a sideshow. ChatGPT, for its part, responds to local questions with a shortlist and a map, along with reviews it licenses from Yelp. As a result, many of your customers now first come across your trade through a paragraph that recommends specific businesses by name, rather than through a list of links.

Whoever that paragraph mentions tends to get the call. People click less overall when an AI answer appears, but the businesses it cites typically get more than twice as many clicks as the ones it leaves out, so being named in the answer has become the new page one.

Google has said that optimizing for AI search "is still SEO," and the way a business gets into those answers hasn't really changed. Its guidance doesn't call for secret markup or special files. Nor does it ask you to break your site into bite-sized chunks. The AI draws on pages that already rank, on your Google Business Profile, and on sites like Yelp that vouch for you. So a separate GEO package built on tricks is, by Google's own account, an approach that doesn't work, whoever happens to be selling it.

That's why we treat AI SEO as a single job. It means writing pages that answer the questions people in Spokane and Spokane Valley actually ask, keeping your business facts consistent everywhere AI looks, and properly measuring what AI tools say about you. It's also worth keeping the hype in proportion, since chatbots still send only a small slice of website visits compared with Google. Most of your AI audience is inside Google itself, so this work and your rankings work end up being the same thing.

/ WHAT'S INCLUDED

Six jobs, done as part of your SEO

None of this is sold on top of your rankings work. It's the same program, with the emphasis moved to where the answers come from.

  • Pages that answer first

    The answer in the opening lines and the proof right under it, written for the questions Spokane buyers really ask.

  • One version of you

    The same name, hours, and services on your site, your Google profile, Yelp, and the directories. Mixed signals get you skipped.

  • Reviews worth quoting

    An AI boils your reviews down to a sentence. Reviews that mention the job and the town give it something good to say.

  • The right doors open.

    We check that the AI search crawlers can read your site. Some hosting setups now block them by default without saying so.

  • Ready when the AI calls

    Google can now phone businesses when a customer asks about price and availability. Accurate details, and someone answering, count.

  • Measured, not promised

    We ask the AI tools your customers' questions over and over and track how often you're named. Nobody can promise a chatbot's answer.

/ WHERE THE ANSWER COMES FROM

Three places talk about you.

A 2026 study of nearly two million citations in local AI answers, across ChatGPT, Google's AI Mode, and AI Overviews, found the same three sources doing most of the work.

  1. 42%

    Your own website

    This is the largest single source. When a page answers the question plainly, it tends to get quoted; vague pages usually get passed over.

  2. 28.6%

    Your Google Business Profile

    Google's AI relies on this more than on anything else, drawing on your hours, categories, services, and reviews when it writes the answer.

  3. 9.5%

    Yelp

    ChatGPT's go-to local source, and now a licensed one. A stale Yelp page is the version of you ChatGPT reads.

SOURCE: BRIGHTLOCAL LOCAL AI VISIBILITY STUDY, SEPTEMBER 2026.

Question asked: best seo company in spokane

CHATGPT ANSWER

  1. August SEOBest for local SEOYOU
    A strong first choice for Spokane businesses that want more local search traffic. Its published case studies report ranking improvements for a Spokane restaurant, auto glass shop, and IT services company.
    augustseo.com › case-studiesCITED
  2. Another business named at slot 2 (withheld)
  3. Another business named at slot 3 (withheld)

4 PULLS · NAMED IN 4 · FIRST IN 2

  • best seo company in spokane#1
  • who is the best seo company in spokane wa#1
  • spokane seo agency recommendations#3
  • best seo company in spokane· again#3
The same question asked twice came back in a different order. That's why we measure AI visibility across repeated runs, never one screenshot.

CHATGPT · WEB SEARCH · UNITED STATES · OCT 14, 2026

/ THE TERMS

Month-to-Month Terms

No contract, no setup fee, no cancellation fee.

You Own Everything

The site, domain, accounts, and your content.

Limited Client List

Which is why I'll say no if I'm not the right fit for this.

/ FAQ

Common questions

Straight answers on how AI search optimization actually works, and what it's honestly worth right now.

/ HOW WE START

  1. You send the address.

    That's the whole ask. No forms to fill out, no discovery call to book.

  2. I look at the site myself.

    Not a tool report: what you already rank for, and what's holding the rest back.

  3. You get a straight answer.

    One email, within a business day. Free, no obligation, nobody phones you.

  4. We agree on the first moves.

    We put them in order of what will pay back soonest, and if something isn't worth doing yet, I'll tell you so.

  • Is AI Search Actually Sending Anyone?

    The numbers grow every quarter, though they're smaller than the pitch decks suggest. The average website still gets well under one percent of its visits from chatbots like ChatGPT, and Google sends dozens of times more. Even so, that number makes AI search look smaller than it really is. Most people who search with AI do it through Google's own AI Overviews and AI Mode instead of a chatbot, and your analytics count those visits as ordinary Google traffic. To get an honest picture, you have to look at two things. One is the stream of visits coming from the chatbots, which is small but growing. The other is the large share of your Google searches where an AI now answers before anyone sees a link. We cover both by reporting chatbot visits as a channel of their own and by asking AI tools directly to see what they say.

  • Do I Need a Separate AI Service?

    Probably not, and Google's own guidance is the reason. Google says optimizing for AI search is still SEO. You don't need to add any special markup or file, and nothing requires you to split your pages up into chunks. What changes is mostly where you put your effort. That means writing answers clearly enough for an AI to quote them, making sure your Google profile, Yelp page, and directory listings match what your website says, and confirming that your site isn't blocking AI tools from reading it. Each of those is already part of the SEO you pay for, so you don't need a second invoice. If you're offered GEO as a separate line item, it's fair to ask which part of it Google says actually works.

  • How Does a Business Get Named by an AI?

    The ChatGPT answer shown on this page is a good example. When it recommended us, the sources it pointed to were our case studies, not our homepage, since AI tools tend to cite evidence and often leave out what a business says about itself. Behind an answer like that, the AI typically runs several searches, reads what comes back, and compares it with your Google profile, your reviews, and sites such as Yelp, looking for the clearest and most consistent answer available. When your hours, services, or address differ from one source to the next, it usually falls back on a competitor it feels surer about. When they all match, you're the business it's likely to name.

  • Does ChatGPT Use My Google Reviews?

    For the most part, no. Your Google Business Profile carries a lot of weight in Google's own AI answers, but ChatGPT seldom uses it. When ChatGPT looks at a local business, it mostly reads your website and Yelp, and in 2026 Yelp signed a deal to supply ChatGPT with its reviews, photos, and business details. So an unclaimed or outdated Yelp page is what ChatGPT sees when it looks you up. Since your customers use both tools, we work on both.

  • What About llms.txt and AI Schema?

    We do keep your structured data in good order, since it helps your pages show up with richer listings in ordinary Google results. That benefit doesn't seem to carry over to AI answers, though. When a controlled test was run across nearly two thousand pages in 2026, pages that had schema markup added were cited by AI tools about as often as before, with no measurable difference. The case for llms.txt is weaker still. Google has said its search doesn't use the file at all, and so far no major AI company has confirmed that its tools read it. If someone tells you either of these is how you get into ChatGPT's answers, the evidence isn't on their side.

  • Is AI Search Here to Stay?

    Some form of it, yes. Its exact shape is still settling, though. In 2026 alone, ChatGPT added ads to its free tier, Google trimmed what free Gemini users get, and OpenAI shut down its own web browser. Nobody really knows what AI search will look like in two years. That's why we won't let you bet the business on it. What gets you named by an AI is the same work that gets you ranked on Google, so none of it is wasted either way.

  • How Fast Does Any of This Change?

    AI answers usually shift faster than Google rankings do, and less predictably. When facts about your business disagree across the web, correcting them can start showing up in AI answers within a few weeks, while other changes take months. The answers also move around on their own: we once asked ChatGPT the same question twice on the same day and came first the first time and third the second. For that reason, we measure across many repeated questions rather than relying on one screenshot, and we report the results next to your rankings and your phone calls. Since the same work is also earning your Google positions, you aren't left waiting on AI to justify the bill.

FROM: K. AUGUST · PRINCIPAL, AUGUST SEO

Plenty of headroom for new clients this quarter.

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Kevin

K. AUGUST · SEO SPECIALIST · SPOKANE VALLEY, WA

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