AI visibility audit
A baseline run of the prompts your Coquitlam customers actually use, across four engines, showing who gets named today, which sources they cite and where you are absent.
The short answer
AI search optimization is the work of getting your business named when a Coquitlam customer asks ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity or Google AI Overviews for a recommendation. RankFly does it through entity and knowledge-graph work, structured data, answer-shaped content and monthly citation tracking across all four engines.
A growing share of local buying research never reaches a search results page any more. Someone asks an assistant for the best option in Coquitlam, gets three names back, and calls one of them. If you are not one of those three, the ranking you worked for never gets seen.
- Visibility you can measure. We run a fixed prompt set every month across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and AI Overviews and report exactly where you were named, where a competitor was, and what changed.
- Entity work, not keyword stuffing. AI engines reason about businesses as entities. Consistency between your site, Google Business Profile, Wikipedia-grade sources and BC directories is what makes you resolvable.
- Answer-shaped content. Pages that lead with a clean, quotable answer — the format assistants can lift without paraphrasing you into something wrong.
- Local-first. Coquitlam recommendations lean hard on Maps data, reviews and local mentions, so this runs alongside local SEO, not instead of it.
4 enginesChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, AI Overviews
60–90 daysTypical first citations
MonthlyCitation and share-of-answer reporting
How does an AI assistant decide which Coquitlam business to recommend?
Differently from Google, and the difference is the whole job. Ranking first does not guarantee you get named; being quotable, consistent and well-reviewed often matters more.
| Signal | What the engines lean on | What we do about it |
|---|---|---|
| Entity clarity | Can the model resolve who you are, where you are and what you do without guessing | Schema, consistent NAP, About and team pages, authoritative BC mentions |
| Extractability | Whether a clean answer sits near the top of a page in plain language | Answer-first blocks, question-shaped headings, short declarative sentences |
| Corroboration | Whether independent sources say the same thing about you | Directory consistency, local press and association mentions, review platforms |
| Local proof | Google Business Profile completeness, review volume, recency and sentiment | Covered under local SEO in Coquitlam |
| Freshness | Recently updated pages and recent reviews weigh more than old authority | A publishing and profile-update cadence that does not stall |
What is included in RankFly's AI search optimization
Entity and knowledge graph work
Making your business unambiguous to a model: organisation schema, sameAs links, consistent naming, founder and team entities, and the third-party sources that corroborate them.
Answer-first content architecture
Rewriting key pages so each one opens with a clean, self-contained answer an assistant can quote, followed by the depth a human reader needs.
Structured data build-out
Organization, LocalBusiness, Service, FAQ, HowTo, Product and Article markup deployed and validated — the machine-readable layer most Coquitlam sites are missing entirely.
Source and citation building
Getting your business into the places AI engines actually pull from: BC directories, industry bodies, local media, review platforms and comparison content.
Monthly citation tracking
Share-of-answer reporting against named competitors, with the prompts, the verbatim answers and the cited sources attached so nothing is taken on trust.
How the engagement runs
Baseline
Prompt set built around real Coquitlam buying questions, run across all four engines, plus an entity and schema audit of your current site.
Make the site quotable
Answer-first rewrites of priority pages, full structured data deployment, entity consolidation across your profiles and listings.
Build corroboration
Source and citation work, review velocity, local mentions, and the comparison and FAQ content assistants reach for when a query gets specific.
Track and adjust
Monthly re-runs of the prompt set, competitor share-of-answer, and content adjustments wherever an engine is citing someone else's page to answer your question.
Which AI engines we optimise for
Worth knowing
These engines do not share a ranking system, but they do share inputs. Clean structured data, a resolvable entity and consistent third-party corroboration move all four at once — which is why we do not sell engine-by-engine packages.
ChatGPT
Heavy on corroborated, well-structured web sources and its own browsing results. Entity clarity and clean answer blocks do most of the work here.
Google AI Overviews
Closest to classic search. Strong organic and local performance plus FAQ and LocalBusiness schema is what earns inclusion.
Perplexity
Citation-first by design, and the fastest of the four to show movement when you publish genuinely quotable content.
Gemini
Leans hard on Google Business Profile, Maps and review data for local recommendations — local SEO and AI visibility overlap most here.
AI search optimization FAQs
How is this different from RankFly's answer engine optimization service?
Same discipline, different job on this site. This page is the local engagement: getting a Coquitlam business named when people ask an assistant for a recommendation here. Our answer engine optimization page covers the service in full for clients across Vancouver, the Fraser Valley and the rest of BC, including non-local and national brands. If you are a Coquitlam business, start here.
How long before we start appearing in AI answers?
First citations typically appear in 60 to 90 days. Schema and answer-block work can register faster, sometimes in weeks on Perplexity. Broad, consistent presence across all four engines is a six-month arc, because corroboration from third-party sources cannot be rushed.
Can you guarantee ChatGPT will recommend my business?
No, and nobody honestly can. These systems are probabilistic, they change without notice, and the same prompt can return different names on different days. What we can do is make you the best-corroborated, most quotable option in your Coquitlam category and show you the measured change month over month.
Do I still need traditional SEO if I do this?
Yes. AI Overviews and Gemini draw heavily on organic and local rankings, so SEO is an input to AI visibility rather than a competing channel. Most Coquitlam clients run local SEO and AI search optimization together, on one audit and one roadmap.
How do you actually measure AI visibility?
A fixed set of prompts reflecting how Coquitlam customers phrase their questions, re-run monthly against each engine. We log whether you were named, in what position, which sources were cited, and how that compares with the competitors you tell us matter. You get the raw answers, not just a score.
Are Coquitlam customers really using AI to find local businesses?
Enough of them that the trend is worth acting on early rather than late. Assistant-led research skews toward higher-consideration purchases — contractors, clinics, professional services — which is exactly where a single referral is worth the most. The advantage right now is that almost no Coquitlam competitor is structured for it yet.
What this runs alongside
See whether AI is naming you or your competitor
Book a free AI visibility audit. We run your category's real prompts across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and AI Overviews and send you the verbatim answers, the cited sources and what it would take to be in them.
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