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Here is what the data says actually decides who AI recommends.", "date": "September 1, 2026", "dateISO": "2026-09-01", "author": "Kanchan Sharma", "categories": [ "Real Data", "Case Study", "AEO", "GEO", "Local Business", "Gemini" ], "readTime": "8 min read", "image": "/mediasets/barely-visible.jpeg" }, { "slug": "why-your-business-might-be-invisible-to-gemini", "url": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/why-your-business-might-be-invisible-to-gemini", "path": "/blog/why-your-business-might-be-invisible-to-gemini", "markdown": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/why-your-business-might-be-invisible-to-gemini.md", "title": "Your Business Might Be Invisible to AI — And How Spotlight Links Fixes It", "subtitle": "Search isn''t just Google anymore. Your next customer might be asking Gemini, ChatGPT, or Perplexity where to find \"the best [services you provide] near me\" — and if your business isn''t optimized for how AI engines read, rank, and recommend, you''re simply not in the conversation. Worry not- Spotlight Links is here to help", "date": "August 31, 2026", "dateISO": "2026-08-31", "author": "Spotlight Links Ground Research", "categories": [ "Gemini", "AEO", "GEO", "AI Search Visibility Check", "Sales" ], "readTime": "4 min read", "image": "/mediasets/dragons.jpeg" }, { "slug": "small-business-embracing-ai-technology", "url": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/small-business-embracing-ai-technology", "path": "/blog/small-business-embracing-ai-technology", "markdown": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/small-business-embracing-ai-technology.md", "title": "The Local Businesses Embracing New Technology — What Sets Them Apart", "subtitle": "A look at the shifting demographic and high-retention business models driving early adoption of Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), and how local brands are adapting to AI-first search.", "date": "August 28, 2026", "dateISO": "2026-08-28", "author": "Kai", "categories": [ "Industry Insights", "Small Business AI", "Spotlight Links Research" ], "readTime": "4 min read", "image": null }, { "slug": "sales-is-not-easy", "url": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/sales-is-not-easy", "path": "/blog/sales-is-not-easy", "markdown": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/sales-is-not-easy.md", "title": "Why Small Businesses Resist AI", "subtitle": "An inside look at the structural barriers keeping main-street businesses from adopting AI tools, and how diagnostic probing converted 8 local businesses across retail, services, and hospitality in under two weeks.", "date": "August 27, 2026", "dateISO": "2026-08-27", "author": "Spotlight Links Ground Work Team", "categories": [ "Field Reports & GEO Strategy" ], "readTime": "4 min read", "image": "/mediasets/shangrilla-entreprenuership.jpeg" }, { "slug": "how-to-get-your-business-recommended-by-claude", "url": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/how-to-get-your-business-recommended-by-claude", "path": "/blog/how-to-get-your-business-recommended-by-claude", "markdown": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/how-to-get-your-business-recommended-by-claude.md", "title": "How to Get Your Business Recommended by Claude", "subtitle": "Claude does not use Google or Bing. It runs on a separate index, uses three separately documented crawlers, and cites passages rather than pages. This guide covers what Claude reads before it recommends a business, and what the evidence actually supports.", "date": "August 25, 2026", "dateISO": "2026-08-25", "author": "Spotlight Links Research", "categories": [ "Claude", "Anthropic", "AEO", "GEO", "Citation Building" ], "readTime": "6 min read", "image": "/mediasets/get-recommended-claude.jpeg" }, { "slug": "queens-is-the-new-rome", "url": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/queens-is-the-new-rome", "path": "/blog/queens-is-the-new-rome", "markdown": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/queens-is-the-new-rome.md", "title": "The Pillars Holding Up Every Local Economy", "subtitle": "Every thriving city begins the way Rome did — as a cluster of trades a community can't live without. We mapped the businesses holding up our corner of Queens, and found the same 13 pillars in nearly every neighborhood we studied.", "date": "August 24, 2026", "dateISO": "2026-08-24", "author": "Spotlight Links Research", "categories": [ "Community Commerce", "Queens" ], "readTime": "6 min read", "image": "/mediasets/open.jpeg" }, { "slug": "the-corner-store-that-disappeared", "url": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/the-corner-store-that-disappeared", "path": "/blog/the-corner-store-that-disappeared", "markdown": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/the-corner-store-that-disappeared.md", "title": "The Corner Store That Disappeared", "subtitle": "Most local businesses do not lose because someone made better food. They lose because they were never visible in the places their customers were looking — and nobody ever told them.", "date": "August 20, 2026", "dateISO": "2026-08-20", "author": "Spotlight Links Team", "categories": [ "Local Business", "Queens", "Small Business", "AEO" ], "readTime": "9 min read", "image": "/mediasets/bike-jester.jpeg" }, { "slug": "your-google-maps-website-link-is-probably-broken", "url": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/your-google-maps-website-link-is-probably-broken", "path": "/blog/your-google-maps-website-link-is-probably-broken", "markdown": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/your-google-maps-website-link-is-probably-broken.md", "title": "Your Website Link on Google Maps Is Probably Broken", "subtitle": "A five-minute check every local business owner should run today — and what a dead website link is quietly costing you in Google results and in AI recommendations.", "date": "August 20, 2026", "dateISO": "2026-08-20", "author": "Spotlight Links Team", "categories": [ "Local Business", "Queens", "Small Business", "GEO" ], "readTime": "8 min read", "image": null }, { "slug": "get-your-business-recommended-by-ai-engines", "url": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/get-your-business-recommended-by-ai-engines", "path": "/blog/get-your-business-recommended-by-ai-engines", "markdown": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/get-your-business-recommended-by-ai-engines.md", "title": "The Complete Guide to Getting Recommended by AI Engines in 2026", "subtitle": "Cross-platform Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) strategy for ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, and Perplexity.", "date": "August 19, 2026", "dateISO": "2026-08-19", "author": "Spotlight Links Team", "categories": [ "AEO", "GEO", "AI Engines", "Strategy", "Multi-Engine" ], "readTime": "4 min read", "image": null }, { "slug": "get-your-business-recommended-by-chatgpt", "url": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/get-your-business-recommended-by-chatgpt", "path": "/blog/get-your-business-recommended-by-chatgpt", "markdown": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/get-your-business-recommended-by-chatgpt.md", "title": "How to Get Your Business Recommended by ChatGPT & OpenAI Search", "subtitle": "Behind the scenes of ChatGPT's citation selection, Bing index reliance, entity ranking, and how to capture recommendations for $79/month.", "date": "August 19, 2026", "dateISO": "2026-08-19", "author": "Spotlight Links Team", "categories": [ "ChatGPT", "OpenAI", "AEO", "GEO", "Citation Building" ], "readTime": "2 min read", "image": "/mediasets/get-recommended-chatgpt.jpg" }, { "slug": "get-your-business-recommended-by-gemini", "url": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/get-your-business-recommended-by-gemini", "path": "/blog/get-your-business-recommended-by-gemini", "markdown": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/get-your-business-recommended-by-gemini.md", "title": "How to Get Your Business Recommended by Google Gemini", "subtitle": "Gemini grounds its recommendations in Google Search and Google Maps. This guide covers what Gemini reads before it names a business, the six areas that decide whether you get cited, and how to verify where you currently stand.", "date": "August 19, 2026", "dateISO": "2026-08-19", "author": "Spotlight Links Team", "categories": [ "Gemini", "AEO", "GEO", "Google", "Local Business" ], "readTime": "9 min read", "image": "/mediasets/get-recommended-gemini.jpeg" }, { "slug": "under-100-dollar-tool-to-get-business-recommended-by-ai", "url": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/under-100-dollar-tool-to-get-business-recommended-by-ai", "path": "/blog/under-100-dollar-tool-to-get-business-recommended-by-ai", "markdown": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/under-100-dollar-tool-to-get-business-recommended-by-ai.md", "title": "The $100 or Less Tool to Get Your Business Recommended by AI", "subtitle": "Why spending $10,000/month on legacy SEO agencies is obsolete when a $79/month serial AI probing tool delivers 95% confidence scorecards and automated AEO fixes.", "date": "August 19, 2026", "dateISO": "2026-08-19", "author": "Spotlight Links Team", "categories": [ "Pricing", "AEO Tools", "Software", "Local Business", "Strategy" ], "readTime": "3 min read", "image": null }, { "slug": "how-spotlight-links-ai-audit-engine-works", "url": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/how-spotlight-links-ai-audit-engine-works", "path": "/blog/how-spotlight-links-ai-audit-engine-works", "markdown": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/how-spotlight-links-ai-audit-engine-works.md", "title": "How the Spotlight Links AI Audit Engine Works: Probing, Accuracy & Scoring Teardown", "subtitle": "A detailed technical teardown of how Spotlight Links benchmarks brand recommendations across ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity in 10 minutes and under.", "date": "August 14, 2026", "dateISO": "2026-08-14", "author": "Spotlight Links Engineering", "categories": [ "Strategy", "AEO", "GEO" ], "readTime": "3 min read", "image": "/mediasets/aeo-for-brick-and-mortar.png" }, { "slug": "why-google-seo-fails-in-ai-search", "url": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/why-google-seo-fails-in-ai-search", "path": "/blog/why-google-seo-fails-in-ai-search", "markdown": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/why-google-seo-fails-in-ai-search.md", "title": "Why 84% of Top-Ranking Google Businesses Are Completely Invisible in ChatGPT & Gemini", "subtitle": "Traditional SEO targets 10 blue links on Google using backlinks and keyword density. But conversational AI search engines synthesize recommendations using entity knowledge graphs, local sentiment, and citation authority. Here is why Google #1 rankings fail in AI search.", "date": "August 14, 2026", "dateISO": "2026-08-14", "author": "Spotlight Links Engineering", "categories": [ "GEO Strategy" ], "readTime": "2 min read", "image": null }, { "slug": "case-study-montclair-mud-clay-studio", "url": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/case-study-montclair-mud-clay-studio", "path": "/blog/case-study-montclair-mud-clay-studio", "markdown": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/case-study-montclair-mud-clay-studio.md", "title": "How We Recovered 62% Missing AI Recommendation Share for Montclair Mud Clay Studio", "subtitle": "A deep-dive AI audit across Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity revealed critical zero-mention leakage in 4 surrounding sub-cities. See how structured JSON-LD entity injection restored recommendation dominance.", "date": "August 10, 2026", "dateISO": "2026-08-10", "author": "Spotlight Links Research", "categories": [ "Case Studies" ], "readTime": "1 min read", "image": null }, { "slug": "does-chatgpt-give-same-answers-to-everyone", "url": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/does-chatgpt-give-same-answers-to-everyone", "path": "/blog/does-chatgpt-give-same-answers-to-everyone", "markdown": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/does-chatgpt-give-same-answers-to-everyone.md", "title": "The 2026 AEO Benchmark: Does ChatGPT Give the Same Recommendations to Everyone?", "subtitle": "We ran 1,000 multi-engine prompt iterations across Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity to measure recommendation variance, confidence intervals, and engine bias.", "date": "August 6, 2026", "dateISO": "2026-08-06", "author": "Spotlight Links Data Lab", "categories": [ "AEO Auditing" ], "readTime": "1 min read", "image": null }, { "slug": "open-sesame-garages-day-30-report", "url": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/open-sesame-garages-day-30-report", "path": "/blog/open-sesame-garages-day-30-report", "markdown": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/open-sesame-garages-day-30-report.md", "title": "Open Sesame Garages, Day 30: Real Numbers From a Live AEO/GEO/SEO Program", "subtitle": "12 clicks. 119 impressions. Two number-one rankings on the money keywords — and a branded search. Spotlight Links asks 60-days from our clients to begin delivering results. This is Day 30 report.", "date": "August 6, 2026", "dateISO": "2026-08-06", "author": "Kanchan Sharma", "categories": [ "AEO", "GEO", "SEO", "Case Study", "Real Data", "Local Business" ], "readTime": "8 min read", "image": null }, { "slug": "what-goes-in-a-business-ai-context-pack", "url": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/what-goes-in-a-business-ai-context-pack", "path": "/blog/what-goes-in-a-business-ai-context-pack", "markdown": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/what-goes-in-a-business-ai-context-pack.md", "title": "What Goes In a Business AI Context Pack (With Real Examples)", "subtitle": "Six sections, in order of how much money they save you. Written from building our own and our clients' — including the counterintuitive one most people skip, and the one where examples beat adjectives every time.", "date": "August 5, 2026", "dateISO": "2026-08-05", "author": "Kanchan Sharma", "categories": [ "AI Development", "Strategy", "Spotlight Skills", "Real Data" ], "readTime": "5 min read", "image": null }, { "slug": "your-ai-starts-from-zero-every-morning", "url": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/your-ai-starts-from-zero-every-morning", "path": "/blog/your-ai-starts-from-zero-every-morning", "markdown": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/your-ai-starts-from-zero-every-morning.md", "title": "Your AI Starts From Zero Every Morning. That Is Why Your Output Keeps Changing.", "subtitle": "Monday you explain your pricing for twenty minutes and get a great quote. Thursday the assistant knows none of it. Your employee's sessions know even less. This is not a model problem — it is a context problem, and it has a boring, permanent fix.", "date": "August 4, 2026", "dateISO": "2026-08-04", "author": "Kanchan Sharma", "categories": [ "AI Development", "Strategy", "Spotlight Skills" ], "readTime": "4 min read", "image": null }, { "slug": "how-to-audit-local-business-ai-share-of-voice", "url": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/how-to-audit-local-business-ai-share-of-voice", "path": "/blog/how-to-audit-local-business-ai-share-of-voice", "markdown": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/how-to-audit-local-business-ai-share-of-voice.md", "title": "How to Audit Your Local Business AI Share of Voice in Under 4 Minutes", "subtitle": "Step-by-step executive guide on measuring recommendation frequency, competitor mention displacement, and instant SWOT analytics.", "date": "August 2, 2026", "dateISO": "2026-08-02", "author": "Spotlight Links Engineering", "categories": [ "AI Benchmarks" ], "readTime": "1 min read", "image": null }, { "slug": "deploy-yourself-or-hire-help-vibe-coder-guide", "url": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/deploy-yourself-or-hire-help-vibe-coder-guide", "path": "/blog/deploy-yourself-or-hire-help-vibe-coder-guide", "markdown": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/deploy-yourself-or-hire-help-vibe-coder-guide.md", "title": "Deploy It Yourself or Get Help? An Honest Guide for AI-First Builders", "subtitle": "Some AI-built projects you should absolutely deploy yourself — and we tell you which ones. For the rest, here is what real deployment help looks like, what it costs, and the red flags that separate a partner from a hostage-taker.", "date": "July 30, 2026", "dateISO": "2026-07-30", "author": "Kanchan Sharma", "categories": [ "Deployment", "AI Development", "Strategy", "Local Business" ], "readTime": "3 min read", "image": null }, { "slug": "should-your-business-have-a-skill-md", "url": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/should-your-business-have-a-skill-md", "path": "/blog/should-your-business-have-a-skill-md", "markdown": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/should-your-business-have-a-skill-md.md", "title": "Should Your Business Put a SKILL.md on Its Website? No. Here Is What to Do Instead.", "subtitle": "SKILL.md is one of the fastest-adopted standards in software history — and it will do absolutely nothing for your AI citations if you upload it to your website, because no search engine reads it there. But used where it actually works, it quietly fixes the biggest problem businesses have with AI. We know, because we run our own business on one.", "date": "July 30, 2026", "dateISO": "2026-07-30", "author": "Kanchan Sharma", "categories": [ "AI Development", "Strategy", "AEO", "Real Data" ], "readTime": "5 min read", "image": null }, { "slug": "how-long-does-100-dollars-claude-credits-last", "url": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/how-long-does-100-dollars-claude-credits-last", "path": "/blog/how-long-does-100-dollars-claude-credits-last", "markdown": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/how-long-does-100-dollars-claude-credits-last.md", "title": "How Long Does $100 in Claude Credits Last? Under a Week. Here Is Our Data.", "subtitle": "Anthropic gave Spotlight Links a $100 Claude Code credit. We run five active clients on AEO, GEO, builds, and deployments. It lasted less than a week — about ten hours of dedicated work. Our AI bill is blowing through the roof. These are real numbers, published real recognize real.", "date": "July 29, 2026", "dateISO": "2026-07-29", "author": "Kanchan Sharma", "categories": [ "AI Costs", "Agency Life", "Real Data" ], "readTime": "4 min read", "image": null }, { "slug": "the-ten-dollar-hour-that-bills-at-five-hundred", "url": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/the-ten-dollar-hour-that-bills-at-five-hundred", "path": "/blog/the-ten-dollar-hour-that-bills-at-five-hundred", "markdown": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/the-ten-dollar-hour-that-bills-at-five-hundred.md", "title": "The $100 API Hour That Ships a three-grand Work: Economics of Agency AI", "subtitle": "Our measured cost for an hour of frontier-model work is about ten dollars. The output of that hour is the kind that has always billed at hundreds. That spread — not chatbots, not demos — is the actual AI economy, and small businesses are positioned to capture more of it than anyone.", "date": "July 29, 2026", "dateISO": "2026-07-29", "author": "Kanchan Sharma", "categories": [ "AI Costs", "Strategy", "Agency Life", "Real Data" ], "readTime": "4 min read", "image": null }, { "slug": "what-ai-actually-costs-a-small-agency", "url": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/what-ai-actually-costs-a-small-agency", "path": "/blog/what-ai-actually-costs-a-small-agency", "markdown": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/what-ai-actually-costs-a-small-agency.md", "title": "What AI Actually Costs a Small Agency in 2026: Our Stack, Our Bill", "subtitle": "Everyone publishes token prices. Nobody publishes what a working agency actually spends. Here is our multi-model stack, what each model is for, when the burn spikes, and how to budget it — from the agency that just learned $100 lasts six days.", "date": "July 29, 2026", "dateISO": "2026-07-29", "author": "Kanchan Sharma", "categories": [ "AI Costs", "Agency Life", "Strategy", "Real Data" ], "readTime": "4 min read", "image": null }, { "slug": "why-ai-built-apps-break-in-production", "url": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/why-ai-built-apps-break-in-production", "path": "/blog/why-ai-built-apps-break-in-production", "markdown": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/why-ai-built-apps-break-in-production.md", "title": "Why Your AI-Built App Works on Localhost but Breaks in Production", "subtitle": "The seven failures we see in almost every AI-assisted build, in the order they usually appear — from the environment variables that vanish at build time to the CORS error that only shows up on the real domain.", "date": "July 29, 2026", "dateISO": "2026-07-29", "author": "Kanchan Sharma", "categories": [ "Deployment", "AI Development", "Technical" ], "readTime": "5 min read", "image": null }, { "slug": "you-built-it-with-ai-now-deploy-it", "url": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/you-built-it-with-ai-now-deploy-it", "path": "/blog/you-built-it-with-ai-now-deploy-it", "markdown": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/you-built-it-with-ai-now-deploy-it.md", "title": "You Built Your App With AI. It Runs on Localhost. Now What?", "subtitle": "ChatGPT, Claude, and Cursor got you to a working prototype on your machine — and then the tutorials ran out. Here is why deployment is where AI-assisted projects stall, what the gap actually consists of, and how to get across it.", "date": "July 28, 2026", "dateISO": "2026-07-28", "author": "Kanchan Sharma", "categories": [ "Deployment", "AI Development", "Strategy" ], "readTime": "5 min read", "image": null }, { "slug": "how-to-get-recommended-by-chatgpt-gemini-perplexity-claude", "url": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/how-to-get-recommended-by-chatgpt-gemini-perplexity-claude", "path": "/blog/how-to-get-recommended-by-chatgpt-gemini-perplexity-claude", "markdown": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/how-to-get-recommended-by-chatgpt-gemini-perplexity-claude.md", "title": "How to Get Your Business Recommended by ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude", "subtitle": "A concrete, engine-by-engine playbook. What to fix first, what each engine rewards, and the robots.txt line that quietly makes some businesses uncitable no matter how good their content is.", "date": "July 27, 2026", "dateISO": "2026-07-27", "author": "Kanchan Sharma", "categories": [ "AEO", "GEO", "SEO", "Strategy", "Local Business" ], "readTime": "6 min read", "image": null }, { "slug": "how-ai-answer-engines-choose-citations", "url": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/how-ai-answer-engines-choose-citations", "path": "/blog/how-ai-answer-engines-choose-citations", "markdown": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/how-ai-answer-engines-choose-citations.md", "title": "How AI Answer Engines Actually Pick Who to Cite", "subtitle": "ChatGPT runs on Bing. Claude runs on Brave. Perplexity runs on its own index and mostly ignores Google. Before you can get cited, you have to know which index each engine is actually reading — because winning one wins you nothing in the others.", "date": "July 26, 2026", "dateISO": "2026-07-26", "author": "Kanchan Sharma", "categories": [ "AEO", "GEO", "SEO", "Strategy" ], "readTime": "7 min read", "image": null }, { "slug": "open-sesame-garages-aeo-geo-seo-case-study", "url": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/open-sesame-garages-aeo-geo-seo-case-study", "path": "/blog/open-sesame-garages-aeo-geo-seo-case-study", "markdown": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/open-sesame-garages-aeo-geo-seo-case-study.md", "title": "How Spotlight Links Is Executing an AEO / GEO / SEO Strategy for Open Sesame Garages", "subtitle": "A mid-phase look at taking an Oklahoma City garage door company from zero web presence to ranking in search and being quoted verbatim by AI answer engines.", "date": "July 24, 2026", "dateISO": "2026-07-24", "author": "Spotlight Links", "categories": [ "Answer Engine Optimizaton", "AEO", "Generative Engine Optimization", "GEO", "SEO", "Case Study", "Local Business" ], "readTime": "4 min read", "image": null }, { "slug": "why-aeo-geo-matters-now", "url": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/why-aeo-geo-matters-now", "path": "/blog/why-aeo-geo-matters-now", "markdown": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/why-aeo-geo-matters-now.md", "title": "AI Traffic Converts 5× Better. Your Competitors Are About to Find Out.", "subtitle": "More than half of Americans now use AI chatbots every week — and the traffic those chatbots send converts at a multiple of traditional search. Here is why Answer Engine Optimization is the highest-leverage thing a business can do right now, and how Spotlight Links executes it.", "date": "July 3, 2026", "dateISO": "2026-07-03", "author": "Kanchan Sharma", "categories": [ "AEO", "GEO", "SEO", "Strategy", "Local Business" ], "readTime": "7 min read", "image": null }, { "slug": "how-to-print-money-with-ai-search", "url": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/how-to-print-money-with-ai-search", "path": "/blog/how-to-print-money-with-ai-search", "markdown": "https://spotlightlinks.com/blog/how-to-print-money-with-ai-search.md", "title": "How to Print Money With AI", "subtitle": "At Spotlight Links, we implement state of the art methodologies to help real-world businesses, both brick and mortar, and online, get recommended by AI engines like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude. Spotlight Links is a OKC-based entity registered as Spotlight Links LLC. AI usage is only increasing. Get your business service recommended in AI searches relating your service in your city and nearby cities. .", "date": "June 27, 2026", "dateISO": "2026-06-27", "author": "Kanchan Sharma", "categories": [ "AEO", "GEO", "SEO", "Strategy", "Playbook", "Local Business" ], "readTime": "10 min read", "image": "/mediasets/aeo-for-brick-and-mortar.png" } ] }