CiteLoop for Local AEO · answer engine optimization for local businesses

When someone nearby asks ChatGPT for the best plumber, dentist or gym, does it name you?

"Near me" moved into the chat window. The engines answer local questions with two or three business names pulled from your site, your Google Business Profile, reviews and directories. CiteLoop tracks the questions your customers ask about your area every week, shows who got named, and fixes what is keeping you out.

5 questions your customers ask, checked on ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Google. Results in about 10 minutes, by email and on a page you can share. No card.
What we do

We find the gap, write the page, your team approves it, then it goes live

Answer engine optimization (AEO) with the publishing built in. Most tools stop at the report. CiteLoop keeps going until something is published and measured.

1We find where you are missing

Every week we ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Google the questions customers in your area actually ask, and record who got cited. When it is not you, you see who it was.

2We write the content

A brief picks the one page closest to a win and says what to change and why. Our writer drafts the new page or the rewrite, with sources, in your voice, inside the brief.

3Your team reviews it

Each brand has its own review step. Your editor reads the draft in the brief; the owner or manager signs off on every page, with a due date. Nothing goes live without a person signing off.

4It gets published, directly or manually

Approved pages publish straight through the WordPress or Shopify plugin, or we hand you clean HTML to paste into any CMS. Kill switch on by default, no auto-publish.

Then we measure it. Every published page gets its own 28-day result, and a monthly report you can forward to whoever signs the renewal.

What is different in local

1The answer is a shortlist, not a list

Google shows ten results. ChatGPT names two or three businesses and moves on. Being fourth is being invisible. We track whether you are on the shortlist for every question that matters in your area.

2Four sources feed the answer

Your site, your Google Business Profile, your reviews, and the directories. The engines read all four. We check all four, and the brief tells you which one is holding you back on each question.

3Every location, its own loop

Multi-location businesses get a tracked set and a page per location, with LocalBusiness schema, hours and service area on each. The report rolls up so the owner sees every location on one page.

What we look at for a local business

The free scan runs these once. Plans run them every week, per location.

  • Whether ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude name you on "best X in [city]" and "X near me" questions
  • Who gets named instead: the franchise, the aggregator, the competitor down the street
  • Google rank and the local pack on the same questions
  • Name, address and phone consistency across your site, Google Business Profile and the major directories
  • LocalBusiness schema, hours, service area pages, and whether the AI crawlers can read them
  • Review count, rating and recency, which the engines lean on when they pick a shortlist
What we track Sample data

Every number that moves when the loop runs, on one screen

Google and the AI engines, side by side, read every week. Nothing here is a vanity metric: each one is a thing a brief can change and the next reading can confirm. Below is a sample 12-week run so you can see the shape of it.

Google search clicks28 days, Search Console
14.2K+41%
The number your traffic report already shows. We watch it against the 28 days before.
AI citationsChatGPT, Gemini, Claude
61 of 150+28
Each tracked question asked on each engine every week. A citation is your domain in the answer.
Queries in Google top 10of 50 tracked, weekly SERP
31+12
The fixed set of questions you chose, checked by SERP on the same day each week.
Visits from AI answers28 days, GA4 referrals
2,140+3.1x
People who clicked through from ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude or Perplexity. The citation, turned into a visit.
Google Discover clicks28 days, page level
38.6K+2.4x
Tracked per page, so you can see which stories Discover picked up and which it ignored.
Impressions28 days, Search Console
1.9M+36%
Leading indicator. Impressions move before clicks do, usually by two to three weeks.
Site readinessof 100, 17 checks
94+22
llms.txt, schema, meta, FAQ blocks, index count. The fixes ship through the same review step.
Pages through reviewpublished, cumulative
26+26
Every page that went brief, draft, team review, publish. Each one carries its own 28-day result.
Also on the dashboard: who got cited instead of you on every question, per engine · the buyer question each engine was asked and what it retrieved · publish, spike and drop markers on every chart · the 28-day result of each published page · a monthly report you can export as PDF and forward.
Built by a publisher

Twelve years of living on search, now pointed at the answer engines

CiteLoop comes out of HomeLife Media, a publisher that has written, ranked and sold against search for over a decade. We are not a software company guessing at content. We have shipped a hundred thousand pages, watched a billion visits arrive, and sold a quarter billion dollars of product off them. That history is what every brief is trained on, and the same loop now runs for brands, practices, medical groups and local businesses.

12+
years of historic audience data
1B+
pageviews across our brands
$250M
in product sales driven by our content
100,000
pieces of written content published

Local Basic

One location, 25 questions, pages written for you and approved by you, published direct or by hand, and the monthly report. Start with the free scan.

Free scan5 questions your customers ask, checked once on ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Google. A results page you can share with your team.No card. About ten minutes.$0
Basic25 tracked questions per location, checked weekly on Google and the three engines. One brief at a time, drafted for you, approved by you, published through the WordPress or Shopify plugin or by hand. Google Business Profile and directory fixes in the same brief. Monthly report.Cancel monthly. You keep the reports.$499 / mo
Pro150 tracked questions across locations, everything in Basic, plus a page and tracked set per location and an owner roll-up report.$999 / mo
HandsOptional. We make the edits for up to 8 pages a month and handle the profile and directory updates. Only added when you ask.$999 to $1,500 / mo
A question is one thing a nearby customer asks, tracked on Google and on ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude every week. WordPress and Shopify supported today; other site builders are $999 one-time setup.

Start with your business site

Type the domain. Five questions your customers ask about your area, four engines, ten minutes, and you will know who the AI sends them to.

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