What's included in Local & AI Search?
Local search setup and optimization, including your Google Business Profile and consistent directory listings, structured review campaigns, review replies written for you, and a short monthly report on calls, directions and searches. A higher plan adds AI search visibility: the structured data and answer-first pages that help AI assistants understand and name your business. Each plan above lists exactly what it includes. Online booking itself comes with our website packages, and your Google profile can link to it.
Why does local search visibility actually matter?
A plumber or an accountant who doesn't show up when someone searches 'near me' loses the customer to whoever does, regardless of who's actually better. Google weighs how relevant, how close and how well known a business is, and a complete, active Google Business Profile with consistent listings helps on all three. Most small businesses never fully set up either.
What is AI search visibility?
More customers now ask an AI assistant who to call instead of scrolling a list. We organize your business facts, structured data and answer-first pages so those tools can understand your business and describe it correctly, and we check regularly which customer questions mention you. Nobody can promise a placement in an AI answer. The work raises the odds, and the monthly report shows what we actually observe.
Do you create fake reviews or inflate review counts?
No. Structured review acquisition means setting up a clean, consistent process for asking real customers for real reviews after real service. Nothing is fabricated, purchased or inflated. A business's online reputation only works if it's true.
Do I need a Rooted Square website before I can start Local & AI Search?
Usually yes, since local search needs somewhere to send the customer, but if you already have a solid website, we can scope this on its own. The consultation call sorts out where your business actually sits today.
What is in the monthly report?
A short, plain-language summary of how many people called, asked for directions and found you through search that month, with what we did and what comes next. Higher plans add what we observed in AI answers, so you can see whether the work is paying off.
What does 'local directory sync' actually fix?
Search engines cross-check your business name, address and service area across every directory that lists you, and inconsistencies between them (an old address on one site, a slightly different business name on another) quietly undermine how much they trust your listing. Directory sync finds and corrects those mismatches, which is unglamorous work but one of the highest-leverage things a local business can do for search ranking.