Question

What is AI visibility?

Locus Intelligence team
Updated 2 min readVisibility · Attract

Short answer 24 words

AI visibility is whether, and how, AI assistants name a business when asked the questions its customers ask, measured per location and per engine.

The fuller answer

It differs from search rank because an answer names a few businesses, not a page of links.

See the GEO guide and Visibility.

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