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Your Rankings Are Fine. The Phone Stopped Ringing. AI Ate Local Search
AEO Engine's episode "Your Rankings Are Fine. The Phone Stopped Ringing. AI Ate Local Search" explains why Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity now form a third results layer that is capturing question-search clicks from local businesses whose organic rankings remain unchanged.
Key takeaways:
Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity function as a third results layer above local pack results.
Local businesses can retain rankings in Google Maps while losing question-based phone calls to AI answers.
Question-intent searches ("who fixes," "how much does") are the queries AI engines…
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