AI does not read your website the way a person does. It does not start at the top and work down. It scans for structure, and before it reads a single sentence, it reads the code behind the page.
That code is schema, also called structured data. It is a short, standardized label in your page's header that states what the page is: who you are, what you do, and where you operate. AI treats it as the answer before the answer. If your pages carry no schema, AI has to infer their meaning from the text, and inference is where businesses get dropped.
Pages with clean structured data get pulled into AI answers far more often than pages without it. This is an Authority move. You are not adding more words. You are making the words you already have legible to a machine.
Start with the homepage, the first page AI looks at. Add Organization schema and LocalBusiness schema, with your exact business name, category, address, and phone number, identical to how they appear everywhere else online. You do not have to hand-code it. Ask an AI to generate the JSON-LD or use a schema generator, then validate it with Google's Rich Results Test before publishing.
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