01.04Lesson6 min

Your first five steps

Where to start, in order: let AI read your site, fix your Google profile, say what you do the same way everywhere, get onto the sites AI cites, and ask for reviews.

There's a lot you could do. These five come first, in this order, because each one makes the next one count. Every step has a full course or a free tool in Learn.

  1. Let AI read your website. Check nothing in your settings turns AI crawlers away: the free AI crawler checker does it in 15 seconds, and the Let AI read your website course covers the rest.
  2. Get your Google Business Profile right: the right category, every service, real photos, the right hours. The Google Business Profile course walks you through it.
  3. Say what you do the same way everywhere: one sentence on what you do, for whom and where, on your website, your profile and every directory.
  4. Get onto the sites AI cites for your trade and city: directories, review sites and best-of lists. There's a course for that too.
  5. Ask every customer for a review, right after the job, and reply to every one.

Opportunities

Ranked from this week's run

● Next run: Mon 6:00

Open

18

In progress

5

Done

23

Gain

+38%

  • Create a Stackwise vs. Deskforge comparison page

    64% of BOFU answers name Deskforge

    High

  • Join the r/sysadmin help desk threads AI cites

    Cited in 24 Perplexity answers

    High

  • Unblock PerplexityBot in robots.txt

    Perplexity can't read your site

    High

  • Publish pricing as text, not a PDF

    Claude and ChatGPT ask about cost

    Med

  • Get listed on Gartner Peer Insights

    Google AI cites it for 12 prompts

    Med

Sample data

One list of what to do next, ranked by what's likely to matter most.

Then improve your own pages so they're easy to quote, which is the course on pages AI quotes, and keep going: a little every week beats a big push once.

Do this before the next lesson

  • Run the free AI crawler checker on your website.
  • Write your one sentence: what you do, for whom, and where.
  • Pick the course for your weakest step and start it this week.
Run the AI crawler checker

In Groow

Groow turns these into a to-do list for your business, in order of what's likely to matter most, and ticks each one off when it sees it done.

Put this to work on your business

Groow checks how ChatGPT, Google and Google Maps see your business every week, tells you what to fix first, and drafts the work for your OK.

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