Why Local Businesses Are Losing Leads in AI Search — and What Fillip Kosorukov Thinks Will Matter Next
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Why Local Businesses Are Losing Leads in AI Search - and What Fillip Kosoruko Thinks Will Matter Next Local business SEO used to revolve around a familiar playbook: rank your website, optimize your Google Business Profile, collect reviews, and keep your directory listings clean. That still matters. But it is no longer the whole game. customers are asking ChatGPT, Google’s AI results, Gemini, and Perplexity for recommendations directly. They are not always clicking through ten blue links. Often, they just want one answer. That changes how local discovery works.