1-FIND audited 75 home services contractors across the Tri-Cities in May 2026. Every trade category showed the same pattern: Google Business Profiles average 82.8 out of 100. Websites average 65.8.…
If you’ve spent any time reading about AI search optimization, you’ve probably seen the advice to optimize for AI Overviews — the AI-generated answer blocks that appear at the top…
When we ran 270 AI search queries across ChatGPT and Perplexity for this year's Tri-Cities study, one variable predicted AI visibility better than schema, website health, or GBP completeness. It…
In 1-FIND's audit of 75 home services contractors across Johnson City, Kingsport, and Bristol, 10 had a setting in their website files that blocks Google from crawling the entire site.…
"6-12 months" is the default answer. It's also only correct when your market, content, and citation baseline all happen to be average — and most aren't. Three variables determine your…
Google doesn't see your website the way your customers do. It reads code, follows links, and measures load signals — and a site that looks polished to a human visitor…
Internal links pass authority between your pages, tell Google which content matters most, and guide buyers toward conversion. They cost nothing except time, and the benefits compound as your site…