Guides · Updated October 16, 2026 · The Revoomi team
AI visibility checklist: 9 checks for your website
The short answer
Check that your site allows AI crawlers, loads over https, has readable text, includes LocalBusiness structured data, shows your phone number as text, matches the phone on your Google profile, lists your hours, names the city you serve, and has a page title and description. In our tests, about 4 in 10 local business websites had no structured data and about 4 in 10 didn’t show their hours.
These are the nine checks Revoomi runs on every local business website. Each one helps AI assistants read your site and match it to customers’ questions.
- AI crawlers are allowed by robots.txt. If robots.txt blocks GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot or ClaudeBot, those assistants can’t read your pages. In our tests about 1% of sites did. Fix: Change one setting file on your website (robots.txt) so it stops blocking the AI assistants listed in the evidence. Your web person can do it in a few minutes.
- Site loads over a secure (https) connection. Browsers and search engines treat plain http sites as less trustworthy. Fix: Turn on an HTTPS certificate and redirect http addresses to https.
- Home page has readable text, not just images. Assistants read text. A home page that is mostly images gives them nothing to go on. Fix: Add plain-text sections for your services, service areas and what makes you different.
- Local-business structured data is present. Structured data states your name, phone, hours and service area in a format software reads without guessing. About 4 in 10 sites we checked had none. Fix: Add a short hidden label to the home page (LocalBusiness structured data) with your name, phone, hours, services and the towns you serve. Visitors never see it; your web person can add it in about 15 minutes.
- Phone number appears as text or tap-to-call. A phone number inside an image can’t be read or tapped. Fix: Show your phone number as text, and as a tap-to-call link, near the top of the home page.
- Home page phone matches the Google profile. Two different numbers make it harder to be sure the website and the Google listing are the same business. Fix: Use one phone number everywhere and update whichever listing is out of date.
- Business hours appear on the home page. “Who can come out tonight?” is a common question. About 4 in 10 sites we checked didn’t show their hours. Fix: Add your opening hours as plain text in the footer or on a contact section of the home page.
- Home page names the city you serve. Assistants match businesses to places. If the city isn’t in your text, you’re harder to match. Fix: Add your city and the nearby areas you serve to the home page headline, intro text and page title.
- Page title and description are set. The page title and description are often what search engines and assistants read first. Fix: Add the missing page title or description so the page says who you are and where you work.
Trades get one more check: a contact form or quote link on the home page. Restaurants, salons and auto shops get checks for menus, booking and warranties.
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Questions
Can I do these myself?
Most, yes: hours, phone, city names and page titles are quick edits in any site builder. Structured data and robots.txt are 15-minute jobs for a web person.
Will fixing these get me recommended?
They make you easy to read and match, which is the foundation. Reviews and outside mentions do the rest. Nobody can guarantee a spot.
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