AEO series · the foundational Michigan dispensary AEO posts

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Five foundational posts that walk through how each of the four AI assistants, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews, answers the queries a Michigan cannabis shopper actually types. Written in the same practitioner voice as the $500 audit and the geo pages, so a reader who finishes the series sees the audit deliverable before they ever submit the intake form.

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The series

Five posts. One voice. The same queries the audit runs.

Each post names the citation chain one assistant reads, what a Michigan dispensary has to ship to land on it, and how the $500 audit reads that chain. The first post (ChatGPT) is in progress; the Perplexity post is live now.

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How ChatGPT picks the Michigan dispensaries it names.
How ChatGPT chooses its short list of Michigan dispensaries, what its opaque citation list hides, and what a Michigan cannabis retailer can do about it.
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How Perplexity decides which Michigan dispensary it cites.
How Perplexity shows its citations inline, why that changes the citation-gap math, and what a Michigan dispensary has to ship to land on the answer.
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How Gemini answers Michigan cannabis shopper queries.
Gemini leans on the Google entity graph. How thin Wikidata entries and missing schema cost your dispensary a citation, and what a Michigan audit names.
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Claude AEO and the Michigan dispensary citation chain.
Where Claude surfaces in Michigan cannabis shopping flows, what its retrieval graph actually pulls from, and the citation surfaces worth shipping for it.
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Google AI Overviews and your Michigan dispensary GBP.
How AI Overviews sit above your Google Business Profile, what the panel cites, and the Michigan-specific citation gaps the audit reads out line by line.
“Same voice. Same practitioner. Same queries the audit actually runs.”
Randi Bagley, dispensaryAEO
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The five posts above walk through the citation chain each assistant reads. The $500 audit names the surfaces your dispensary already owns on that chain, the ones it doesn\'t, and the work that closes the gap. Submit the intake.

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