Montréal AI visibility for prompts asked in French.

1. 01.

   Ask the chats about you.

   We run a fixed set of prompts about your business across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini, then save the answers. That is the baseline. Most small businesses do not appear at all, or appear with the wrong facts. Either way we know the starting point.

2. 02.

   Set the crawl rules.

   robots.txt rules for each major AI crawler, plus an llms.txt and llms-full.txt written for your business. You decide which models are allowed to read the site. Most owners say yes to all of them.

3. 03.

   Build the entity layer.

   Schema markup that names the business properly: full Organization or LocalBusiness, sameAs links to the Google Business Profile, social profiles, and directory listings. The point is unambiguous proof that the business on the site is the business the model has seen elsewhere.

4. 04.

   Shape the content for citation.

   Rewrite the about and service pages so a model can lift a clean two-sentence answer out of them. Q and A sections where they fit. Plain, sourced facts. Models cite what they can quote without paraphrasing it into nonsense.

5. 05.

   Re-ask the chats.

   Same prompts, same models, four to six weeks later. The before and after lands in a short PDF you keep. Anything still wrong gets a second pass.

• Do the models really answer differently in French?

  Yes, noticeably, and it is the first thing we show you at the baseline. The same question asked in French and in English about the same category often returns a different set of businesses entirely, because the model is drawing on different sources. For a Québec business, the French answer is the one that matters and it is usually the one nobody has looked at.
• Does our site have to be fully bilingual for this to work?

  It has to have real French content at real URLs, which is the same thing French search ranking requires, so most businesses are solving both problems with one piece of work. A translation widget does not count, because models and search engines see the same thing there, which is one page in one language.
• Is this different from SEO?

  Related but not the same. Search ranking is about which page appears in a list. This is about whether a model names your business when somebody asks it a question and never sees a list at all. The technical groundwork overlaps. What you are optimising for does not.
• Can you guarantee ChatGPT will recommend us?

  No, and be careful with anyone who says otherwise. What is controllable is whether the models can find you, whether the facts they hold about you are correct, and whether your pages are written in a form they can quote. We measure the before and after and show you both.
• Is it too early to bother with this?

  That is a fair question and the honest answer is that it depends on your market. Where competitors have not touched it, the groundwork is cheap and the position is uncontested. Where nobody is asking chatbots about your kind of business yet, we will tell you to spend the money on the website instead.

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