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- Voice Search Visibility CheckFree: see what Google, Apple Maps, Yelp and your site tell the assistants
- Voice search for local businessesThe whole picture, in one guide
- How to get your business on SiriApple Business Connect, step by step
- "Near me" voice searchesWhy the answer is one name, and how it is chosen
- The assistant recommends a competitorWhat to check, in order
- Voice and assistant optimizationWe fix the records and test them monthly
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Voice Search Statistics: Which Numbers Are Real and Which Are Recycled
The famous "50% of searches will be voice by 2020" was a 2014 forecast about speech or images, later pinned on a company that never published it. Where the popular voice statistics really came from, which ones hold up, and five questions to test any number.
Siri, Alexa and Google Don't Agree on the Best Plumber in Town. Here's Why.
Ask the same question three ways and you can get three names. Siri, Alexa and Google each read a different record about your business. Why the answers drift apart, what most voice search packages actually sell, and the six things a local business should fix instead.
The Google Setting That Decides Whether Siri Recommends You
Ask Siri who does what you do near you, and it may well recommend your competitor — from a file you've never seen. Why voice assistants read Apple, Yelp, and Bing (not just Google), the one setting that decides who they name, and how to make the clean story yours.
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Frequently asked questions
Yes, for any business people call or drive to. Spoken searches lean local and urgent, and the assistant usually names a single business instead of a page of options. That makes the stakes higher than a typed search, while the work stays small: accurate listings, matching details everywhere, and a phone that gets answered.
They read different records. Google Assistant leans on your Google Business Profile, Siri on Apple Maps, and Alexa on licensed listing data such as Yelp. Fix one and ignore the others, and two assistants out of three keep repeating the old hours or the old number. Matching all three is most of the job.
Run the free Voice Search Visibility Check on this site. It looks up your business on Google, searches for your Apple Maps and Yelp listings, reads your website for the details assistants use, and flags every mismatch in your name, phone, address and hours, with the fix for each.
No. Nobody sells a guaranteed spot in a voice answer, whatever the invoice says. Ads can appear in some assistant results, and sponsored placements exist on some listing sites, but the default spoken answer comes from accurate listings, proximity, reviews and relevance. That is the part you can improve.
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