AEO is DEAD, do THIS instead.

👉 Join me on the 23rd for a FREE live class on getting AI to handle SEO for you: https://events.calebulku.com/?utm_source=youtube - 👉 Join our exclusive AI SEO Mastery group for templates and resources: https://www.skool.com/ai-seo-mastery/ Interested in hiring my agency? https://calebulku.com/hire-my-agency/ AI search is making traditional local SEO rankings less relevant — but not in the way most “AEO experts” want you to believe. In this video, SEO expert Caleb Ulku explains why you can dominate the Google Map Pack and still be completely invisible in AI Overviews, and why the businesses that *do* get recommended by ChatGPT, Google’s Ask Maps, Perplexity, and Claude are often completely different ones. He reveals the real pattern he found after testing dozens of cities and shares the five key signals that actually build AI confidence. Spoiler: it’s not a new “AI SEO” framework. *Timestamps:* 0:00 - Why #1 in the Map Pack Can Mean Zero AI Visibility 0:17 - AI Overviews Now Dominate Local Searches (68%) 0:46 - The Hidden Pattern Behind AI Business Recommendations 1:15 - Why AEO Courses Are Being Sold Right Now 1:38 - What Separates Map Pack Winners from AI Winners 1:51 - AI Doesn’t Rank Pages — It Recommends Businesses 2:11 - Signal #1: Google Business Profile Done Right 4:23 - How AI Reads Your Reviews (and What It’s Looking For) 5:20 - The Simple Text Message That Gets Better AI Fuel 5:52 - Signal #2: Bing Places & Web Visibility 6:34 - Signal #3: Dedicated Service Pages & Entity Strength 7:44 - Signal #4: Schema Markup That Actually Helps AI 8:45 - Signal #5: Citations vs Real Mentions 10:07 - Why Proximity Barely Matters Anymore in AI 11:35 - Ask Maps & The New Attribute Matching Era 12:49 - The Big Truth: AEO Is Just Local SEO Done Properly Caleb Ulku | Local SEO | AI Overviews | Google Ask Maps | ChatGPT Business Recommendations | Entity Recognition #seo #localseo #marketing