Columbus, OH · Medical / Wellness

    How One Columbus Clinic Started Getting Booked Off ChatGPT

    We implemented a full AEO stack — direct-answer FAQ structure, FAQPage + Speakable + LocalBusiness schema, author attribution, and IndexNow. The clinic began receiving inquiries explicitly attributed to ChatGPT within 60 days.

    Published December 4, 2025 · By TRSC SEO & AEO Lead, Head of SEO & Answer Engine Optimization

    60 d

    Days to first AI citation

    4/8

    AI engine query coverage

    1–3

    AI-attributed inquiries / mo

    100%

    Pages with schema coverage

    The situation

    The clinic had decent traditional SEO but zero presence in AI search. Patients increasingly reported "I asked ChatGPT for a recommendation in Columbus and you weren't mentioned."

    What we did

    We restructured every key page with 40–60 word direct-answer paragraphs at the top of each section, added FAQPage + Speakable + LocalBusiness + Person schema sitewide, attributed every guide and blog post to a named provider with a Person entity, registered with IndexNow for real-time indexing, and added an llms.txt at the root.

    What changed

    Within 60 days, monthly tests showed the clinic appearing in ChatGPT and Perplexity recommendations for 4 of 8 tested queries. By day 120, the practice received its first call where the patient said "ChatGPT recommended you." Now ~1–3 such mentions per month.