Be found: SEO and GEO for a one-page site
TL;DR
Before publishing, check ten things: a unique title under 60 characters, a real meta description, one h1, LocalBusiness structured data, an identical name-address-phone everywhere, descriptive alt text, internal links, canonical and lang, Open Graph, and clickable tel: and mailto: links. To be cited by an assistant, answer the question in the first lines and structure the page so it can be quoted.
Ten checks before you publish
- A unique title per page, under 60 characters, naming the business and the city.
- A meta description of about 150 characters that makes someone want to click: a promise, not a summary.
- A single h1 per page, stating what the business is and where.
- LocalBusiness structured data in JSON-LD: name, address, phone, opening hours, geo, url.
- The same name, address and phone everywhere, word for word, in the same format.
- A descriptive alt on every image: what is shown, not "image1".
- Internal links between the sections and pages, so nothing is an island.
- A canonical tag, and a lang attribute on the html element.
- Open Graph tags (title, description, image) so the link looks right when it is shared.
- The phone as a tel: link and the email as a mailto: link.
None of this is exotic, and an assistant does all of it correctly when asked. The problem is that it is rarely asked, because most people do not know the list exists.
The same words everywhere
Your name, address and phone number have to appear identically on your site, in your structured data, and on every directory that lists you. "Rue de la Station 12" in one place and "Rue de la Gare 12" in another are two different businesses as far as a search engine is concerned, and the signal splits in half.
It sounds pedantic. It is the single most common reason a small local site underperforms for no visible cause.
Being cited by an AI assistant
People increasingly ask an assistant for a recommendation rather than typing a search. Nobody controls what comes back, and anyone promising you a ranking there is selling something. But the pages that get quoted have things in common, and they are things you can do.
- Answer the question in the first lines of the page, before the marketing
- Use headings that are the questions people actually ask
- Prefer lists and tables to long paragraphs: they can be lifted and quoted as-is
- Include a short FAQ with real answers, not sales copy
- Keep the structured data accurate, because it is the machine-readable version of everything above
The overlap with ordinary SEO is almost total, which is convenient: the page that is easy for an assistant to quote is the page that was clear to begin with.
What comes from where
To be clear about the division of labour: SayLive publishes the files, serves them fast and gives them a real address with HTTPS. It does not write your titles or your structured data. That comes from the page your agent built, which is why asking for the checklist above is worth the one message it costs.
On SayLive your agent can load the SEO checklist as a skill, so you do not have to remember the ten points. Ask for it by name.
One thing that is not SEO but is often mistaken for it: your own domain. It does not rank you, and you do not have to buy one to be online, which the article on domain names goes through. The last guide is the one that decides whether any of this ships: the review before publishing.
Say this
"Run the SEO pass before we publish: unique title under 60 characters with the city, a real meta description, one h1, LocalBusiness JSON-LD, identical name and address and phone everywhere, alt text on every image, canonical and lang, Open Graph, tel: and mailto: links. Then list what you fixed."
Questions fréquentes
Do AI-generated websites have good SEO?
Only if you ask. Assistants handle titles, meta descriptions, structured data and alt text correctly when instructed, and skip most of it when not. A single message running through the checklist closes almost the whole gap.
How do I get my website recommended by ChatGPT or Claude?
Nobody controls it, but quotable pages share traits: they answer the question in the first lines, use questions as headings, prefer lists and tables to long paragraphs, carry a short honest FAQ, and keep their structured data accurate.
What is NAP consistency?
Name, address and phone written identically everywhere: on your site, in your structured data, and in every directory. Two slightly different versions read as two different businesses and split the local search signal.