July 28, 2026
In May 2026, Google clarified that its AI Overviews and AI Mode features run off the same crawled Search index as traditional results. Here’s what that actually means for how a small business website has to be built — and why you don’t need to buy a separate “AI optimization” service to keep up.
July 24, 2026
What a small business website — from a restaurant to a bookkeeper — needs at the build level to be found in local search, trusted by customers, and cited by AI answer engines in 2026.
July 23, 2026
Ask ChatGPT for a good restaurant in your area. If your name doesn’t come up, it’s not a marketing problem — it’s usually a build problem. Here’s what has to be true at the foundation to be citable at all.
July 20, 2026
A six-session audit showed Malau Digital cited correctly in Google’s AI search every time, but one signed-in AI Mode result attached the wrong business card.
July 16, 2026
The gap between a website that exists and a website that brings in business is almost always the copy. Design matters, speed matters, but the words on the page are usually the difference.
July 14, 2026
The specific work that gets a small SGV business into AI search results — robots.txt, page copy, schema, and internal links, in the order I would actually do them.
July 1, 2026
You don’t need a list of twenty things. You need to know which two or three local SEO fixes will actually move the needle, and in what order to run them.
June 30, 2026
GEO stands for Generative Engine Optimization. Here’s what it actually is, why it matters for an SGV small business in 2026, and how it differs from regular SEO after Google’s May 2026 guidance.
June 18, 2026
You search your own business name and it shows up, so you assume you’re visible. Your customers aren’t searching your name. Here’s why they can’t find you, and how to fix it.
June 16, 2026
“Maintenance plan” sounds like paying every month for work you can’t see. Here is the honest line-by-line of what that fee actually buys, and what it deliberately leaves out.
