Charlotte small businesses are missing customers every day because their websites aren't set up for AI search, voice assistants, and Google's new AI Overviews. Brownlee Digital changes that — with a free audit and practical fixes that actually move the needle.
Google, Siri, Alexa, and ChatGPT now answer questions directly — without sending anyone to a website. If your site isn't structured correctly, you don't exist to them.
Google now answers many search queries with an AI-generated summary at the very top of the page. Sites without proper schema markup and structured content rarely get cited — no matter how good the underlying service is.
When someone says "Hey Siri, find a Charlotte electrician," Siri picks one answer — usually from a business with clean structured data and a strong Google Business Profile. If that's not you, you never even had a chance.
Over 60% of local searches happen on a phone. If your site loads slowly, looks broken on mobile, or doesn't have HTTPS, Google buries it — and visitors leave in under 3 seconds before you get a chance to make an impression.
No packages designed to confuse you. Every service starts with understanding your actual situation.
A graded report across 20+ signals — Technical, SEO, and AEO. You'll know exactly what's working, what isn't, and what to do about it. No obligation, no sales pressure.
Schema markup added, meta tags cleaned up, H1 fixed, robots.txt corrected, and your Google Business Profile optimized. Big impact without rebuilding anything.
Complete redesign and rebuild with AEO-ready content, fast mobile performance, and all the technical groundwork done right. For businesses ready to take search seriously.
Continuous SEO and AEO work, new content, monitoring, and monthly reporting. For businesses that want to keep growing after the initial fix is in place.
No long discovery calls, no six-week roadmaps. Here's how it works.
Submit your website URL. The proprietary audit tool runs 20+ checks across Technical, SEO, and AEO categories. Takes minutes, not days.
You get a plain-English graded report — letter grades per category, specific issues called out, and a priority list of what to fix first. No mystery, no upsell pressure.
Choose the service that fits your situation. Changes go live, Google picks them up, and you start showing up in the places where your customers are actually searching.
Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is the practice of structuring your website so that AI-powered systems — Google's AI Overview, Siri, Alexa, ChatGPT, Perplexity — can understand what you do, where you are, and why you're trustworthy enough to recommend.
Traditional SEO got you ranked on page one. AEO gets you cited as the answer. The difference matters because a growing share of searches — especially voice searches on phones — never produce a list of ten blue links. They produce one answer. If your competitor's site is structured for AEO and yours isn't, their business gets mentioned. Yours doesn't.
The good news: most small business websites in Charlotte aren't doing this yet. That's a real window to get ahead before everyone catches on.
Structured data tags that tell search engines exactly what your business is, what it does, and who it serves.
Question-and-answer content on your site that AI systems can lift directly to answer customer queries.
A complete, verified GBP is often the deciding factor in who Siri or Google picks for a local voice search.
I'm Robert Brownlee, a Charlotte-based web consultant. I've spent years helping businesses understand why their websites weren't producing results — and fixing that in plain, practical terms.
I built a proprietary audit tool that checks websites across 20+ Technical, SEO, and AEO signals. It's the same tool I use for every client — because you can't improve what you haven't measured. The report it generates is honest and direct: here's your grade, here's why, here's what to do.
I focus on Charlotte small businesses because that's where I live and where I've seen the biggest gap between what a website could be doing and what it actually does. No giant agency overhead, no bait-and-switch. Just clear work that helps you get found by the people you want to reach.
Send your website URL and I'll run the full 20+ signal audit. You'll get a graded report — free, no strings attached. If there's work to do and you want help, we can talk. If not, keep the report.
Or email directly: robert@brownleedigital.com