The Entrepreneur's Guide to Dominating AI Search: Episode 6
The Location Signal — Why You Need to Anchor Your Business to the Pavement
By Edwin Duterte & Jennifer Wolfe
Founders, Voxel Micro Video Labs & The Donn Allan Experience
Previously on The Growth Engine: In Episode 5, we revealed that the AI is listening to your voice. Your spoken words are now data. But knowing *what* you are saying is only half the battle. Today, in Episode 6, we tackle the other half: Does Google know *where* you are saying it?
The Pain of the "Digital Ghost"
There is a specific kind of frustration that local business owners feel. You know your town. You know the shortcut down 7th Street. You know the smell of the harbor in the morning. You are deeply, physically rooted in San Pedro.
But online? You are a ghost.
When a potential customer searches for services near them, you watch in horror as generic, national brands with zero local connection rank ahead of you. Why? Because their digital signal is louder than yours.
You are an expert in the real world, but you are homeless on the internet. It’s time to plant your flag.
It's Not SEO. It's Geo-SEO.
In real estate, the mantra is "Location, Location, Location." In the new world of AI Search, the mantra is "Geo-Tag, Geo-Tag, Geo-Tag."
Regular SEO helps you rank in the cloud. Geo-SEO helps you rank on the sidewalk.
The search algorithms are desperately trying to connect physical reality with digital content. They want proof that you are where you say you are. If you are just uploading videos from your couch at home, the signal is weak. You look like everyone else.
The Voxel Advantage: Anchoring You to History
This is why the *physical location* of Voxel Micro Video Labs matters so much.
We aren't located in a generic office park. We are inside the historic Donn Allan Experience building (the old JC Penney) in the heart of downtown San Pedro.
When you come here to record your **video podcast**, you aren't just renting equipment. You are borrowing our coordinates.
We ensure that your video files are **Geotagged** with the precise latitude and longitude of our historic landmark. When Google's AI crawls your video, it sees two things:
- High-Quality Expert Audio (from Ep 5)
- A Verified Physical Location Signal in the center of commerce.
This combination tells the search engine: "This is a real expert, in a real location, right now." That is how you win the local search war.
Stop Floating. Start Anchoring.
Don't let your expertise float aimlessly in the digital cloud. Anchor it to the pavement. Prove to the algorithm that you are part of the fabric of this community.
Come to Voxel. Let's put your business on the map—permanently.
COMING NEXT: The Cluster Effect
You have your voice. You have your location anchor. But you are still fighting alone.
What if your SEO could get a boost from the people around you? What if being a good neighbor in the real world translated into higher rankings in the digital world?
In Episode 7, we introduce "Cluster Authority" and how filming inside the San Pedro Local Market ecosystem gives you an unfair "backlink" advantage.
It’s time to plant your flag in San Pedro.
Start your Geo-SEO strategy by booking a session at Voxel Labs.