Last Updated on: 12th August 2025, 02:48 pm
In 2025, artificial intelligence is transforming the way customers discover and choose businesses online. Small and medium-sized enterprises that adapt early stand to lead their industries. Level Up Leads, a Kent-based specialist in SEO and AI optimisation, is helping SMEs secure visibility in Google’s AI Overviews and ChatGPT recommendations – opening the door to fresh, high-quality lead generation.
Traditional SEO once focused primarily on achieving high rankings in Google Search, but the landscape has evolved. AI-powered search platforms such as Google AI and ChatGPT now influence purchasing decisions by delivering concise answers and suggesting specific businesses based on trust, relevance, and authority.
For SMEs, this change presents a clear choice: adapt to the AI-first search era and enhance visibility – or risk being overlooked as competitors seize the top spots in these new digital recommendation engines.
These recommendations aren’t random; they’re driven by data, content quality, reviews, online authority, and location relevance. Level Up Leads specialises in positioning SMEs so they’re the ones being recommended. This involves:
- Optimising content for AI platforms so it’s clear, relevant, and structured in a way AI understands.
- Building authority signals through backlinks, press coverage, and citations that AI algorithms recognise as trustworthy.
- Embedding local SEO strategies so that when AI looks for nearby businesses, clients are the first choice.
- Adding technical SEO enhancements like schema markup to help AI platforms identify services and location quickly.
- Analysing AI search patterns for their industry and location.
- Creating content and assets that directly answer high-intent search queries.
- Building credibility signals such as 5-star Google reviews, consistent NAP (Name, Address, Phone) data, and mentions in reputable online publications.
- Integrating AI-focused SEO alongside traditional Google optimisation, ensuring visibility in both search and AI Overviews.
- Get ahead of competitors still focusing solely on traditional search rankings.
- Reach customers faster by appearing in the exact moment they’re ready to buy.
- Build trust instantly by being endorsed by leading AI platforms.
- Future-proof their marketing as AI adoption continues to grow across industries.
Level Up Leads is a SEO agency in Kent helping UK SMEs rank higher on Google and now on AI platforms like ChatGPT and Google AI. Their services include local SEO, AI-optimised content creation, backlink building, and digital PR. By combining traditional SEO with cutting-edge AI strategies, Level Up Leads ensures clients are found where customers are looking today – and where they’ll be searching tomorrow.
