Local SEO by Industry in Minnesota: Who AI Recommends and What the Data Shows (2026)
Nine live AI queries, one per trade: what gets cited when Minnesotans ask who to hire — plumbers, HVAC, roofers, dentists, and five more trades.
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Minnesota Local SEO Statistics 2026: We Analyzed 1,058 Small-Business Websites
Original research: we crawled 1,058 Minnesota chamber-member business websites and probed how AI assistants recommend local businesses. 87.7% have no LocalBusiness schema, 74% fail mobile performance, and most AI citations go to directories — not businesses.
AI Overviews and Local Search: What Actually Gets Cited (and How to Be the Citation)
VeloRank ran its own AI-citation probe on real Minnesota hiring questions. 68.3% of cited sources were directories, not the business (n=41 sources, 11 queries). Here's who got cited, and why.