AKD Painting
Residential painting · Inner West Sydney
AEO Score: 5 → 6 · #1 in ChatGPT in 8 days
The Challenge
13 years of work the AI engines couldn’t see
AKD Painting has been painting Sydney homes since 2013. Dulux Accredited, NSW-licensed (330882C), 5-year written workmanship warranty, 50+ five-star reviews. Every signal a homeowner would want. None of it visible to ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google AI Overviews when people asked “best painters Inner West.”
- 0 of 36 target AI prompts cited AKD at baseline: zero presence across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Bing
- Inherited site from previous agency: thin schema, generic stock og:image, Yoast-default llms.txt
- Homepage mentioned 0 of 13 target Inner West suburbs in visible body text
- NAP drift across directories: Place123 listed the wrong suburb entirely
Results
Cited as the top pick in 8 days
Overall AEO Score
5/10
6/10
Audited across AI Discoverability, Content Clarity, Structured Data, Local Signals, and Brand Authority
Structured Data
6/10
8/10
LocalBusiness + Organization + FAQPage JSON-LD, 33 cities
Local Signals
6/10
7/10
Suburb pages live, NAP fixed across directories
Brand Authority
5/10
6/10
Licence, ABN, warranty, and Dulux accreditation now visible
Quick Wins Shipped
0
14
Schema, llms.txt, FAQ, suburb pages, trust strip, og:image
#1
Cited by ChatGPT as “Best overall for Inner West homes”
8 days after we shipped the AEO foundation
Proof
#1 in ChatGPT for “best painters Inner West”
When Inner West homeowners ask ChatGPT for the best painter, AKD is now the first recommendation, called out specifically for review volume, federation and period home expertise, and Sydney-wide reputation.
Ongoing AEO retainer in progress
What We Did
Rebuilt the foundation AI engines actually read
- Deployed LocalBusiness + Organization + FAQPage JSON-LD spanning 33 Sydney cities
- Replaced Yoast-default llms.txt with a studio-authored version pointing to AKD’s real authority pages
- Added a homepage trust strip surfacing NSW licence, ABN, Dulux accreditation, and 5-year warranty
- Rewrote 5 commercial-page titles to lead with “Inner West Sydney”
- Shipped suburb landing pages for Marrickville, Newtown, Balmain, Leichhardt, and Annandale
- Mirrored FAQPage schema as visible accordions across 5 pages so the same Q&A is in both JSON-LD and visible HTML
- Cleaned up directory NAP drift across Hipages, Oneflare, Place123, and TrueLocal
- Replaced generic stock og:image with branded 1200×630 across all key pages
- Noindexed two legacy Lollipop landing pages competing with the new structure