How long does it take to improve AI visibility?

The honest answer: some fixes move your score within days, and some take a couple of months. The difference is whether the fix is mechanical (something on your own site that models read directly) or reputational (citations across the web that models have to encounter). Sequence them in that order and you see movement fast while the slow compounding work runs in the background.

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What improves within days?Mechanical, on-site fixes. Unblocking AI crawlers in robots.txt, adding Organization/LocalBusiness schema, publishing an llms.txt file, and making your homepage state plainly what you do and where. Engines that browse live can pick these up almost immediately — and if AI crawlers were blocked, this alone can take you from invisible to nameable.

What takes weeks or months?Citation density and reputation. Getting referenced in the review platforms, directories and 'best of [city]' roundups models trust is earned over time, as is building quotable answer-style content that gets referenced. Expect 30–90 days for that layer to meaningfully shift which business the model names.

How do I know it's working?Baseline, fix, re-scan. Run a free Cited scan to get today's score, land the mechanical fixes first, then watch the score and your share of answer with daily monitoring (from $39/mo). If the number doesn't move, you know to escalate to the citation work rather than guessing.

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