Written for the owner who runs the business — not the marketer who works at one. Plain English. Concrete examples. No hype.
The ZAP Score is a single number, 0 to 100, that indicates whether customers can find your business across Google and AI search engines. It's built from five weighted dimensions — Google Business Profile, on-page SEO, schema markup, AI engine answers, and citations & reviews. This is a plain-English walk-through of all five: what each measures, why it matters, and what actually moves it.
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