B
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40
40 -- average geoscore for US businesses (2026)
The average GeoScore for businesses in the US is 40 out of 100.
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Value
40
Unit
Score
Data Vintage
2026
Entity
Sample Size
1,300
Evidence Quality
B
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Sourced from a well-regarded research firm or industry leader with transparent methodology and a reasonably large sample.
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
60
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Surfeo
Primary
Tier B
https://surfeo.ai/en/blog/how-to-appear-in-chatgpt ↗
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How to Appear in ChatGPT: A Practical Guide for SMBs
How to Appear in ChatGPT: A Practical Guide for SMBs
To appear in ChatGPT, you need to make your business easy for AI to understand, trust, and recommend. This requires a complete Google Business Profile, Schema markup (3.7x more likely to be cited), answer-first content, recent detailed reviews, an…
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US businesses: 40 average geoscore. Source: Surfeo (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/surfeo-geoscore-us
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