My local business now appears in Google AI Overviews

Running a plumbing business in a mid-sized UK city. Started this AI visibility journey 8 weeks ago with zero AI presence. Here's the update: **What I did:** - AI Verified Silver tier (domain verified) - Complete Google Business Profile with 47 photos, full service list, Q&A section - Added LocalBusiness + Plumber schema to homepage - Created 5 service pages each with HowTo schema (e.g., "How to fix a dripping tap") - Added FAQPage schema to a "Common plumbing questions" page **Result:** My business now appears in Google AI Overviews for "[city] emergency plumber" and "[city] boiler repair". **The HowTo schema was unexpected.** I added it thinking it would help with featured snippets, but it seems to have significantly improved AI Overview appearances for service-related queries. **Revenue impact:** Hard to attribute directly, but we've had 3 customers specifically mention they found us through "the AI search thing" in the past 2 weeks.