Every few months a tactic from classic SEO gets rebadged for the AI-search era, and in 2026 it is the local page. HubSpot's answer-engine-optimisation trends piece puts "use local pages to your advantage" at the top of its list, and agencies have started pitching country-page programmes as an AEO deliverable. Before anyone commissions forty city pages, two things being blurred need separating: the
What this covers
- What HubSpot's trends piece actually says
- How AI engines localise answers — what the owners document
- ChatGPT: IP-based location and query rewriting
- Gemini: documented for the consumer apps, not for API grounding
- The doorway trap: Google wrote the policy for exactly this
This is a technical summary. The full guide — with the tables and worked examples — is on our site: *Local Pages for AI Visibility: Do Geographic Pages Win AI Citations in 2026?*.
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