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AI answers about local businesses lean on best-of lists that other sites publish. List Placement finds the ones cited for your buyers today, shows who publishes each and whether you are in it, and drafts an honest exchange proposal for the best fits. You send every email yourself.

4 min read7 stepsUpdated October 28, 2026

Before you start

  • Your Aha Studio accountList Placement is for members: 20 runs a month. There is no free demo, because it asks the AI engines about your own business. Unlimited with your own DataForSEO login after your first 14 days.
  • 3 to 5 real buyer questionsThe questions your buyers type into ChatGPT or Google, for example "What is the best emergency plumber in Leeds?". Suggest questions adds what people type into Google for your category and place.
  • Your own inboxProposals go to Outreach, which finds the address the publisher published. You send each one from your own Gmail or Outlook. Aha never sends an email for you.
Everything shown about a list is what the page itself says: the site name or byline, the link or the words that name you, the structured data that says they are a business. Nothing is guessed.
PART 01

Find the lists

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  1. Open List PlacementAt listplacement.ahastudio.net, or press Start something new on your account page and choose Find the lists AI cites.
  2. Check your detailsBusiness name, website and place come from your profile when they are there. Add What your business is in the words buyers use.
  3. Add the questions3 to 5, one per line. Each is asked of ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overview. The estimate is shown before you start.
  4. Press Find the listsThe answers are read first, then each best-of list among the pages cited. A failed step shows its cause and Retry; the answers already read are kept.
PART 02

What you get

What each question cites todayThe pages each AI answer cites, and Google's top results, with whether the answer cites you, names you, or neither. Best-of lists published by other sites are marked Best-of list.
The listsFor each list: Publisher (the site name or byline read on the page), You are in it (the link to your site or the words that name you), and List them in return (their own structured data says they are a business, or they list themselves).
The best fitsUp to 5 lists you are not in yet, cited for your questions, from a publisher you could help in return, each with a short proposal. No payment and no promised position, either way.
PART 03

Send the proposals

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  1. Tick the ones you meanTick I would genuinely recommend them on each fit you would happily recommend to your own customers. Only those go.
  2. Press Send to OutreachEach one becomes an Outreach prospect with the list and your proposal. Outreach finds the address they published and writes the email in your voice.
  3. Send it yourselfFrom Outreach, open each email in your own Gmail or Outlook, read it, and send it. Nothing is ever sent for you.
PART 04

Write my own list

Press Write it in SEO Magnets to write an honest list for your category and place. The brief carries the criteria, a table of the businesses the cited lists name with the lists that name each one (so a reader can check), and the order to keep.

Your business is never ranked first, wherever it would fall. Tick Include my business to include it with a disclosure line; leave it off for a list of others only. Preview the brief shows it first.

PART 05

Track it every week

Press Re-check every week on a finished run. Every 7 days the same questions are asked again and the Track table logs how often you are in the answers, how many best-of lists are cited, and which sites are cited most. Each re-check costs what the questions cost. Press Stop the weekly re-check to turn it off.

PART 06

Your limits

Each month20runs, each with up to 5 questions. Unlimited with your own DataForSEO login after your first 14 days.
Lists read15best-of lists per run, the most cited first
Sendingyoursevery email goes from your own inbox; Aha sends none
PART 07

If something looks wrong

Still stuck? Email support@anthonyhayes.me or open the help desk.
Ready to build?Fill in your business, what it is and where, add 3 to 5 questions, then press *Find the lists*.Open List Placement