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        "text": "DIY local AEO is feasible if you’re **organized and comfortable with basic web tools**, but most businesses benefit from at least some professional help once the foundation is set. The tricky part is schema, multi-location data, and monitoring AI citations.\n\nDecide based on your time, complexity, and tolerance for experimentation.\n\n**Key factors** \n- Number of locations and services you need to cover. \n- Your ability to write clear, user-friendly answers. \n- Comfort level with technical tasks like schema markup and NAP cleanup. \n- Time available for ongoing monitoring and iteration.\n\nStart by doing the non-technical pieces yourself (FAQs, reviews, profile updates) and only bring in specialists or software once you hit a technical wall or scale issue.\n\nThink of pros as accelerators and guardrails, not magicians; if you can’t understand what they’re doing, that’s a red flag.",
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        "description": "You can handle **foundational local AEO** yourself—clean profiles, gather reviews, write FAQs—but technical items like schema, multi-location complexity, and AI citation monitoring often justify a specialist or software. Start DIY, then add help when you hit scale or technical limits."
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  "description": "You can handle **foundational local AEO** yourself—clean profiles, gather reviews, write FAQs—but technical items like schema, multi-location complexity, and AI"
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