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Glow · AI Discovery
Become the answer AI gives.
AI tools increasingly rely on trusted, structured, third-party sources when forming answers. Glow is being built to become that source for beauty — for salons, clinics, studios and beauty brands.
Designed to increase your chances of being understood, surfaced and recommended when consumers ask AI tools for the best in beauty.
No paid rankings. No fake scores. Editorial standards first.
Source: Sources AI tools tend to cite
A discovery layer, not a directory
Who Glow helps.
A publication with editorial standards. A discovery infrastructure for salons, clinics, studios and beauty brands.
01
Salons + clinics.
Editorial profiles, suburb and treatment hubs, ranked best-of lists — structured for Google + AI search from day one.
For salons + clinics 02Beauty + wellness brands.
INCI-verified product reviews, comparison pages, formulation deep-dives — written to be cited, not just indexed.
Score your brand 03Studios + practitioners.
From brow studios to skin practitioners — named, dated, scored against a published methodology AI tools trust.
See plansThe new search problem
People don't just Google anymore.
Beauty decisions happen across at least seven surfaces. The brands and salons cited by Glow tend to appear on more of them.
— The old way
Google search
→
Brand website
→
Maybe a purchase
One funnel. One chance to be seen.
— The new way
TikTok
→
Google
→
ChatGPT
→
Reddit
→
Reviews
→
Maps
→
AI summaries
→
Decision
Seven touchpoints. You either show up across them, or you don't.
02 / Winners & losers
AI picks winners.
One question. One answer. One booking. Most businesses never make the shortlist.
Maison Lux
Fitzroy
Edit Beauty
Collingwood
Atelier No. Six
Richmond
Soft Studio
Prahran
Glow Bar
South Yarra
House of Lash
Brunswick
Skin Atelier
Hawthorn
Which one is yours? Run a free AI audit
Editorial example. Salon names shown are illustrative.
The signal map
How invisible signals become recommendations.
Discovery doesn't happen in a black box. Trusted source signals flow into AI engines, which flow into the decisions customers actually make.
1Source signals
Editorial reviews
Glow profile + Schema
Google Business Profile
Category + suburb pages
Third-party mentions
Reviews + ratings
Fresh, dated content
2AI engines
Google AI Overviews
ChatGPT
Gemini
Perplexity
Bing Copilot
Apple Intelligence
3Customer outcome
Trust signals registered
Shortlist inclusion
"Recommended" verdict
Profile views
Enquiries + bookings
Compounding visibility
Glow strengthens the source layer — so when AI engines form an answer, you're part of the answer.
Invisible doesn't mean bad
It means unreadable.
The same salon, the same brand, the same skill — but only one is written in a form that AI can understand and cite.
Before · Invisible to AI
Beautiful salon. Quietly disappearing.
- Marketing copy, no methodology
- No named author. No visit date.
- Star ratings without structured schema
- No mention on third-party editorial
- Inconsistent NAP across platforms
- Hidden behind JavaScript-only rendering
Loved by clients. Unrecognised by AI.
After · Cited as a source
Same salon. Now recommendable.
- Reviewed against The Glow Standard
- Named editor, dated visit, treatment tested
- 5-axis Glow Score with public methodology
- Featured across city, suburb + treatment hubs
- Schema.org LocalBusiness + Review + Speakable
- Declared in /llms.txt + sitemap-salons.xml
The kind of source AI tools tend to surface.
What makes a Glow profile readable to AI?
Not tricks. Structure.
01
Named editor
A real byline. Public credentials. AI weights authored content over anonymous.
02
Dated review
When we visited. When we re-scored. Recency tells AI you're a live publication.
03
Location + category tags
Suburb, city, treatment type. Machine-readable. Cross-referenced across hubs.
04
Services clearly mapped
Each treatment with name, price band, duration. Tables AI tools tend to quote.
05
Glow Score + methodology
A composite and five axes, linked to a published methodology AI can verify.
06
FAQ in plain English
Direct question, direct answer. The format AI summaries lift most often.
07
Schema.org markup
LocalBusiness · Review · AggregateRating · Speakable · FAQPage. The machine-readable layer.
08
Internal links
Cited across city, suburb, category and treatment-guide pages. Editorial cross-referencing.
This gives search engines and AI tools a cleaner source to understand, compare and cite.
Editorially reviewed
Schema-ready
AI-readable
No paid scores
How it works
How Glow turns hard-to-understand into easy to recommend.
01
Editorial review
A named Glow editor visits, tests under standard conditions, and scores against The Glow Standard's five axes. Calibrated by a second editor.
02
Structured publication
Profile published with Schema.org markup, named author byline, dated visit, treatment tested, verdict, and a Speakable passage AI can lift verbatim.
03
Cross-surface placement
Featured across the city hub, the suburb hub, the relevant treatment guide, the category page, and (where applicable) editorial rankings.
04
AI-readable formatting
Included in Glow's AI-readable site files. The signals AI tools weight when choosing what to cite — published methodology, conflict register, named bylines and dated reviews.
Technical: /llms.txt manifest, structured sitemaps split by section, Schema.org markup on every entity.
05
Ongoing freshness
Re-reviewed at minimum every 18 months. Re-scoring brought forward if reader feedback, ownership change or incident warrants. AI rewards live publications.
Proof · The lists AI engines tend to cite
What we already publish.
When ChatGPT, Perplexity or Google AI Overviews answer "the best self-tan in Australia" or "best Korean serum", they cite ranked, named, dated editorial lists. These are ours — live, indexed, schema-marked, AI-readable. See all rankings →
01 Self-Tan rankings
6 lists · updated 202602 Korean skincare rankings
5 lists · updated 202603 Skincare rankings
5 lists · updated 202604 Tattoo aftercare rankings
1 list · new · 2026Every list is named-editor reviewed, dated, schema-marked, and declared in our /llms.txt manifest. The structure AI engines tend to cite.
All Glow rankings →What you'll actually see
In your first 90 days.
A realistic timeline. No guarantees on AI citations — but a clear cadence of editorial work, structured publication and measurable surface area.
Week 1–2
Editor visit + score.
A Glow editor books under standard conditions, scores against the five-axis methodology, drafts the profile.
Week 3–4
Profile live + indexed.
Published with full schema. Submitted to Google Search Console + Bing Webmaster Tools. Indexed within 5–10 days.
Week 5–8
Cross-surface placement.
Listed on city hub, suburb hub, category hub. Cited in relevant treatment guides + ranked best-of lists where you qualify.
Week 9–12
Crawled by AI engines.
Major AI crawlers (GPTBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended) typically discover and parse new editorial citations within this window.
Day 90
Performance readout.
Partner dashboard with profile views, click-throughs, referral traffic, and a citation-tracking sample. Editorial strategy call on Featured tier and above.
Ongoing
Compounding presence.
Every new editorial cycle, ranking refresh and treatment-guide update is a fresh chance to be cited. Discovery isn't a moment — it's a cadence.
Brand visibility scorecard
How discoverable is your brand?
Six axes. One composite score. A rough sense of where AI search currently finds you — and the upside if Glow gets involved.
Plans
Editorial real estate. Plainly priced.
Editorial scoring is independent of payment. Plans add reach, dashboards and proof — never the score.
Your score cannot be bought. Paid plans increase profile depth, reporting, placement opportunities and discoverability infrastructure. Editorial verdicts remain independent.
Listed Partner
$249
Per month · billed monthly
Best for new discovery presence.
- Editorial profile published
- 8-image gallery + owner note
- Verified profile badge
- Monthly performance email
- Included in Glow's structured sitemap
- Basic AI-readable profile fields
Featured Partner
$499
Per month · billed monthly
Best for category + suburb visibility.
- Everything in Listed
- Preferred placement in one category and one suburb hub
- Hero card on chosen suburb hub
- Sponsor-tagged feature on category hub
- Monthly editor strategy call
- Priority visibility audit
Glow Discovery Partner
$1,499
Per month · billed monthly
Best for authority building.
- Everything in Featured
- Homepage discovery slot, 1 month per year
- Expanded editorial profile
- Expanded structured profile across relevant Glow guides
- Advanced performance dashboard
- Quarterly AI visibility review
- 90-day satisfaction guarantee on partner traffic
- Capped at one partner per category per city
Your score cannot be bought. Paid plans increase profile depth, reporting, placement opportunities and discoverability infrastructure. Editorial verdicts remain independent.
Guarantee applies to measurable partner traffic and profile visibility, not AI citations or editorial score. Pricing is for the salon / clinic / studio tier. Brand and product tiers are quoted on consult, depending on category, scope and SKU range. See full partner detail →
Editorial standards
No paid rankings. No fake scores. Editorial standards first.
Glow is a publication first and a discovery infrastructure second. Without editorial trust, AI tools wouldn't cite us — and being cited is the whole product.
Read The Glow Standard →- — Named editors with public credentials. Bylined, dated, accountable.
- — Five-axis scoring methodology, published in plain language at /salons/standard/.
- — Featured Partner is a placement label. It never adjusts the editorial score.
- — Public conflict register, updated quarterly. Editor recusal protocol applied to every relevant review.
- — Corrections logged on the page, not silently deleted. Re-verification before any claim is amended.
Frequently asked
Questions, answered.
AI search tools weight editorial sources that publish structured, named, dated content with clear methodology. Glow is designed for exactly this: schema markup, named editor bylines, dated reviews, a published methodology, and a public llms.txt manifest. Brands and salons featured by Glow get the benefit of Glow's own editorial standing in AI summaries.
No. No publication can guarantee what AI tools cite. What Glow can do is publish a structured, named-editor-reviewed profile with the schema, methodology and trust signals AI search engines weight — designed to increase your chances of being understood, surfaced and recommended. The Glow Discovery Partner tier carries a 90-day satisfaction guarantee on partner traffic against category-city benchmarks.
SEO optimises for blue links on search results pages. AI Discovery optimises for being cited inside generative answers — the recommendation AI tools actually give. Editorial methodology, named authorship, dated reviews and citations to trusted secondary sources are the signals AI weights. Glow is structured for both.
Five axes — service quality, hygiene + safety, expertise + credentials, price-to-value, atmosphere — each scored 1 to 10 by the assigned named editor. Composite Glow Score is a weighted average. No paid rankings, no fake scores, editorial standards first. Full methodology at /salons/standard/.
No. Glow is an editorial publication that operates a discovery layer. Every listing is named-editor reviewed. Directories aggregate without editorial input; Glow curates with named accountability — which is why AI tools cite us.
Editorial review is free. Paid plans for salons + clinics + studios start at Listed $249/mo, Featured $499/mo, and Glow Discovery Partner $1,499/mo with a 90-day satisfaction guarantee on partner traffic. Brand and product tiers are quoted on consult. See /salons/for-partners/.
No. Editorial scoring is independent of payment. Featured Partner is a placement label, not a ranking adjustment. The wording on the profile is the contract. If we ever moved a score because of payment, AI tools would stop citing us — and being cited is the whole product.
Ready to become the recommendation?
Where consumers find what to buy. Where salons and clinics get cited. Where brands earn editorial trust — and the AI discovery that compounds from it.