Get more San Jose customers from Google and ChatGPT
In San Jose, 550,327 residents aged 5 and over speak a language other than English at home. Licheo writes your website and Google listing in Vietnamese, Spanish, Chinese or English, whichever your customers read, so Google and ChatGPT can find you.
Most of our clients are in Metro Vancouver, where Licheo is based. The work is the same for a business in San Jose.
VanPlex, Vancouver, BC: VanPlex transforms Vancouver single-family lots into profitable multiplexes, pairing address-first feasibility data with a builder to developer team that carries each project from the first zoning check all the way to a finished, income-producing building.
MultiLiving, Greater Vancouver, BC: A marketplace built entirely around multiplex homes, duplexes, triplexes and fourplexes, bringing live MLS listings, market data and pre-sales together for buyers who want more than the detached-house option.
Icon Projects, Greater Vancouver & Fraser Valley, BC: A CHBA Master Residential Builder that designs and constructs custom homes and multiplexes across Greater Vancouver, building, as they like to say, for real life rather than for the magazine cover.
Jeff and Simon Ironworks, Metro Vancouver, BC: A CWB-certified welding and fabrication shop that designs, builds and installs structural steel, staircases, railings, gates and custom architectural metalwork for residential, commercial and industrial projects.
Vancouver Stairs, Metro Vancouver, BC: Custom mono-stringer stairs, floating staircases, commercial egress stairs and glass railings, fabricated and installed by a CWB-certified steel shop in Burnaby for homes and businesses across the region.
Vanhess Jewellery, Coquitlam, BC: A family-run studio crafting Canadian-made solid-gold jewellery, engagement rings, wedding bands and bespoke pieces, where each client sits directly with the jeweller through a five-step, hand-finished process.
What Licheo does for a San Jose business
A new website, live in two weeks. We move your site to our platform and keep your design and your pages. It loads fast on a phone, and every page shows a visitor how to call you or book.
A page for each service and each area. People often search for the job and the place together. We write one clear page for each service you offer and for each area you serve.
Your Google listing, kept correct. We set up your Google Business Profile, keep your hours, services and photos up to date, and help you ask happy customers for reviews.
Ready for ChatGPT and Google's AI answers. We write your services, your areas and the answers to your customers' common questions so that AI assistants can read them and name your business when someone asks.
A short report every month. You see how many people contacted you through your site and where they found you. Our AI agents do the daily work, and a person on our team checks every change.
Most San Jose residents speak another language at home
Of the 938,859 San Jose residents aged 5 and over, 550,327 speak a language other than English at home. That is 58.62%. 205,936 speak Spanish, 96,666 Vietnamese, 76,984 a Chinese language and 30,010 Tagalog. When the Census asked the Vietnamese speakers about their English, 59,224 gave a lower answer than the best one.
For many San Jose businesses, adding a second language is one of the first jobs. If you serve Vietnamese families, a Vietnamese page for your main services, prepared by a fluent writer, gives them the details in the language they read best. List your team's languages in your Google listing and beside the phone number on every page. Keep the English page as complete as the translated one, since 388,532 residents speak only English.
Fewer residents in San Jose, more in Santa Clara and Mountain View
San Jose had 1,013,419 residents in April 2020 and 997,368 on July 1, 2024, a loss of 16,051. Next door, Santa Clara grew from 127,863 to 133,132 and Mountain View from 82,537 to 87,316. Santa Clara County as a whole went from 1,936,278 to 1,926,325.
What does this mean for an owner? If you cross into Santa Clara, Sunnyvale or Milpitas for work, your website should say so, with a page for each city and real jobs on it. With fewer people in San Jose than in 2020, the customers you already have deserve more of your attention: ask them for reviews, answer every one, and keep your hours correct on Google.
Japantown, Story Road and the other business districts
The City maps 10 neighborhood business districts, among them Japantown, Willow Glen, The Alameda, Story Road, Alum Rock Avenue and Winchester Boulevard. It also divides its land into 15 planning areas, from Alviso to Almaden. If your shop or restaurant sits in one of these districts, name it on your website and in your Google listing, and explain how to get there: parking, the nearest cross street, the bus line.
If you work across the city instead, write a page for each planning area you serve, such as Berryessa or Evergreen, with photos of work done there and your usual arrival time.
Over the same period, Santa Clara grew from 127,863 to 133,132 residents and Mountain View from 82,537 to 87,316. Santa Clara County went from 1,936,278 to 1,926,325. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 population estimates.
96,666 San Jose residents aged 5 and over speak Vietnamese at home, and 59,224 of them gave a lower answer than the best one when the Census asked how well they speak English. 205,936 speak Spanish, 76,984 a Chinese language and 30,010 Tagalog. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates, table C16001.
The City of San Jose divides its land into 15 planning areas, among them Alviso, Berryessa, Evergreen, Almaden, Willow Glen and Central. Source: City of San Jose Open Data, Planning Areas.
We write a page for each area you serve, for example:
Japantown
Willow Glen
The Alameda
Alum Rock
Berryessa
Evergreen
Almaden
Edenvale
Alviso
Cambrian/Pioneer
Santa Clara
Sunnyvale
Milpitas
Campbell
How it starts
Run the free Get Found Check. Type your website address. In under a minute you see how your business shows up on Google and in AI answers, next to your competitors.
Talk with us. A short call about your services, the areas you serve and the customers you want more of.
We build, then keep working. Your new site is live in two weeks. After that, the work goes on every week.
Questions San Jose owners ask us
Why does a San Jose competitor rank above me on Google Maps?
Their listing tells Google more about what they do and where. Check your San Jose listing for the wrong main category, few recent reviews or old photos. Santa Clara County averaged 3,973 restaurants and other eating places and 2,472 specialty trade contractors in 2024, so small details decide who appears first. Our free Get Found Check compares you with a competitor.
Should my San Jose website have pages for Willow Glen, Berryessa or Evergreen?
Yes, for each San Jose planning area where you take work. The City divides San Jose into 15 planning areas, from Alviso to Almaden, and each one has its own streets and customers. A useful area page names a recent job there, your arrival time and the way to book. Areas you never visit do not need a page.
Do I need a Spanish or Chinese version of my San Jose website?
Add the one your customers use. In San Jose, 205,936 residents aged 5 and over speak Spanish at home and 76,984 speak a Chinese language. Start with the services people ask for most, have a fluent writer prepare them, and link each translated page to the matching English page. List your team's languages on your Google listing as well.
Santa Clara County has more dental offices than doctors' offices. How does my San Jose dental practice get chosen?
By answering a patient's questions before the first call. Santa Clara County averaged 1,477 offices of dentists and 1,440 offices of physicians in 2024, so a San Jose patient has a long list of dentists. Write a page for each treatment, list the insurance you accept and your languages, show the office and the team, and offer online booking on every page.
Where does ChatGPT get its information about San Jose businesses like mine?
From what is written about you online. ChatGPT and Google's AI answers draw on your own pages, your Google listing, your reviews and the directories that list your San Jose business, in English and in other languages. We describe what you offer, where you work and which languages you speak in plain words, make the details match from one site to the next, and test every month whether ChatGPT names you.
Can my San Jose business keep the website it has today?
Yes. Your San Jose site comes across to our platform with its design, pages and address intact, so Google keeps what it has learned about you. Within two weeks the move is complete. After that we build the missing parts, pages for services, areas and languages, and something new goes on the site every week.
How will I find out if San Jose customers are coming from the website?
Our monthly report tells you, in plain words. It lists the calls, requests and bookings your site produced, and for each San Jose customer it notes the starting point: search results, Google Maps, ChatGPT or another site's link. Compare one month with the next to see the trend, and ask us about any figure you want explained.
What does the free Get Found Check report for a San Jose business?
A letter grade, the fixes to make first and a comparison with competitors, all in under a minute. The check reads your San Jose website and tells you if Google, ChatGPT and other AI tools can follow your services, areas and languages. You pay nothing, you create no account, and you can check again after every change you make.
Most of my San Jose customers are Vietnamese. What should my Google listing say?
Say in the description that your team speaks Vietnamese, and answer reviews in the language they were written in. 96,666 San Jose residents aged 5 and over speak Vietnamese at home, and 59,224 of them told the Census their English is under its highest level. Add Vietnamese service pages on your website, written by a person who speaks it, and link them from your listing.
See how your business shows up in San Jose
The Get Found Check is free and takes under a minute. It shows what customers see about you on Google and in AI answers, and what to fix first.