Who does AI name for propane delivery in your county?

Ask an AI engine who delivers propane in your county and write down the names it returns. That list is the county gap. Opportunity framing: AI currently surfaces these providers in your county; here is what to do to earn your place alongside them. The operator is not losing — they are uncredited.

How do you run the check without inventing a score?

Use the questions a buyer types. Who delivers propane near this town. Who fills tanks in this county. Who to call for a tank set. Run them for the county the plant actually covers, not a state. Write down who is named and who is not.

If a 0–100 score is shown at all, it carries its fix list and this sentence: representative sample via web search, not a direct measurement. A bare grade with no fixes is not a useful report. The free audit on this site is built that way: free AI visibility audit.

What local signals does the engine use?

Name, address, and phone that match the Google Business Profile. Hours that match the office. Towns in the service area that match the trucks. LocalBusiness markup with a GeoCircle of 35 miles, anchored to the office coordinates. For a pure service-area dealer, do not publish a walk-in street address in that node.

Public pages on this site print a 30-35 mile delivery radius as the usual circle. Your configured area is the truth. A GeoCircle that claims 80 miles when the trucks run 35 is a local-signal miss, not a ranking trick. Multi-office dealers emit one LocalBusiness node per office, each with its own circle.

This is a copy-paste pattern for the dealer's own site. It is not a LocalBusiness claim about Propane Insider. We do not deliver propane.

{
  "@type": "LocalBusiness",
  "name": "<Dealer Name>",
  "telephone": "<phone as on the Google Business Profile>",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": "<office lat, 5+ decimals>",
    "longitude": "<office lon, 5+ decimals>"
  },
  "serviceArea": {
    "@type": "GeoCircle",
    "geoMidpoint": {
      "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
      "latitude": "<same lat>",
      "longitude": "<same lon>"
    },
    "geoRadius": "35 mi"
  }
}

Replace the placeholders with the dealer's real NAP. The phone in that node must be the same digits the Google Business Profile shows. A mismatch is a confidence penalty in the entity graph.

What else has to match besides the circle?

The Google Business Profile service-area list should name the same towns the schema lists. City pages should exist only inside that radius. Crawlers named in robots.txt should be allowed. Answer-shaped pages should use the words a buyer types. See how AI engines find a propane company and how propane companies use a Google Business Profile.

We do not emit a star-rating schema node from a number we invented. Stars belong to the Google Business Profile when they are real.

How does PIMS use this gap?

PIMS is the whole marketing department for an independent propane dealer, inside one subscription. The county-gap check is one input to local SEO and AI-search setup. The dealer still approves what publishes. We do not print a PIMS price on this page.

Bill Stomp ran 87 branch offices across 12 states over a 25-year operator career, combat veteran. He's since helped 200+ propane companies. Those numbers belong to him. They are not your record and they are not a customer's record. Homeowners looking up a local propane company should use the propane company directory. Operators start on the PIMS overview.

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Last reviewed: September 2026

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