GuideHow to optimize your site for ChatGPT
Getting ChatGPT to recommend your business comes down to four things you control, in order: let it read you, let it resolve you, let it trust you, and give it something quotable to say. Skip step one and nothing else matters — plenty of good businesses quietly block the crawlers ChatGPT relies on.
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What's the very first thing to check?Your robots.txt. If it blocks GPTBot or OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT physically can't read your site — a surprisingly common own-goal. Unblock the AI crawlers before anything else.
What do I add after that?Entity clarity (Organization/LocalBusiness schema, an llms.txt file, a homepage that plainly states what you do and where), then citations on the review sites and roundups ChatGPT trusts, then direct, quotable answers to the questions buyers ask.
How do I know what's blocking me specifically?Run a free Cited scan — it checks whether ChatGPT can read and resolve you, scores whether it names you today, and hands you the highest-impact fix first.
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