How Do You Get Cited by ChatGPT?

Getting cited by ChatGPT starts with letting it in. ChatGPT search uses a crawler called OAI-SearchBot, separate from the crawler used for model training, and it respects robots.txt, so a blocked site simply cannot be cited.

Past that, the content itself needs to look citable: a direct answer stated plainly, specific facts instead of vague claims, and a topic covered clearly enough that the model does not need to guess at meaning.

Consistency across the wider web helps too. A model weighs whether other sites say the same thing about a topic, so a page that contradicts common knowledge, even correctly, tends to get cited less.

Writing pages that meet all three conditions is what LLM SEO software does for every page it publishes.