Why isn't ChatGPT recommending my business?
Your website's robots file might be quietly telling AI crawlers to go away, wasting the time you spend rewriting descriptions. Even if you optimize your site with simple text and HTML, tracking your visibility is difficult because tools like ChatGPT give a different answer every time you ask.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
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- 1Publishing long-tail Q&A blog posts to target customer queries verbatimDid this help you?
- 2Unblocking AI crawlers like OAI-SearchBot and adjusting Cloudflare bot settingsDid this help you?
- 3Maintaining complete Google Business Profiles and collecting Google reviewsDid this help you?
- 4Posting content and transcripts to YouTubeDid this help you?
- 5Active brand mentions on Reddit and community forumsDid this help you?
- 6Testing top-selling products directly in AI assistants using real customer questionsDid this help you?
- 7Fleshing out factual data fields like origin, allergens, and weightDid this help you?
- 8Adding GTIN and product schema to top products to ensure they show up as buyableDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“It feels like our competitors are showing up more often than us but I dont have a good grip on this since every time I ask things on ChatGPT, answer is different.”source ↗
“In my case, optimized my website for it. My website isn't fancy just text, html, css...no images.”source ↗
“That 65% number is the one that stung when I checked my own store last year. I was busy rewriting descriptions while the robots file was quietly telling the crawlers to go away.”source ↗
Where this came up
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