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ChatGPT optimisation

When a buyer asks ChatGPT who to call, be the answer.

ChatGPT recommends two or three providers and explains why. We work on the sources it draws from, your pages and what others say about you, so your business is one of the names.

4+ years
Average client relationship
4.9 / 5
Rating on Clutch
Since 2014
Independent, Australian owned
  • LegalVision
  • Sequoia Financial Group
  • The Fred Hollows Foundation
  • Bloomberg
  • Harbour Trust
  • Audi Australia
  • Fast Cover
  • NAPCAN
  • Frasers Property
  • Livewire Markets
  • Morningstar
  • Aventus
  • hipages
  • Nutra Organics
  • Chatime
  • GEMI Investments
  • DJ City
  • Kooee
  • Euro Marble
  • McPherson's

How ChatGPT decides who to recommend.

Nobody outside OpenAI has the full picture. These are the patterns that hold up when we test them.

It searches the web, mostly through Bing

When ChatGPT needs current information it runs a web search, drawing heavily on Bing's index alongside its own crawler. If your site is weak in Bing or blocks OpenAI's crawler, you are invisible before the conversation starts.

Recommendations come from what others say

Ask ChatGPT for the best provider and it leans on third-party pages: directories, comparison articles, review sites, forums and news. Your own site rarely wins that argument alone.

It quotes pages that answer plainly

Cited passages are direct, factual and self-contained. Marketing copy that circles the point does not get lifted.

It needs to be sure who you are

Consistent business facts across your site, directories and profiles, plus organisation schema, help it match mentions to your brand rather than a competitor with a similar name.

Fresh beats stale

For anything that changes, ChatGPT prefers recent sources. Pages with visible dates and real updates get picked over old evergreen content.

You can measure it

Referrals from chatgpt.com show in GA4. Citation share on your buyer prompts can be tracked monthly. Both are better signals than rankings for this channel.

Fix access, make pages quotable, build the evidence.

Most of the work happens off your site. That is the part agencies used to rankings tend to skip.

  1. 01

    Baseline

    Your buyer prompts run in ChatGPT: who is named, who is cited, and what sources it used.

  2. 02

    Technical access

    Confirm Bing indexing, crawler access for OpenAI, clean rendering and organisation schema.

  3. 03

    Quotable pages

    Rewrite the pages that should be cited so each answers one question directly, with the facts up front.

  4. 04

    Third-party presence

    Earn mentions where ChatGPT looks: relevant directories, comparison pieces, industry publications and reviews.

  5. 05

    Track and extend

    Monthly citation share and GA4 referrals, then expand to the next set of prompts.

Recommended across five AI platforms, from a standing start.

An Australian finance company came to us with a new product and no organic presence. Seven months later it was recommended as a top option in ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and Grok, with organic impressions up 640% and qualified pipeline four times higher year on year. The approach was the one described above: measure first, fix access and structure, then build the third-party evidence the engines rely on.

If you want to know where you stand today, the free AI visibility check runs your buyer questions through ChatGPT and three other engines and shows you who is being recommended instead. For how Google's own AI answers differ, see Google AI Overviews optimisation.

ChatGPT and your business, answered.

Yes, within limits. You cannot buy a placement, and there is no ranking algorithm to game. But ChatGPT draws on sources you can influence: your own pages, third-party mentions, reviews and consistent facts about your business. Improving those changes what it says over time. It is one part of our AI search optimisation service.

Who does ChatGPT recommend in your market?

Tell us your website and what your buyers ask. We will run it through ChatGPT and show you who is being named and why.

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Website and market, plus a few buyer questions if you have them. A senior specialist replies within two business days.

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