How to Get Cited by ChatGPT: A Practitioner’s Playbook
A plumber in Ohio asked ChatGPT, “Who does emergency drain cleaning near me?” and got three business names with links. None of them ran ads. One was a two-person shop…
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A plumber in Ohio asked ChatGPT, “Who does emergency drain cleaning near me?” and got three business names with links. None of them ran ads. One was a two-person shop…
Ask ChatGPT to recommend a plumber in your city, and it names three or four businesses. If yours isn’t one of them, you don’t exist in that answer. The customer…
A visitor lands on your service page, waits two beats for the hero image to appear, then taps a button that doesn’t respond. Three seconds later they’re gone, and that…
A business redesigned its website over a weekend, launched Monday morning, and watched organic traffic fall 60% by Thursday. The cause wasn’t the new design. It was a robots.txt file…
A clean new design can quietly erase years of search visibility in a single launch. Here’s a common pattern: a business pushes a beautiful new site live on a Friday.…
A new website goes live on a Monday. By Friday, organic traffic has dropped. The site looks great. Nobody set up redirects from the old URLs. This is a costly…
A local roofing company was getting maybe three inquiries a month from its website while a competitor across town pulled ten times that. Same city, same services, roughly the same…
Picture a software company that discovers ChatGPT recommends a competitor by name to anyone asking for the “best tool for X.” Their own site ranks on page one of Google,…
You launched a solid website, published a handful of blog posts, and then the traffic line flattened. No growth. No inquiries. Just a dashboard that looks the same every Monday.…