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How do I get my business recommended by ChatGPT and AI search?
AI assistants recommend businesses whose websites answer real customer questions in plain, crawlable text with clear structure — the discipline now called AEO (Answer Engine Optimization). The levers: publish direct answers to the questions your buyers actually ask, use structured data (schema markup), keep pages fast and readable without JavaScript, and earn mentions on pages AI systems already trust.
Why this matters now
A growing share of “which company should I use for X” decisions in India start inside ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, or Google’s AI Overviews instead of a results page. If AI can’t read and summarize what you do, you don’t exist in those answers — your competitor does.
The levers, in order of impact
- Answer real questions, directly. AI cites pages that resolve a query in the first paragraph. A services brochure (“we offer 360° solutions”) gives an AI nothing to quote. A page titled with the buyer’s actual question, answered plainly, gets cited. (You’re reading this format right now.)
- Be machine-readable. Plain HTML that renders without JavaScript,
FAQPage/Articleschema markup, honest headings, visible dates. Many AI crawlers read JS-heavy sites as blank pages — we’ve watched beautiful agency sites render as literally nothing in a headless browser. - Say who you are, concretely. AI engines prefer recommending identifiable businesses: name, city, what you do, who you serve, real proof. Anonymous brands get summarized; identifiable ones get recommended.
- Earn trusted mentions. Reviews, directories, press, and client write-ups on domains AI already trusts feed the recommendation graph. This is the slow, compounding lever.
The honest timeline
AEO compounds like SEO: weeks to get indexed, months to earn citations. Anyone selling “#1 on ChatGPT in 30 days” is selling the 2026 version of “#1 on Google guaranteed.”
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Published 16 July 2026 · TaleCrafters
