How to Get Recommended by ChatGPT and AI Overviews
A practical guide to how AI assistants pick the brands they recommend, and the seven steps that get your brand into those answers. It is for B2B and SaaS marketing teams who want AI search to send them buyers.
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How to Get Recommended by ChatGPT and AI Overviews, chapter by chapter.
- How AI search picks answers
- Find the prompts your buyers ask
- Check where you show up today
- Get named on the pages AI cites
- Write pages AI can quote
- Give AI crawlers access
- Build brand mentions and entity signals
- Measure visibility, citations and traffic
- Your 30-day action plan
- How ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and Google AI Overviews find and cite pages, drawn from their own documentation.
- A method and template for building the list of prompts your buyers ask before they talk to sales.
- A step by step routine and log for checking where your brand shows up in AI answers today.
- Ways to get named on the lists, review sites, Reddit threads, videos and partner pages that AI engines cite.
- A checklist for writing pages that assistants can quote, with a before and after example.
- The AI crawler names, a sample robots.txt and the rendering and speed checks that keep your site readable.
- GA4 setup for AI referral traffic, a monthly scorecard and a 30-day action plan.
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Built for the people who do the work.
B2B and SaaS marketing leads
Use the seven steps and the 30-day plan to set up an AI search program and report on it each month.
SEO and content teams
Use the prompt types, the quotable page checklist and the citation gap worksheet to choose and rewrite pages.
Web and developer teams
Use the crawler table, the sample robots.txt and the rendering checks to keep AI crawlers able to read the site.
Before you download.
What is in this guide?
Seven steps to get your brand named in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and Google AI Overviews. It includes worksheets, a crawler table, GA4 setup and a 30-day plan.
Do I need special markup or an AI text file for AI Overviews?
No. Google sets no extra requirements for AI Overviews or AI Mode. A page needs to be indexed and eligible to show a snippet in Search.
Should I block GPTBot and other training crawlers?
Most B2B brands want models to know them, so we allow training crawlers unless a legal team objects. Blocking GPTBot does not remove you from ChatGPT search.
How do I see traffic from AI assistants in GA4?
Create a custom channel group with an AI assistants channel that matches AI referrer domains, and place it above Referral. The guide gives the exact regex.
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