how to get cited by chatgpt
This is one of the five queries behind this directory. We sent it to a web search, kept every source the results returned, then asked a model the same question 6 times and recorded which sources it actually cited. 4 of the 9 sources were cited at least once.
What we measured
Measured 2026-10-16 · gpt-oss-20b via text.pollinations.ai (alias "openai") · read the page body · 6 of 6 runs usable for this query
aigradetool.com
Free AI Visibility Score for Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT
citegrade.com
Citegrade — Get Your Website Cited by ChatGPT & AI Search
webvello.com
Get Found on Google & AI Search | Webvello SEO & GEO
citedom.com
CiteDom — Get Cited by AI Search Engines | GEO-16 Analysis
reddgrow.ai
ReddGrow | Get Cited by ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity
aeocitationbuilder.com
AEO Citation Builder — Get Cited by AI Search Engines
aivisibilitypartners.com
GEO Agency | Get Your Brand Cited by AI Search Engines
motionexalabs.com
AI Visibility & GEO Audits for SaaS, Get Cited by ChatGPT
geoaiglobals.com
GeoDetect — Get Your Brand Cited by AI Search Engines
Titles and domains come from the pages themselves, so you can find them. The citation count, the rank, the word count and the retrieval access are our measurement, and the method is published in full.
What this query shows
The most-cited source in this pool was aigradetool.com — named in 6 of the 6 runs we could measure.
The lowest-ranked source that still got cited was citegrade.com (#5 on entry, cited 5 of 6 times) — search position and citation are not the same thing.
5 of the 9 sources in this pool were never cited in any run. A zero here is a result we publish, not a result we hide.
1 source was cited in every single run: aigradetool.com.
Across the 6 runs, the set of cited sources overlapped by 0.628 on average (range 0.250–1.000). That is partly settled — there is a stable core, and room around it.
Where this query sits
Of the 5 queries we measured, this one sits #4 on our list of the queries that are still open, ordered by how much the cited set changes between runs.
The other four queries
Questions this query answers
Is being crawled the same as being cited?
No. In this query's pool 4 of 9 sources were cited at least once; the rest were reachable and still skipped. Crawling is the entry condition, not the outcome.
Why was my page cited in one run and not in another?
Because the cited set is not fixed. Average overlap between runs on this query is 0.628. A single run is a snapshot, not a score.
How long does it take for a fix to show up?
We do not know, and we will not guess. Our data is a snapshot taken on 2026-10-16; we have not run a time series, so any figure in weeks would be invented.
This page is the data for that query. If you want the checklist version — what to change on your site, and in what order — it is here: How to get cited by ChatGPT: a technical checklist.