Get Recommended by the World's Most Used AI

ChatGPT has over 200 million weekly active users asking it for product recommendations, service comparisons, and business advice. When someone asks "what's the best SEO agency in Manchester" or "recommend a good accountant near me", is your business the one ChatGPT names? We make sure it is.

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What We Do

What ChatGPT Optimization Actually Involves

ChatGPT is the most widely used AI assistant in the world, and it's increasingly being used as a search engine. Users ask it for recommendations, comparisons, how-to guidance, and buying advice across every industry. ChatGPT synthesises answers from web content it's been trained on and, through SearchGPT and browsing features, from real-time web results. The businesses that get cited are those with strong authority signals, comprehensive content, consistent brand mentions across trusted sources, and well-structured information that's easy for LLMs to parse. We optimize all of these factors systematically.

ChatGPT Citation Monitoring

We systematically test how ChatGPT responds to queries relevant to your business, across GPT-4o, GPT-4, and SearchGPT. We document when you're cited, when competitors are cited instead, the sentiment and accuracy of mentions, and track changes over time through our proprietary monitoring tools.

GPTBot Crawler Intelligence

OpenAI's GPTBot crawls the web to update ChatGPT's knowledge. Our Crawler Intelligence tool monitors GPTBot's behavior on your site, which pages it visits, how often, and what content it focuses on. This data shapes our optimization strategy at the source level.

Content Structured for ChatGPT

ChatGPT favors clear, factual, comprehensive content with definitive statements it can confidently cite. We create and restructure your content with explicit question-and-answer formats, citable facts, authoritative tone, and the depth of coverage that makes ChatGPT choose your site as its source.

Third-Party Authority Building

ChatGPT doesn't just reference your own website, it synthesises information from multiple sources. When your brand is mentioned positively across authoritative publications, review sites, and industry resources, ChatGPT is more likely to recommend you. We build these signals through digital PR and link building.

Schema & Structured Data

Organization, Product, FAQ, Review, and LocalBusiness schema that gives GPTBot explicit machine-readable context about your business, who you are, what you do, where you're located, and what customers think of you.

SearchGPT Optimization

ChatGPT's SearchGPT feature pulls real-time web results into AI responses. This means your SEO performance directly influences ChatGPT visibility, pages that rank well in Google are more likely to be surfaced by SearchGPT. We optimize for both simultaneously.

How We Work

Our Approach to ChatGPT Optimization

ChatGPT optimization sits at the intersection of content strategy, authority building, and technical SEO.

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ChatGPT Visibility Audit

We test hundreds of prompts relevant to your business across ChatGPT models, documenting every response, citation, competitor mention, and recommendation. This baseline audit reveals exactly where you stand, who ChatGPT recommends instead of you, and what's driving those recommendations.

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Content & Authority Strategy

Based on the audit, we identify the content gaps and authority signals needed to influence ChatGPT's recommendations. This typically involves creating comprehensive LLM-ready content, building third-party citations, and ensuring your technical SEO allows GPTBot full access to your content.

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Implementation

Content created and published. Schema markup deployed. GPTBot access configured in robots.txt. Digital PR campaigns targeting publications that ChatGPT actively references. Brand mention building across authoritative sources. All implemented by our in-house team.

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Ongoing Monitoring & Iteration

ChatGPT's responses evolve as it ingests new data. We re-test prompts weekly, track citation frequency trends, monitor GPTBot crawl behavior, and iterate on content and authority strategies. Reported alongside all channels through Gorilla Reports.

The Full Picture

What Our ChatGPT Optimization Strategy Covers

Every factor that influences whether ChatGPT cites and recommends your business.

Prompt Testing

Systematic testing across GPT-4o, GPT-4, and SearchGPT with business-relevant queries.

Citation Tracking

Frequency, sentiment, and accuracy of ChatGPT mentions monitored weekly.

Competitor Analysis

Who ChatGPT recommends instead of you and what's driving those citations.

GPTBot Monitoring

Crawler behavior tracked, pages visited, frequency, and content focus.

Robots.txt Configuration

Ensuring GPTBot has access to the right content on your site.

LLM-Ready Content

Q&A formats, citable statements, and comprehensive topic coverage.

Schema Markup

Organization, Product, FAQ, and Review structured data for machine parsing.

Authority Placements

Editorial coverage on publications ChatGPT actively references.

Brand Mention Building

Consistent mentions across trusted sources reinforcing authority signals.

SearchGPT Optimization

SEO alignment ensuring real-time search results favor your pages.

E-E-A-T Signals

Expertise, experience, authority, and trust signals ChatGPT evaluates.

Accuracy Monitoring

Ensuring ChatGPT represents your business accurately and correcting misinformation.

Backlink Authority

Links from publications in ChatGPT's training and retrieval data.

Review Signals

Review volume and sentiment across platforms ChatGPT references.

Continuous Re-Testing

Weekly prompt testing tracking how ChatGPT responses evolve over time.

Gorilla Reports

AI visibility metrics alongside SEO, PPC, and all channels in one dashboard.

Going Deeper

ChatGPT Optimization Under the Microscope

How ChatGPT decides what to recommend, and how to influence those decisions.

How ChatGPT Decides What to Recommend

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ChatGPT doesn't rank websites like Google. It synthesises information from its training data and (via SearchGPT) real-time web results to generate the most helpful, authoritative answer. The factors that influence citations include: frequency of brand mentions across authoritative sources, consistency of information about your business across the web, depth and comprehensiveness of your content, quality of structured data, and the overall authority profile of your website and third-party mentions. It's not about gaming a single signal, it's about building genuine authority that the model recognizes across multiple inputs.

SearchGPT, Where SEO and ChatGPT Converge

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SearchGPT allows ChatGPT to browse the web in real-time and cite current sources. This means your SEO performance directly impacts your ChatGPT visibility. Pages that rank well in Google are more likely to be found and cited by SearchGPT. Content that's well-structured with clear answers, proper schema markup, and strong authority signals gets preferential treatment. This is why we always recommend running ChatGPT optimization alongside your SEO strategy, improvements to one directly benefit the other. The businesses dominating both channels are those investing in performance marketing that treats search and AI as one unified visibility strategy.

GPTBot, Understanding OpenAI's Crawler

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GPTBot is OpenAI's web crawler that visits your site to ingest content for ChatGPT's knowledge base. Many websites unknowingly block GPTBot in their robots.txt, meaning ChatGPT literally can't see their content. We check your robots.txt configuration, ensure GPTBot has access to your most important pages, and monitor its crawl behavior through server log analysis. Our Crawler Intelligence tool tracks which pages GPTBot visits, how frequently, and whether it's encountering any access issues. If GPTBot isn't crawling your site, ChatGPT can't cite you, it's that simple. We fix the technical barriers first, then optimize the content GPTBot finds.

ChatGPT vs Google, Why You Need Both

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ChatGPT isn't replacing Google, it's creating a parallel discovery channel. Some users search Google. Some ask ChatGPT. Increasingly, many do both. Google's own AI Overviews blend traditional search with AI-generated answers. The businesses that win are visible across all of these touchpoints. Our approach treats ChatGPT optimization, Gemini optimization, Claude optimization, and traditional SEO as one interconnected strategy, because the signals that drive visibility in each channel are fundamentally the same: authority, comprehensiveness, accuracy, and trust.