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How to get your online shop recommended by ChatGPT
ChatGPT recommends shops it can find, understand and trust. That means consistent product facts, pages it can read, a presence on the lists and review sites it quotes, and being in the search indexes it draws on. Here are the steps, in order.
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Seven steps
- Check where you stand. Ask ChatGPT, Gemini and Google "what are the best [your product] under [price] in the UK?" three times each. Write down who is named and what is said about you.
- Fix wrong facts at the source. If an assistant quotes an old price or says you are out of stock, find where it read that (often a product feed or marketplace listing) and correct it there.
- Make every product page readable. Price, stock, delivery, returns and key specs as plain text, not inside images or PDFs.
- Send a product feed to Google Merchant Center. Google's AI and shopping results read from it.
- Get your site into Bing as well as Google. ChatGPT's search draws on Bing's index, so register with Bing Webmaster Tools and submit your sitemap.
- Get onto the lists AI quotes. Find the "best [product]" articles and review sites the assistants cite for your category and pitch the writers honestly.
- Measure, then repeat. Ask the same questions every week. Change one thing at a time so you know what worked.
What not to do
- No fake reviews or made-up star ratings. They break the rules of every review site and search engine.
- No hidden text or a different page for robots than for people. Search engines treat it as cheating.
- No copying the same page onto several web addresses.
Questions shop owners ask
How do I get my shop recommended by ChatGPT?
Make your product facts consistent everywhere, keep product pages readable as plain text, send a product feed to Google Merchant Center, register with Bing Webmaster Tools, and get onto the 'best of' lists and review sites ChatGPT quotes for your category.
How long does it take for ChatGPT to recommend a shop?
It varies. Fixing a wrong fact can show up within days once the source is corrected and re-read; getting onto lists and review sites usually takes weeks. Check the same questions weekly to see movement.
Can I pay to be recommended by ChatGPT?
You cannot pay to appear in ChatGPT's own recommendations; any ads are shown and labelled separately. Being recommended comes from the facts and sources the assistant can find about you.
How do I check if ChatGPT recommends my shop?
Ask it the questions your customers ask, three times each, and note who it names. Tools such as BrightLocal, Peec AI and SurgeLab automate this.
Rather have it done for you? SurgeLab's AI team works through these steps every week and shows you the orders AI sends.
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