ChatGPT query research

If you want to get cited in ChatGPT, like these sources, you want to get into here. This is what you have to do.

These are the top ranking factors for getting cited in AI. The most important is that you have content that is relevant to the searches that ChatGPT is doing.

Pretty much the top spots just say what I just told you. See what ChatGPT is searching.

Copy the part of your ChatGPT URL that comes after forward slash C, right? Click Inspect, go to Network, paste in what you just copied, refresh the page, click the orange brackets with what you just copied.

Go to Response, search Response for the word queries. Right here, you see what ChatGPT actually searched.

Now that you can see ChatGPT searches, you can make content that is relevant to it. The importance of relevance to what ChatGPT is searching is so, so important.

It is literally the top ranking factors in your content. Put your answer near the top.

This is something a lot of people don't know to do. It's just best for all content.

This is from the SEO subreddit: how adding TLDR boosted my conversions by 33%...

These are the pages that did link out. Cite your sources works for AI too.

Freshness of content doesn't actually matter as much as people think. If you heard people telling you to use an L, s dot TXT, this is the least important factor on this list.

You also don't need to think too much about schema markup. Structured data is way down on this list.

The most important things to do: have content that is relevant to what ChatGPT is searching. Have clear content with answers at the top when possible.

Cite your sources. Credit to Cyrus Shepherd here.

You can get this from Zippy. AI Citation Ranking factors analysis.

Has the Empire State Building made any changes to its observation deck or ticketing setup? People don't know this, but when you do prompts, ChatGPT searches the web and you can literally see what it searched with.

Often times what it searches with is different from the prompt that you put in. Copy the part of your ChatGPT URL that comes after forward slash C, right click inspect, go to network, paste in what you copied, refresh the page, click the orange brackets with what you copied, go to response, search this for queries, then you can see what ChatGPT searched.

My prompt was, has the Empire State Building made any changes to its observation deck experience or ticketing setup? ChatGPT searched Empire State Building observation deck changes 2025 ticketing.

If you do enough prompts around your brand, you can see the language that ChatGPT will search with. When gathering information about you, use this language in your page titles, in your URL slugs, in the h2s on your pages...

And get shown more in ChatGPT? Uh, yeah.

Go to ChatGPT, put in your prompt fashion trends for this winter. Right click inspect.

Go to network in the URL, copy what comes after forward, slash C. Paste it in the filter.

Now refresh the page. Click the orange brackets with the code you just put in.

Go to response. Search this code for the word queries.

Now you can see what ChatGPT searched the web with. Use the language that ChatGPT is searching with.

Put it in your content as H2 sections. Or create entirely new pieces of content for exactly what ChatGPT is searching.

That is how you get shown more in ChatGPT. And to learn my exact method of doing SEO that gets paying customers, go to compactkeywords.com.