How to Get Recommended by ChatGPT
A practical guide for SaaS founders. No fluff, no guarantees — just the signals that matter and how to fix them.
Honest disclaimer first:
No tool can guarantee that ChatGPT will recommend your product. Anyone promising that is selling snake oil. What we CAN do is make your site maximally readable by AI crawlers and track whether you're being mentioned. That's what this guide covers.
The 5-Step Process
Run a Free AI-Readiness Scan
Before fixing anything, know where you stand. Our scanner checks all 8 signals server-side and gives specific fixes for each failure. Takes 10 seconds, no signup.
Scan now →Fix Your llms.txt (Biggest Impact)
This is the single highest-impact fix. Create a markdown file at yoursite.com/llms.txt telling AI models what you do, who it's for, key features, pricing URL, and docs links. Most sites don't have one — having it alone puts you ahead of 95% of competitors.
Structured data tells machines exactly what entity you are (SoftwareApplication, Organization) with machine-readable properties like name, description, offers, aggregateRating. Use Google's Structured Data Testing Tool to validate.
Clean Up Technical SEO Basics
These aren't new, but they still matter for AI readability: unique meta descriptions per page, single H1 tags, canonical URLs to prevent duplicate confusion, sitemap.xml for discovery, Open Graph tags for context.
Track Whether You're Being Mentioned
After making changes, periodically ask ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity about your category and see if you're named. This is what our paid tiers automate — daily probing across 5 AI engines with a 'share of AI voice' score. But you can also do it manually for free.
What NOT to Do
- Don't buy backlinks — they help Google but do nothing for LLM recommendations
- Don't trust tools that "guarantee" ChatGPT citations — impossible to guarantee
- Don't stuff keywords into llms.txt — models penalize obvious manipulation
- Don't ignore the free fixes and jump straight to paid tools