Does ChatGPT cite you?
Not a score someone modeled: we ask ChatGPT real questions, store the answers, and count who it cited. If the answer is no, the audit says no, with the sample behind it.
Free, no sign-up. One crawl of your public pages by our self-identifying bot. Nothing is written to your site.
We keep the anonymous result to build an industry benchmark. No personal data is collected, and your individual result is never published.
Nothing here chases you. No follow-up sequence, no “strategy session” booked on your behalf, and no email field on this form, so there is nothing we could send you even if we wanted to. You get the whole result, including every failure we find. If you want a human to read it with you, you have to come and ask for one, and that offer sells nothing.
How ChatGPT decides who gets cited
- ChatGPT answers many commercial questions with web search behind them, and those answers carry source links. Whether your site is among them is a measurable fact, not a vibe.
- OpenAI runs separate crawlers for separate jobs: GPTBot gathers training data, while its search feature fetches and cites live pages. Blocking one is not blocking the other, which is why we check your robots.txt rules per token instead of guessing.
- A site ChatGPT cannot read can still be talked about: ChatGPT can cite what OTHERS write about you. We measure both your own citations and who gets cited in your place.
What we measure on ChatGPT
We ask ChatGPT real buyer-shaped questions through its API with search enabled, record every answer verbatim, and count which domains it cited. Each number ships with its sample size, and every stored answer can be reopened.
ChatGPT citation sampling is measured on Pro and Agency. See plans
Measurement IntegrityVerified⌄
We measure your visibility. We never manufacture it. Each guarantee below is enforced in code, not just promised:
- Self-identifying crawler. Our crawler names itself (SEOAIO, seoaio.ai/bot) so you can exclude it from your analytics.
- No manufactured citations. A citation is counted only when the AI engine returns it. We never inject your URL to inflate a score.
- Elicited-probe method, disclosed. Answer Share is measured by asking engines a fixed, disclosed prompt set — never dressed up as organic traffic.
- Measured vs Modeled, always labeled. Every number is stamped measured, modeled, or mixed. We never show a single Measured number over a modeled part.
- Honest confidence bands. Answer Share ships with a 95% confidence interval (Wilson) and its sample size. A small sample shows a wide band, not false precision.
- No engagement manufacturing. We measure your visibility. We never pay to seed prompts or manufacture the metric we report.
ChatGPT visibility FAQ
Is ChatGPT SEO a real thing?
The honest version is: ChatGPT cites sources in search-backed answers, and whether it cites you is measurable. What is not real is any agency's promise to guarantee ChatGPT recommends you. Nobody controls the model. We measure where you stand; the action plan tells you what to fix on your own pages.
Does blocking GPTBot make me invisible in ChatGPT?
Not by itself. GPTBot is the training crawler; ChatGPT's live search uses a different fetcher. The free audit reads your robots.txt and reports exactly which OpenAI tokens you allow or block, so the answer for your site is a fact, not folklore.
How do you measure ChatGPT citations?
Real API calls with search enabled, buyer-shaped prompts, answers stored verbatim, cited domains extracted and counted. Every figure carries its sample size, and you can open the exact answers behind it.
Also measured: Perplexity · Google AI Overviews · Claude · Gemini (not yet)
One audit covers every engine we measure.
Free, no sign-up, and honest about what it could not measure. Run it and read the exact answers behind your numbers.