Get cited more often
Measurement tells you where you lose; these guides cover the moves that actually change the number — with the caveat, stated honestly throughout, that nobody controls what a model says. If you have not established a baseline yet, start with Share of AI Answer instead, because AEO work without measurement cannot be evaluated.
- How to get cited by ChatGPTChatGPT cites what its web search retrieves: comparison articles, review directories, community threads and clear product pages. The moves that work, and why.
- How to increase your AI visibilityA measurement-first AEO playbook: find the questions you lose, fix the sources engines actually cite, sequence the work by payback time, and verify the trend moved.
- AI SEO vs traditional SEOWhat carries over from classic SEO to AI answer visibility, what genuinely changes, and how to split effort between rankings and citations without duplicating work.
What is the shortest path to more AI citations?
Find the domains that win the prompts you lose, and get yourself onto them. That single move — working the gap list in frequency order — outperforms almost everything else, because each of those domains is a source an engine already trusts for your exact question, and presence there is usually far cheaper than outranking anyone.
The rest is sequencing: directory listings and profile fixes first because they are measured in hours, comparison content second because it is measured in weeks, and community and PR work last because it is measured in months. The full loop is in how to increase your AI visibility.
How do you know whether any of it worked?
Only from your own tracked prompt set, read over weeks. Grounded answers vary run to run, so a good answer the morning after a change is not evidence, and a bad one is not a setback. Change one thing, hold the prompt set constant, and read the trend for two to four weeks.
Perplexity is the fastest engine to reflect a content change and makes a useful canary; Gemini moves most on classic SEO improvements. The per-engine detail is in the track guides.
Frequently asked questions
How long does it take to improve AI visibility?
New and updated pages can appear in grounded answers within days of being indexed, but citation behaviour is probabilistic, so read the trend over two to four weeks per change rather than checking the next morning. Directory and listing fixes tend to show up fastest; content and community work take longer.
Can I pay to be recommended by ChatGPT?
No. There is no advertising placement inside AI assistant answers of this kind, and no way to buy a citation. What you can do is be present, current and quotable in the third-party sources engines already retrieve for your category, then measure whether your citation rate moves.