Just like we can submit our website to google to get indexed, is there is a way I can submit my site to get verified by open ai/ chatgpt and be visible to it?
How have you been able to make your site more visible to gpt and other llms.
Also, what sites does open ai heavily refer to as high authority sources to answer questions of different intents (Navigational, Informational, Commercial, Transactional)
Welcome to the community!
OpenAI has a web crawler, and if it discovers your site it will index it. There is no way to request manual inclusion in ChatGPT’s index.
Be sure not to block the OAI-SearchBot in your robots.txt!
You can find more details here:
https://help.openai.com/en/articles/12627856-publishers-and-developers-faq
Fortunately, it happens automatically.
If you don’t see your website in ChatGPT’s replies, it’s just not “famous” enogh yet. You might want to optimize certain things:
First of all, focus on off-site activities: earn quality detailed reviews, get mentioned and cited on forums, discussion platforms, etc. Also, you want a solid social media strategy - this is another chance for you to describe your brand and engage discussions around it as a bonus.
For on-site activities, it’s quite similar to SEO effort: build DR, make content with a shift to short-forms, write blog’s listicles (AI loves making lists as you probably noticed). Use Ahrefs Brand Radar or AI visibility tools like Beamtrace to find out your current score and get prompts to implement on your website. See what you can improve in structure and schemas.
So, you are most likely indexed, but need to work a lot to be regularly cited.