How do I rank in ChatGPT?
ChatGPT doesn’t have a ranking algorithm in the SEO sense. What it has are retrieval and citation patterns — and four levers that actually shift them.
// Answers
AI search,
answered honestly.
The questions every marketing lead, founder, and SEO asks once they realize ChatGPT is eating the funnel. Direct answers. No hedging, no jargon.
// Questions
Start here.
How does Perplexity decide which sources to cite?
Perplexity is the most citation-transparent engine in the market. Here’s what we’ve learned about its retrieval, ranking, and source-selection signals.
Why aren’t my pages cited by ChatGPT?
Five-step diagnostic for brands that suspect they’re invisible inside the answer. Most failures are mechanical, not creative.
How do I track when AI engines cite my brand?
Why Google Search Console can’t see it, why manual checking doesn’t scale, and what a real AI-citation tracking pipeline actually measures.
Do AI engines respect robots.txt?
Mostly yes, with caveats. Which named crawlers honor it, which don’t, and what blocking actually accomplishes once your content is already in the training data.
// Why this exists
Ahrefs and Semrush won’t save you here.
The questions on this page didn’t exist five years ago. The dashboards built to answer the last era’s questions can’t answer them now. So we wrote down what we’ve learned from tracking citations across every major engine — in the plainest English we could manage.