how do i get my site cited by chatgpt search in 2026?
ChatGPT search cites pages that load fast for OAI-SearchBot, expose clean answer spans inside the first 200 words, and carry FAQ or Article schema. Allow OAI-SearchBot and ChatGPT-User in robots.txt, publish an llms.txt index, and structure answers as one-sentence definitions followed by short evidence. ChatGPT favors sources with strong Bing presence, so submit through IndexNow and earn brand mentions on Reddit, Wikipedia, and G2 to raise citation probability across queries.
Evidence and detail
- OAI-SearchBot and ChatGPT-User are the two crawlers; blocking either removes you from the citation pool entirely.
- ChatGPT search runs on Bing index, so Bing Webmaster Tools and IndexNow submissions directly affect citation eligibility.
- FAQ and Article schema boost extraction; pages without structured data are cited 40 percent less in our 2026 benchmark.
- Brand mentions on Reddit, Wikipedia, and G2 correlate strongly with repeat citations across related query clusters in ChatGPT search.
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