Studio Raine, with OpenAI's and Google's own pages. updated
how to get your business recommended by ChatGPT.
there is no form, no fee and no list to get on. ChatGPT search runs searches of its own and cites the pages it finds, so a business gets recommended by being the clearest page on the web for what it does and where, and by letting OpenAI's search crawler read it. here is what OpenAI's and Google's own pages say, and the steps in order. Studio Raine does this for the music industry only.
the steps, in order.
let OAI-SearchBot in
OpenAI's crawler page says OAI-SearchBot is used to surface websites in ChatGPT's search features, that it recommends allowing it in robots.txt, and that sites opted out of it will not be shown in ChatGPT search answers, though they can still appear as navigational links. it also says ChatGPT-User is not used to decide whether content may appear in search, and that GPTBot is about training, not search. so the first check is your robots.txt, and OpenAI says a change there can take about a day to take effect.
write the page for the search ChatGPT will run, not the question you were asked
OpenAI's web search guide says the model sends the query to the web search tool, which answers from the top results, and that a reasoning model can run several searches and decide whether to keep searching. a buyer's question becomes searches, so your page has to be the clear answer to a search: what you do, for whom, where, in the words the buyer uses, in the title and the first paragraph.
put the city on the page
the same guide says a user's approximate location can be given as a country, a city and a region, and that the city and region are free text like Minneapolis and Minnesota. a business that serves a place says the place in plain text, on the page, not only in a map embed.
be indexed on Google with a snippet
Google's page on AI features says there are no additional requirements to appear in AI Overviews or AI Mode, no special structured data, and that a page must be indexed and eligible to be shown in Google Search with a snippet. the fundamentals that get a page found on Google are the ones that get it found by an AI tool.
say the important things in text
Google's examples of what still applies for AI features include making sure that important content is available in textual form. a price in an image, a service list in a PDF, a city in a logo: none of those is text a crawler reads.
make the structured data match the page
Google says to make sure structured data matches the visible text on the page, and that no new machine-readable file or AI text file is needed to appear in its AI features. markup states what the page already shows; it does not add anything.
one page per answer, titled for it
OpenAI's guide says a response includes inline citations for the URLs found in the search results, each with the URL, the title and the location of the cited source. a citation is a page and its title, so the page a buyer should be sent to needs to exist, on its own address, with its title in the buyer's words.
decide what not to show
Google's page says that to limit what is shown from your pages you can use nosnippet, data-nosnippet, max-snippet or noindex. the same controls that limit a snippet limit what its AI features can quote, so use them on purpose or not at all.
test it, and record the answer
ask ChatGPT the buyer's question in a temporary chat, several times, and write down who it names and which pages it cites. the answer changes from one ask to the next, so one run proves nothing and a dated record of several is the only honest measure. then change the pages the citations point at, and ask again.
what not to do.
- block OAI-SearchBot to stop training. OpenAI's page says training is GPTBot's job and search is OAI-SearchBot's; blocking the wrong one takes you out of ChatGPT search answers.
- add an AI text file or special markup and expect it to do anything. Google's page says none is needed to appear in its AI features.
- treat one answer as a result. OpenAI's own guide shows the search queries and the sources change with the model and the run.
or have it done.
Studio Raine does every step above for a music company, from the engines' own pages, and records the before and after: AI search for the music industry, $25,000 for one company, guaranteed. the studio works for record labels, publishers, management and touring companies and music-tech companies, and nobody outside music.
questions.
can you pay to be recommended by ChatGPT?
no. OpenAI's pages describe a crawler and a search tool, not a listing or an ad. what you can pay for is the work that makes your pages the clearest answer, which is what this guide lists.
how does ChatGPT decide which business to recommend?
its search tool runs searches and answers from the top results, citing the pages it used with their URL and title. OpenAI does not publish a ranking method. what its pages do say is that a site has to allow OAI-SearchBot, and that the searches can carry a city and a region.
do I need to be on Google to be recommended by ChatGPT?
Google's page says its own AI features need a page that is indexed and snippet-eligible on Google Search. the same fundamentals are what any search tool finds, so a page that is not indexed anywhere is not a candidate for any AI answer.
how long does it take?
OpenAI says a robots.txt change for search can take about a day to take effect. beyond that, no company publishes a timeframe for appearing in an AI answer, and anyone who promises one is guessing.
does this work for a record label?
yes, and it is the only industry Studio Raine does it for. the label version of the offer, with a real recorded answer, is at /ai-search: $25,000 for one company, guaranteed.
text us the company.
one message with the label or the company. we send back what ChatGPT says about it today, word for word.