# How to Get Your Business Cited by ChatGPT

> Learn how AI search engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity decide which businesses to recommend by name.

Canonical page: https://1teamlabs.com/blog/get-your-business-cited-by-chatgpt/
Author: mohit.mohanwork
Published: 2026-09-17
Categories: AI Search Visibility
Tags: AI search, ChatGPT

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Buyers now ask ChatGPT before they Google. If your content isn’t structured for AI extraction, a competitor gets named instead of you.

## Why Ranking and Citation Diverge

Ranking rewards a page. Citation rewards a claim a model can repeat without hedging.

- Unambiguous positioning statements, not adjectives
- Named service pages a model can map to a question
- Third-party mentions in places models actually read

> If a model can’t summarise what you do in one sentence, it will summarise a competitor instead.

## What to Do This Month

Ask five buyer questions to three models and write down who gets named. Read the full approach on the [LLM Citation AI Worker](https://1teamlabs.com/llm-citation-optimization/) page, or see [Perplexity](https://www.perplexity.ai/) for yourself.