Most people find this page after asking an AI how to get found by an AI. Every post below starts with the question, answers it in the first paragraph, and then shows the work.
Usually one of six things. Either you blocked the crawler that decides citations, you are absent from the index that engine retrieves from, you have no page written for the question your customer actually asked, nobody else on the web mentions you, your name is inconsistent enough that the engine cannot connect its mentions of you, or nothing is wrong at all and the category simply has no established leader yet. Check them in that order — the first two are one-line fixes.
There is no ChatGPT submission form. Getting listed means letting OAI-SearchBot crawl you, being indexed in Bing, and writing pages that answer a question completely. Here is the whole mechanism.
Google says there are no special requirements to appear in AI Overviews beyond being indexed. Real leverage is query fan-out and the sub-questions you never see.
Perplexity cites pages that rank in conventional search and answer the question directly. Allow PerplexityBot, then test your own queries to see who wins.
Claude's web search runs on Brave, not Google. Get indexed in Brave, then set Anthropic's three robots.txt tokens — ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User.
Copilot has no crawler of its own. Microsoft grounds its public-web answers in Bing, so getting found in Copilot is the same job as being properly indexed in Bing.
Fifteen AI answer engines run on about four indexes. Here is the map of which engine uses whose retrieval layer, what the share numbers say, and where to work.
Every AI crawler does one of three jobs: retrieval, training, or user-triggered fetch. Allow retrieval always, decide training once, and know the limits.
No. In a May 2026 Ahrefs study of 137,210 domains, 97% of published llms.txt files were never requested once. Here is how to check a claim like this yourself.
Yes, but not for the reason you were told. Schema still earns rich results and is cheap ground truth — but no public evidence shows it buys AI citations.
Claim Google Business Profile, Bing Places and Apple Business Connect, keep your details identical everywhere, and answer the questions customers actually ask.
SEO wins a ranked position, AEO wins the extracted answer, GEO wins the recommendation. The craft underneath is mostly shared. Three things genuinely differ.
GetFound3 scores your site across SEO, AEO, and GEO, then turns every finding into a tracked action with an owner, a due date, and a verifiable completion trail.