How do I get ChatGPT to recommend my business?

To get ChatGPT to recommend your business, make the web agree on who you are, what you do and where you work. That means a website that answers customers' questions in plain words, a complete Google Business Profile, a Bing Places listing and recent reviews. ChatGPT searches the web before it answers, and it names businesses it can confirm.

When ChatGPT looks something up, OpenAI says it may send the search to partners like Bing, then cites the pages it used. So the basics still count: show up in search, and be easy to describe. Name every service and every town on your website, post your hours and price ranges, claim your free Bing Places listing (Microsoft's Copilot answers from Bing too), keep your name, number and address identical everywhere, and ask every happy customer for a review that mentions the job and the town.

Check one technical thing too. OpenAI's search crawler is called OAI-SearchBot, and OpenAI says sites that block it won't show up in ChatGPT's search answers. If your website's robots.txt file blocks it, ask whoever runs your site to allow it. You can still block the crawler that trains its models (GPTBot) and stay in search.

It's worth doing now: 45% of people used AI tools like ChatGPT for local recommendations in 2026, up from 6% a year earlier, in BrightLocal's survey of 1,002 US adults.

Try it right now. Ask ChatGPT who the best carpet cleaner in your town is, then open the sources it cites. Those pages are what it trusts. If you're not on them, that list is your to-do list.

This is what we mean by AI search: we write your site so AI can quote it, keep every profile matching, and watch who AI recommends in your city. More on how AI picks a local business, GEO and how we get you into AI answers.

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