ChatGPT Not Indexing Site. Help

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1. Here is the quick way to fix chatgpt not indexing your site’s pages. Allow the following AI bots/crawler via your robots.txt file.

   • OAI-SearchBot – The main crawler used specifically for indexing websites for ChatGPT Search.

   • ChatGPT-User – Handles real-time user queries by fetching live data to improve accuracy.

   Also if you are using Cloudflare, then allow AI bot crawlers. By default Cloudflare now block AI crawlers and so they cannot crawl and index your pages, thus you loose site visitors. 

2. Follow this steps that will help you get your site indexed in chatgpt search.

   • Write short content which helps to answer the user’s search intent.
   • Use natural language and a Conversational Tone. Chatgpt is built on natural language. So if your content sounds, AI-generated, robotic, or overloaded with jargon, it likely won’t connect or be cited in chatgpt search.
   • Use traditional SEO like adding Title, Meta Tags, Heading H1, to your website pages.
   • Add right schema markup either manually or using plugin in wordpress.

4. Check you web hosting provider. Many web hosting companies now-a-days have started blocking AI bots including chatgpt at server-level to save CPU spikes and bandwidth wasteage. But it is affecting the crawling and indexing of sites by AI bots like chatgpt. Web hosts don’t tell you this and site owner keeps wondering that why their content is not ranking in chatgpt. You can switch to AI-ready and friendly web host like The-Online.com which does not block any AI bots. My site after transferring from bluehost to The Online was able to get indexed in chatgpt and even in perplexity!