Self case study
Can this service become discoverable for its target question?
Technical launch verified; ChatGPT discovery not yet measured. The public site launched on September 23, 2026. A live check of this homepage returned HTTP 200, found no noindex directive, and found that the root robots file allows OAI-SearchBot for this path. GPTBot remains blocked. These observations do not establish access from OpenAI’s network or inclusion in ChatGPT.
Question under study
“how do i get my business to show up in chatgpt answers”
What changed
Before launch, the domain’s robots file disallowed all paths. We published this public utility and guide under /answers/ and allowed crawling of that section. The existing site’s restrictions remain in place. The page title, description, canonical URL, and readable content were verified in the live response.
Planned discovery evidence
The experiment will keep branded URL-fetch tests separate from unbranded discovery searches. It will record timestamps, search conditions, complete responses and citations, including absent mentions. Later observations will distinguish a mention from a citation, referral, or purchase.
- Technical public-page check
- Verified September 23, 2026
- Unbranded ChatGPT search baseline
- Not yet measured
- Observed ChatGPT citations
- Not yet measured
- Referrals or purchases
- Not yet measured