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7/23/2026
The original title is about getting articles cited by ChatGPT. Let me rewrite it to be punchy, specific, and under 12 words.

The original title is about getting articles cited by ChatGPT. Let me rewrite it to be punchy, specific, and under 12 words.

Original: What actually got our articles cited by ChatGPT (and what didn't)

Short summary

A practical deep-dive into getting content cited by AI answer engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity. Key findings: ensure AI crawlers can fetch your pages (fix robots.txt gotchas), add an llms.txt file, write passage-sized chunks under question-style headings, and emit clean JSON-LD without markdown syntax. The author fixed a dead table of contents caused by legacy anchor tags and re-rendered 1,600 articles.

  • Robots.txt named user-agent groups replace, not merge with, the * group — a common gotcha blocking AI citations
  • Answer engines cite passages not pages: use question-style headings, answer in first two sentences, keep chunks ~500 tokens
  • Add llms.txt, fix heading IDs for fragment addressing, and strip markdown from FAQ schema text

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