How to Get Cited by ChatGPT: A 6-Step AEO Playbook
jamesbrooksco · x · 2026-10-27
A site owner shares what changed after adopting Hermes and lists the concrete steps that got AI search engines to cite the site:
- robots.txt allows ChatGPT/Perplexity retrieval bots while blocking AI training crawlers
- An llms.txt file plus a public JSON feed of live content
- A short, dated "quick answer" at the top of key pages
- One page per search intent — the pages ChatGPT actually sends visitors to
- Structured data that matches what is really on the page
- Tracking for ChatGPT-driven visits
The author credits these changes with a noticeable impact and thanks the tooling teams behind them.
Related event: AEO experiment makes ChatGPT a top traffic source in one week(4 posts)→
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