ai visibility · 10-minute self-check

Will ChatGPT recommend your business? Ten questions.

Answer ten questions and get a score out of 100, with the gaps listed in the order worth fixing.

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the short answer

How do I find out whether ChatGPT recommends my business?

Ask the assistants directly, using the words a customer would use, and record whether the business is named and which competitor is named instead. Then check the ten inputs those answers are built from: the Google Business Profile, listing consistency, review recency, schema markup, crawler access and how extractable the site's claims are.

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the ten points

Answer honestly. The number is for you.

Each answer is worth 10, 5 or 0. Mark "partly" when that is the truth.

01Google Business Profile, complete and verified

Claimed and verified, with the right primary category, every service, hours, service area and recent photos. Assistants lean on the same place data Google Maps uses.

02Name, address and phone identical everywhere

The same business name, address and phone on the site, Google, Apple Maps, Bing, Yelp, Facebook and trade directories.

03Reviews arriving steadily, not in one old pile

At least one new review in the last 30 days, with replies from the business. Recency beats volume.

04LocalBusiness and FAQPage schema on the site

Structured data saying what the business is, where, what it offers and what it charges, generated from what is visible on the page.

05AI crawlers allowed in robots.txt

GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot and ClaudeBot able to read the site. Security plugins and hosts often block them without telling you. Check yours in a few seconds.

06Content attributed to a named person

Pages signed by a real person with a role and credentials. For a clinic or a trade, the licensed practitioner's name is the strongest signal.

07Pages that answer questions in extractable form

Opening passages that name the business, the service and the town, so a model can quote them whole.

08One page per service, per area served

A separate page for each service and each town, so a model answering "who does X in Y" has a page about X in Y.

09The business exists off its own website

Association listings, licence registers, chamber of commerce, supplier locators and local press. Assistants corroborate across sources.

10Concrete facts published on the site

Price ranges, response times, service radius, licence numbers, years in business.

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The first three items are the core of our local SEO services. The rest is what answer engine optimization adds. Plans are on digital marketing pricing.

questions

Questions about AI visibility

Will ChatGPT recommend my business?
It can, if the models can read your site, your business facts agree across the web, and your pages say something specific enough to quote. No provider can guarantee inclusion.

How do I check if AI can see my website?
Open yourdomain.com/robots.txt and look for Disallow rules covering GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot or ClaudeBot. The crawler check on this site reads it for you.

What is an AskOtter Visibility Score?
A self-assessment out of 100 across ten inputs AI assistants read, ten points each. It scores the inputs only.

What should I fix first if my score is low?
The Google Business Profile, then listing consistency, then review recency. None of them needs a developer.

Does askotter charge extra for this work?
No. Answer engine optimization is in every plan: $99/mo self-managed and $600/mo managed.

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The free audit runs your customers' prompts across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot and Google AI Overviews, and shows who got named.

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