How does a local business get recommended by ChatGPT?
ChatGPT and Google's AI answers recommend businesses they can find and confirm: a site that states plainly what you do and where, a Google Business Profile that matches it, and reviews and listings elsewhere that say the same thing.
How do I get my business to show up on ChatGPT?
Make the first sentence of your home page say what you are, what you do and which town you serve, in words a stranger could repeat. Put the same sentence in your page description and your Google Business Profile. AI answers quote what is stated plainly and repeated across sources.
How do I show up in Google AI Overviews?
The same way you show up in Google: a page that answers the question directly, near the top, on a site Google already trusts for your area. There is no separate form to submit.
How do I check whether ChatGPT recommends my business?
Ask it the question your customers ask, with your town in it, from a browser where you are signed out. Try it a few ways and write down who it names. That list is your real competition in AI answers.
Does this need special code or an llms.txt file?
It helps a little and it is cheap, but it is not the driver. The visible first sentence on your pages matters more than any file a visitor never sees. JKCA puts both on the sites it builds.