How to Get Free Traffic from ChatGPT: The Complete Playbook
Found an excellent post on AI coding lessons - here's my summary with a few additions from my own 8 months building with Lovable AI traffic has grown 1,367% since January 2024. ChatGPT now sends more referral traffic than Reddit and LinkedIn combined. Here's how to capture your share. 1. Technical Setup (Do This First) Unblock AI Crawlers: Disable AI blocking in Cloudflare, Akamai, Fastly, Imperva, Wordfence, DataDome Whitelist: GPTBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot Kill JavaScript challenges for verified bots Serve critical content in server-side HTML (GPTBot and PerplexityBot ignore JavaScript) Robots.txt Permission: text User-agent: GPTBot Allow: / User-agent: PerplexityBot Allow: / User-agent: ClaudeBot Allow: / Essential Files: Add JSON-LD schema to articles/FAQs (Copilot reads it verbatim) Include visible "Updated YYYY-MM-DD" timestamps Create /llms.txt with your top 50-100 URLs + one-line summaries Ping IndexNow after every publish - Bing/Copilot will re-crawl within minutes 2. Content That Gets Cited Answer-First Structure: 40-70 word answer box under your H1 (prime feature-snippet fodder) Expert quotes in each section (+41% citation lift) Fresh dated stats (+30% citation boost) Keep paragraphs ā¤300 tokens, break with H2 every ~250 words Use clear, standalone subheadings High-Performance Content Types: Comparison guides ("what's the best...") Step-by-step tutorials with numbered processes FAQ sections with schema markup Data-driven insights with specific statistics Content Strategy Details: Go easy on hard-sell CTAs in paragraphs you want quoted Seed Reddit threads AND Stack Overflow discussions Keep each fact/stat within single vector chunks 3. Platform-Specific Strategies ChatGPT: Rank high on Bing, use IndexNow for fast re-crawling, neutral Wikipedia-style tone Perplexity: Post authoritative Reddit responses (47% of answers cite Reddit), avoid JavaScript-heavy pages, pure HTML only Google AI: Traditional SEO + structured data, quarterly freshness updates