Understanding ChatGPT Search indexing for digital visibility

ChatGPT Search combines Bing's search index with proprietary OpenAI technologies. The indexing process requires understanding the operation of three different web crawlers that perform different functions. The first, OAI-SearchBot, is the main web crawler for searching, the second, ChatGPT-User, processes user queries in real time, and the third, GPTBot, manages the training of the AI ​​model.

"Proper indexing starts with your robots.txt configuration. Your robots.txt should allow OAI-SearchBot crawling, but keep separate permissions for different OpenAI crawlers."

Ensuring the visibility of your site in ChatGPT Search requires not only the correct configuration of robots.txt, but also taking into account a number of other factors. For example, content freshness affects visibility, pages behind paywalls can still be cited, and URLs that return 404 errors can still appear in citations. 🚀

• 📌 ChatGPT Search combines the Bing search index with proprietary OpenAI technologies.
• 📌 Correct indexing starts with robots.txt configuration.
• 📌 Factors that affect visibility include content freshness and page accessibility.