Summary of The FASTEST Way to Get Your Site Indexed in Chat GPT Search
The video provides a tutorial on how to get your website indexed by the new ChatGPT Search, based on official guidance from OpenAI. Key points include:
- OpenAI's Recommendation: Update your website’s
robots.txt
file to allow the OpenAI Search Bot to crawl your site. This is necessary for your site to be indexed in ChatGPT Search. - User Agent Strings: OpenAI provides specific user agent strings for their bots. The primary one for ChatGPT Search is the "oi Search bot," which should be explicitly allowed in the
robots.txt
file. - Privacy Controls: Website owners can disallow other OpenAI bots from using their content for training purposes by blocking them in the
robots.txt
file. - Creating/Editing robots.txt:
- The
robots.txt
file is a simple text file placed at the root of your website directory. - It can be created or edited using any text editor.
- For WordPress users, SEO plugins like Yoast provide an easy interface to edit the
robots.txt
file directly from the backend.
- The
- Step-by-Step Guide Using Yoast SEO Plugin:
- Navigate to Yoast > Tools > File Editor in WordPress.
- Create or edit the existing
robots.txt
file. - Add the OpenAI Search Bot user agent string with an “Allow” directive.
- Save changes.
- Indexing Delay: OpenAI notes it may take up to 24 hours after updating the
robots.txt
file for their systems to recognize the changes. - Future Changes: The process and documentation may evolve as ChatGPT Search is still very new.
- Additional Resources: The speaker references another video explaining how to use ChatGPT Search and OpenAI for research and statistics.
Main Speaker/Source:
- The tutorial is presented by a content creator familiar with SEO and WordPress, referencing official OpenAI documentation.
Notable Quotes
— 00:49 — « They've seem to just kind of taken everything and swallow up everything and use it in their training models. »
— 00:58 — « If you have content that you do not want open AI to be able to use in their training models you could also use these other Bots and change it to the disallow function instead of your robots.txt file. »
— 03:16 — « Search GPT is really really new it just barely released so I'm sure the documentation will update and who knows if really adding this makes any sort of difference but you might as well do what they tell you to do if you're interested in having your content potentially show up in their search GPT. »
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Technology