How to rank in ChatGPT.
The SearchGPT surface in 2026 weights brand mentions on third-party authority sites and clean direct-answer formatting more than it weights your meta tags.
ChatGPT search composes its answers from a hybrid of training data, real-time web retrieval through the SearchGPT index, and the user's contextual session history. The signals that consistently produce citations: a brand mentioned across a diverse set of third-party authority sites, primary-source content with direct-answer paragraphs under H2 question headings, and structured data that disambiguates the entity. The signals that do not move it as much as agencies suggest: meta descriptions, keyword density, traditional internal linking. The longform with our 2026 ChatGPT citation rubric ships in May 2026.
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