Robots policy
Disallow: / Page checks
/garden-sets/all-weather Needs attention /garden-sets In order /lounge-sets/balcony Needs attention An allowing robots policy does not guarantee inclusion or citation in AI answers.
ChatGPT can search the web for a question and then shows its sources. We work on the pages it can find and check by hand each month what ChatGPT answers.
What you get
For current or specific questions, ChatGPT can search the web. It turns your question into one or more search queries and shows the sources with the answer. The conversation’s context plays a part.1
OAI-SearchBot fetches pages for ChatGPT’s search feature. Block that bot in robots.txt and ChatGPT will not show your site in its search answers. A change can take about a day to apply.2
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /GPTBot collects content for training models. Blocking it has no effect on OAI-SearchBot, so you can refuse training and still appear in search answers.2
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /ChatGPT-User fetches a page when someone asks for it in a conversation. According to OpenAI, robots rules may not apply then, and that bot does not decide whether you can appear in search answers.2
Atlas reads your robots.txt for each OpenAI crawler and keeps search, training and user requests apart. Then Atlas checks the pages ChatGPT could cite.
Meet AtlasWe collect the questions customers ask ChatGPT before they choose. We store each question with a version, so every check asks the same thing.
We write or improve the pages that answer those questions, with sizes, materials, prices and terms that are correct.
Atlas checks whether OAI-SearchBot may read your pages and whether the content is in the HTML. Your specialist fixes what needs attention.
Each month we ask ChatGPT the agreed questions and store the answer, the sources and the moment. That way you see what changes.
ChatGPT is included in every plan. Once a month we record by hand what ChatGPT answers to your questions, with the sources we saw.
Compare the plans| Plan | ChatGPT | Checked by hand | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rise | Included | 10 answers a month | €549 a month |
| Scale | Included | 25 answers a month | €949 a month |
| Lead | Included | 50 answers a month | €1,649 a month |
Excl. VAT, on a three-month term.
Answers to the questions business owners ask us most.
No. OpenAI decides what ChatGPT answers, and that varies by question, conversation and moment. We work on the content and technical set-up ChatGPT can use, such as access for OAI-SearchBot and pages that answer customer questions clearly, and record by hand what ChatGPT answers to the agreed questions.
No. According to OpenAI, GPTBot is the crawler for training models. For ChatGPT’s search answers, OpenAI uses OAI-SearchBot. They are two separate rules in your robots.txt: you can block GPTBot and allow OAI-SearchBot, so you can still appear in ChatGPT search answers without contributing to training.
No. We ask the agreed questions by hand, once a month, in the AI assistants included in your plan. We store every answer with the exact question, the source links and the time. ChatGPT is included in every plan, with 10, 25 or 50 questions a month. Automated or daily tracking is not part of the plans.
ChatGPT takes the conversation, your settings, your location and the moment into account, and fetches sources again for each search question. That is why we record the exact question, the environment and the time of every check. One answer does not show how ChatGPT always presents your business; repeated checks with the same questions do.
Largely not. Pages that are findable, technically readable and answer a question clearly help in Google and in ChatGPT. What is specific to ChatGPT is that OAI-SearchBot must be allowed to fetch your pages, and that you measure with questions the way customers ask an assistant. We cover both in the same plan.
Outseen works on that for online shops, with a standard approach for Shopify and WooCommerce. We make sure OAI-SearchBot may fetch your pages, create pages that answer customer questions clearly and record by hand every month what ChatGPT answers to the agreed questions. We do not guarantee a mention: OpenAI decides what ChatGPT shows.