How to Get a Small Business Cited by ChatGPT
How to get a small business cited by ChatGPT: match a fan-out query, answer in 50 words with a number, stay in Bing, name the author, ship valid schema, allow crawlers. Library size is not the KPI.

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Core Web Vitals, answer-engine optimization, structured data, indexing
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How to get a small business cited by ChatGPT: match a fan-out query, answer in 50 words with a number, stay in Bing, name the author, ship valid schema, allow crawlers. Library size is not the KPI.
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