Agency publishes 10-point checklist for getting sites cited by ChatGPT
11/02/2026 — 11/02, 05:16·1 sources (all)·1 reports (all)
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- A website builder published a 10-point checklist for getting ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity to read and cite a site, based on its own scans…
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On 2026-11-02, website building provider WoodstoneStudio published a post titled 'Let ChatGPT Read Your Website: An AI Search Readiness Checklist' on DEV Community. It released a 10-item checklist meant to help websites get read and cited by ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity.
According to the post, the numbers come from WoodstoneStudio's own scans covering 100 well-known Turkish websites and 48 dental clinics in Izmir. The checklist walks through the 10 areas that the WoodstoneStudio site scan checks, along with the checks that matter most.
The post distinguishes between two kinds of crawlers: search-related crawlers that these tools use to fetch pages when answering questions, and crawlers used for training. It notes that in the scans, robots.txt usually did not allow the former through. The post also argues that people now ask ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity 'which dentist', 'which hotel' or 'which accountant' as often as they ask Google. When these tools answer, they read web pages with their own bots and cite the sources they trust most. If a site is not ready for that, someone else gets cited instead.
So far, this is the only published report on the checklist, and no follow-up disclosure about further scans or revisions has appeared.
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A web studio lays out ten checks that determine whether ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity can read and cite a site, based on its own scans of 100 well-known Turkish websites and 48 dental clinics in Izmir. It separates search crawlers that fetch pages while answering a question from training crawlers, and says robots.txt in its scans usually failed to admit the former.
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