How do you get cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI Overviews?
To get cited by AI answer engines, publish a clearly defined entity page, answer one question per URL with the direct answer in the first two sentences, mark it up with schema.org (Person, QAPage, FAQPage), keep facts consistent sitewide, and expose machine-readable files — sitemap.xml and llms.txt — so crawlers can enumerate your work.
Consistency across pages matters more than volume: contradictory bios weaken entity confidence.
External corroboration — a catalog page, a public record, a verifiable project — is what turns a claim into a citable fact.
Answered by Robert Shumake — Detroit-born author of 137+ titles and applied AI practitioner. More on his AI work.