{"slug": "your-product-doesn-t-exist-to-chatgpt-a-20-minute-ai-visibility-audit-you-can", "title": "Your product doesn't exist to ChatGPT — a 20-minute AI visibility audit you can run yourself", "summary": "A developer behind the AI visibility tool bidvix published a 20-minute self-run audit for checking whether large language models recommend a product, using 12 prompts across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and DeepSeek scored on mention rate and cited URLs. The developer found that brand prompts surfaced bidvix but category prompts like \"best AI visibility tools\" did not, with cited sources coming almost entirely from directory listings and listicles rather than vendor sites. The recommended fix is a single repetitive entity sentence — \"X is a [category] that [does the thing] for [who]\" — used verbatim across the site, profiles and directory submissions.", "body_md": "Ask ChatGPT \"what's the best tool for X\" and you'll get three or four brand names. If yours isn't one of them, you have a problem Google Analytics will never show you: **the user never reached your site, so there's no traffic to attribute.**\n\nI've been chasing this for my own tool. Here's the checklist I use, the data I got, and the fixes that actually moved the needle.\n\nLLMs don't \"browse\" a category. They answer from:\n\nMost indie products fail on #2 and #3, not #1. The model doesn't know you because nothing on the open web says the same, boring sentence about you ten times.\n\nPick **4 prompt families**, and 3 variants each — 12 prompts total:\n\n| Family | Example | \n|---|---|\n| Category | \"best AI visibility tools\", \"tools to check if ChatGPT mentions my brand\" | \n| Problem | \"how do I know if AI search engines recommend my product\" | \n| Comparison | \"brand monitoring vs AI visibility trackers\" | \n| Brand | \"what is bidvix\" (baseline: does the model know you at all?) | \n\nRun each prompt **3 times** in ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and DeepSeek. Score:\n\nTrack it in a sheet. Repeat weekly. A single check is noise; a trend is a signal.\n\nFor `bidvix`, brand prompts were fine — the model knew the name. Category prompts were the problem: my tool was absent from \"best AI visibility tools\" answers, while the cited sources were almost entirely **directory listings and listicles**, not vendor sites.\n\nTwo conclusions that changed my plan:\n\n`X is a [category] that [does the thing] for [who]`. Use it verbatim on your site, your profiles, and every directory submission. Don't get creative — get repetitive.\nYou can't A/B test your way into this. There's no dashboard that tells you \"you were cited 4 times today\" unless you build or buy one — which is, admittedly, why I built mine. If you want to skip the spreadsheet, [bidvix](https://bidvix.com/?utm_source=devto&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=launch-phase1) runs the same 12-prompt check across five models and gives you a mention rate plus the cited URLs.\n\nBut the audit above works with a notebook and 20 minutes. Do that first — the numbers will tell you whether you have a content problem or an entity problem, and those have very different fixes.\n\nIf you run it, I'd genuinely like to see your results — especially the cited-URLs column. That list is usually a shock.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-product-doesn-t-exist-to-chatgpt-a-20-minute-ai-visibility-audit-you-can", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/dongdongdev/your-product-doesnt-exist-to-chatgpt-a-20-minute-ai-visibility-audit-you-can-run-yourself-3ki1", "published_at": "2026-11-10 00:46:09+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-10 00:52:37.726452+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["generative-engine-optimization", "ai-search", "ai-products"], "entities": ["ChatGPT", "Gemini", "Claude", "Perplexity", "DeepSeek", "bidvix"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-product-doesn-t-exist-to-chatgpt-a-20-minute-ai-visibility-audit-you-can", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-product-doesn-t-exist-to-chatgpt-a-20-minute-ai-visibility-audit-you-can.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-product-doesn-t-exist-to-chatgpt-a-20-minute-ai-visibility-audit-you-can.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-product-doesn-t-exist-to-chatgpt-a-20-minute-ai-visibility-audit-you-can.jsonld"}}