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Almost instant traffic from ChatGPT
Posted by on January 22, 2026 at 8:28 pmI'm going to be a little vague, and I apologize for that, but I have an NDA. This is also not a show off post, but more of a sanity check.
I built some landing pages for a client that we set live last week(1/13). I tried some new hunches on AI optimization on them. Starting this Wednesday(1/21) the client is already getting leads that show the referrer was ChatGPT.
I'm sorry, but this seems crazy fast. Unexpectedly so. Niche and area are competitive. I've double checked the tagging and it's correct. Lead info is also accurate and qualified. So not spam submissions. Anybody else seeing results this fast from AI optimization?
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If you’re appearing in chat gpt, you haven’t optimised for ‘AI’, you’ve optimised for bing. If the back link profile is decent, you can get almost instantly indexed regardless of how competitive the niche is. I’d check to see if you’re ranking for related commercial key terms on bing.
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Anyone can rank in ChatGPT/Perplexity quickly/instantly
1. You can run an ad, listing, guest post/paragraph or mention on a page already ranking
2. You can target a low KD QFO Keyword
It took me 36 hours to go from not being mentioned in Grok in the Top 50 SEOs to saying it mentioned me because of the “overwhelming” evidence to support it.
LLMs are skin deep – where the skin is really thin.
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Based on the other commenter’s thoughts, try to cross-reference your ChatGPT traffic with Bing Webmaster Tools and check browser demographics in GA4. Maybe your audience is a Bing/desktop audience! That could be useful for optimization — like previewing in Edge and working on improving search appearance there. I almost did a project like this once but it fell through, so I think ppl would be interested in a case study. And that’s a lead gen magnet for you 🙂
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Volume would be my gut-check measurement of success or failure vs. previous period/ quarter/ year, etc.
It also depends on the market / product/ service, prompt + keyword volume and whether there was a previous site you redirected from.
It this is a net new online presence, you should have traffic hopes (goals) built off rough projections given the niche.
That’s when you say, “Wow, we averaged 100 conversions a day in our old world, now we’re getting 200 with 50 of those being sourced to a LLM platform!”
(previously it was zero)
Happy you’re fascinated by the traffic from ChatGPT. Truly. Now let’s level-set those numbers.
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What was the format of the content?
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