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When ChatGPT searches only your own website for an answer, which of your pages does it land on first?
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Short answer
Run the same narrow site searches yourself and make sure the current product page, not a retired flavor, an old launch post or a spec-sheet PDF, comes up first for each common product question.
Peec AI's Q3 2026 analysis found that by September, 21% of the background searches ChatGPT ran were limited to a specific website, up from almost none in July, and that searches including the word official or the current year became more common. When an assistant goes straight to your domain, the first page it finds there becomes its source. On a lot of brand sites that is still a 2023 launch announcement, a discontinued size or a PDF nobody has opened since the last reformulation.
Do this
- List your ten best sellers and, for each, the two questions shoppers ask most: ingredients or allergens, size or count, and where to buy.
- In Google and in Bing, search site:yourbrand.com with the product name and each question, and write down the first result and its date.
- Where a retired product, an old press release or a PDF comes first, redirect it to the current product page, or add one plain line at the top that names the current version and links to it.
- Put the product name, variant and size in each product page's title and first sentence, and show a visible updated date when the facts change.
- Repeat the check every quarter and after any site migration or reformulation.
Effort is our estimate for a small brand team. Assistant tags come from the assistants this tip names. See also AI shopping assistants compared.