How to Get Your Site Recommended by ChatGPT: AIclicks Test

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We asked ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews 25 questions that people ask before they choose an AI visibility tool. The engines gave 74 answers. Our site, hayka-pacha.io, was in zero of them.

Our agents ran that test on November 8, 2026, with AIclicks, an AI search visibility tool, on a 3-day trial of its Starter plan. Below: the pages ChatGPT actually cites, the searches it runs behind each answer, the moment the tool’s own assistant got our business wrong, and what we changed on our site the next day. One limit up front: this is one day of data.

Watch the full test (9 min 13):

Why does it matter whether ChatGPT recommends your site?

When someone asks ChatGPT “what’s the best tool for this?”, the answer names three or four brands, and under it sit a few links: the pages it took its answer from. If your review is one of those links, you get the visit. If it isn’t, you’re not in that answer at all. Getting into those answers is what GEO (generative engine optimization) is about, and our GEO vs SEO explainer covers how it differs from ranking in Google.

You can check this by hand, for free: ask ChatGPT your buyer’s question, then open the sources. Our free GEO audit shows the method step by step. That works for three questions. For 25 questions, every day, across three AI engines, you need a tracker.

What is AIclicks, and how does setup work?

AIclicks is an AI visibility tracker: you give it your website, it suggests the questions to track (it calls them prompts), and every day it asks those prompts to the AI engines on your plan. Then it records which brands get mentioned and which pages get cited.

We signed up to AIclicks with a magic link, no password, and went through its 5-step onboarding:

1. Brand: our domain, the name Hayka Pacha, United States, English.
2. Profile: a few questions about us.
3. Services: it read our site and guessed what we sell: AI Visibility Audits, GEO Content Strategy, AI Content Automation, AI Growth Infrastructure.
4. Prompts: 25 prompts in 5 topics.
5. Competitors: 10 suggestions. We kept Profound, Peec AI, Otterly.AI, AthenaHQ and Goodie AI.

Watch step 3. We don’t sell AI visibility audits: we’re a media site that tests tools. That guess shaped the prompts, the competitors and, later, the advice.

The last screen, “Your AI Search Analytics”, shows our site in first place with 87% visibility. It’s labelled “Sample data”. It is not a result, and our real numbers were very different.

How much does AIclicks cost?

AIclicks Starter costs $59 a month after a 3-day trial, and the trial needs a credit card. The AIclicks pricing page says: “Cancel before day 3 and pay nothing.” Our checkout charged €0 on the day the trial started.

Prices from the public pricing page, read on November 8, 2026. Yearly billing is advertised at “up to -29%”. Starter also covers 1 website, 2,790 answers a month and 5 AI-written articles; Pro gives 15 articles.

Two things didn’t match. Inside the app, the same plans showed in euros (Starter €59, Pro €189, Business €499), and Stripe added 21% VAT at our checkout. And for Pro, the app listed 3 websites while the public page said “Unlimited”. If you track several sites, check that line before you pay.

On Starter, our 3 engines were ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews (“3 of 3 models selected”). Claude and Perplexity showed “Upgrade plan or buy”.

Which settings should you fix before reading any number?

Open Brand Settings first: the description, the name variations and the sitemap decide what the tool counts.

• Description. The tool uses it to guess your market. Ours said we build AI-automated infrastructure and products. We rewrote it to say we test AI tools and compare their prices.
• Name variations. The tool writes our brand “Hayka-pacha”. An AI answer may write “Hayka Pacha” or “hayka-pacha.io”, and a mention the tool can’t match isn’t counted. We added both.
• Sitemap. We gave it https://hayka-pacha.io/sitemap-index.xml, so it knows which pages we actually have.

Fix those three fields, and every number after that means something.

How visible was our site in ChatGPT, Gemini and AI Overviews?

Zero. The dashboard read “Hayka-pacha: 0.0% visibility”: 74 answers collected from ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, and 0 mentions of our site.

The Industry Ranking shows who wins instead. Among the 5 competitors we track, Profound was mentioned 57 times (36.5% share of voice), Peec AI 49 times (31.3%), Otterly AI 34 times (21.7%), AthenaHQ 12 times and Goodie AI 4 times. We sat at “#6”, with nothing. Competitor Discovery found 78 brands in the same answers: Semrush’s AI Visibility Toolkit came up in 12 of the 25 prompts, Ahrefs Brand Radar in 5. Data collection started on November 8, 2026, so all of this is one day.

Which pages does ChatGPT cite when it recommends AI visibility tools?

Mostly “best tools in 2026” lists. The Sources screen checked 31 URLs that the engines cited across our prompts, and 0 of them mention us. This is the most useful screen in the tool. The top three:

On our prompts, the answers leaned on a handful of “best of” lists, with a number and the year in the title, and repeated the brands those lists name. So there are two ways in: get mentioned in those lists, or publish the list the engines read. And a YouTube video made the top three, so videos get cited too.

What does ChatGPT search for behind its answer?

Prices, alternatives, comparisons and verdicts. When an AI engine answers a question, it runs its own searches in the background, and AIclicks lists them under Fanout Queries. Ours kept repeating the same words: comparison, alternatives, pricing, vs competitors, worth it, review, features.

That’s a checklist for any page that wants to be cited: a price table, the alternatives, a comparison and a clear verdict. If your page doesn’t answer “how much?” and “is it worth it?”, the engine finds a page that does.

What does the Get Mentioned list give you?

An outreach list. Under Actions, Get Mentioned found 26 pages on 17 domains that get cited and don’t mention us. The domain semrush.com alone had 6 of them. Those are the pages to get into.

Starter also includes 5 AI-written articles a month. Our counter stayed at “Posts 0/5”: we didn’t use them, so we can’t judge them.

Why did AIclicks’ assistant get our business wrong?

Because setup guessed our business from our site, and everything after was built on that guess. AIclicks has an assistant called Clicky. We asked it for 3 quick wins to get our site recommended. It “Worked through 13 steps · 35s”, then told us to create an AI visibility audit page, add a comparison page and rewrite our homepage around audits.

Good advice for an agency. We don’t sell audits. So we corrected it: we’re a media site that tests AI tools and earns from affiliate links, and we want ChatGPT to cite our review pages, so which prompts should we track instead?

The second answer (“Worked through 12 steps · 1m 3s”) was the most useful thing in the whole test: 5 prompts tied to pages we already have.

• best LLM visibility tracking tools
• cheapest AI visibility tracking tools with a free trial
• Wisewand review: is it worth the price?
• best AI article writers for SEO
• best Zapier alternatives

We clicked “Add 5”, and the card switched to “Added”. Clicky also listed what the cited pages have: “Answer first”, “A comparison table near the top”, “The ‘best … in 2026’ framing in the title”, “Real hands-on testing”. And it read our homepage: “The homepage says ‘Infrastructure expertise, turned into products’ and never mentions tool reviews”.

Check what the tool thinks you are before you trust a single number. And if you run an affiliate site, aim at the right target: you don’t need ChatGPT to recommend your brand, you need it to cite your review page as a source.

What did we change on our site after the test?

On November 9, 2026, we changed three things on hayka-pacha.io, each one taken from what the test showed.

1. Homepage line: from “Infrastructure expertise, turned into products.” to “AI and automation tools, tested on real screens.”
2. Blog intro: it no longer says we don’t write best-practice listicles, the format the engines cited most in our test.
3. Comparison page: our comparison of AI visibility tracking tools now has “Best” and the year in its title, and includes AIclicks with this test and its numbers. It’s the page we want cited for “best LLM visibility tracking tools”.

In AIclicks, the brand description, the name variations “Hayka Pacha” and “hayka-pacha.io” and the sitemap are set, and the 5 new prompts are tracked.

Will it work, and when will we know?

We don’t know yet. One day of data is a starting point, not a trend, and Clicky itself says: “Judge these prompts after 14 days at the earliest.” Our trial ends after 3 days. After that, we’ll check these prompts by hand in ChatGPT and see what moved.

Who should pay for AIclicks, and who shouldn’t?

If you have one small site, start with the free manual check; a tracker makes sense when you need dozens of prompts checked every day. Ask ChatGPT the three questions your buyers ask, open the sources and write down which pages show up.

AIclicks earns its price with daily tracking on many prompts, the Sources and Fanout Queries screens and the Get Mentioned list. Know the limit: Starter covers 3 engines, and Perplexity and Claude need a bigger plan or an add-on.

If you do this for clients, the same screens (visibility, competitors, cited sources, action list) are the material of an AI visibility audit. The Pro plan, at $189 a month, gives 150 prompts and room for several websites.

How we test explains how our agents run and log sessions like this one.