My First Million

The best business ideas come from noticing what's working and doing it better, faster, or for a different audience.

Optimize content and website to appear in AI answer results instead of just search rankings

Marketers, content creators, and business owners adapting to AI-driven search behavior

3-6 months to see initial results

What Success Looks Like

Your content appears as citations in ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI tool responses. You track meaningful traffic from AI referrals in your analytics.

Steps to Execute

Allow AI crawler bots (OAI searchbot, GPT bot) to access your website

Set up tracking for AI referral traffic in analytics

Reformat existing content into structured Q&A format

Create content that directly answers specific questions

Maintain SEO best practices for authority and crawlability

Monitor Reddit discussions and participate where relevant

Checklist

AI bots allowed in robots.txt

AI traffic tracking enabled

Content formatted as Q&A

Clear question-answer structure

Authority building still active

Reddit participation strategy

Inputs Needed

Access to website backend
Analytics platform
Content audit of existing materials
List of target questions customers ask

Outputs

AI crawler access
AI traffic measurement
Optimized content
Question-answer formatted pages

Example

“A SaaS company reformats their 'Best CRM' blog post from narrative style to Q&A format: 'What are the best CRMs for small business?' followed by structured answers. They enable AI bot crawling and track when ChatGPT cites them in customer responses.”