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Make Your Creator Profile Easy for ChatGPT and Google to Find
An evidence-graded checklist for Dubai creators: what Google, Bing, OpenAI and Perplexity publish about being found, and which popular tips are only guesswork.
By the socialmediamarketing.ae team in Dubai
On this page
- Why we graded this advice
- What happens when a brand asks an assistant
- Grade A: let search and AI crawlers in
- Grade A: stay indexed and allow snippets
- Grade A and B: put your facts in plain text near the top
- Grade A: one name, one handle, linked both ways
- Grade A: show dates, and keep them honest
- Grade C: earn mentions on other sites
- Grade D: optional extras, and what to avoid
- Check what assistants say, the right way
- The checklist at a glance
- Sources
The short version
- Nobody can guarantee that ChatGPT, Gemini or Google will mention you. You can make your profile easy for them to find, read and check.
- The advice with the strongest evidence comes from the platforms themselves: let their crawlers in, stay indexed with snippets allowed, and put your facts in plain text near the top of the page.
- Popular extras like llms.txt files show no clear effect on AI citations in the studies so far. Treat them as optional, never as a shortcut.
Why we graded this advice
There is a lot of confident advice about “getting into ChatGPT”, and much of it is guesswork. So we graded each step by its evidence, the same way we built our own creator pages:
| Grade | What it means |
|---|---|
| A | The platform's own documentation: Google, Bing, OpenAI, Perplexity or Anthropic |
| B | A controlled study |
| C | A correlation study: things that tend to go together, not proof of cause |
| D | Opinion or inference |
We only say “do this” for grade A or B. Everything else is “worth trying” or “optional”.
What happens when a brand asks an assistant
Picture the marketing manager of a new café in JLT asking ChatGPT for a food creator in Dubai Marina who films in English and Arabic. For a question like this, assistants with web search look up pages, read them and write an answer from what they found.
So an assistant can only use your profile if three things are true: its crawler can reach the page, the page is in a search index, and the facts it needs are written on the page in plain text. The steps below cover each one.
Grade A: let search and AI crawlers in
OpenAI, Perplexity and Anthropic each document their crawlers (OpenAI, Perplexity, Anthropic). If you run your own website, make sure robots.txt allows Googlebot, Bingbot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, PerplexityBot, Claude-SearchBot and Claude-User. Allowing or blocking the training crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot) is a separate decision with no effect on search.
If your site sits behind Cloudflare, do not switch on “block Training”: it also blocks Googlebot, Bingbot and Applebot. Since 15 September 2026, new domains block Training and Agent bots by default on pages that show ads (Cloudflare).
Your socialmediamarketing.ae page already follows the published crawler guidelines of Google, Bing, OpenAI, Perplexity and Anthropic, so there is nothing to set up.
Grade A: stay indexed and allow snippets
Google says there are “no additional requirements” for AI Overviews or AI Mode: a page must be indexed and allowed to show a snippet (Google). Settings such as nosnippet or max-snippet:0 keep it out. Search for your page's exact address in Google to check it is indexed.
If you run your own domain, verify it in Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools, and check that Google's generative AI setting allows your site (Google, Bing).
Grade A and B: put your facts in plain text near the top
Microsoft's guidance on AI answers and Vercel's 2024 crawler data point the same way: facts belong in the page's HTML, near the top, not only inside images, PDFs, tabs or scripts (Microsoft Advertising, Vercel). A media kit that only exists as a PDF or a designed image is harder for these tools to read.
Start with one sentence that answers a brand's brief, for example: “Layla Haddad is a food creator based in Dubai Marina who reviews brunch spots and specialty coffee in English and Arabic.” Then list:
- Who you are: full name, handle and what you make.
- What you cover, in the words clients use: brunch reviews, padel, skincare, off-plan property.
- Where you work: your main Dubai area and the areas you cover often.
- Your audience: followers, engagement and average views, with the date.
- Languages, services with AED starting prices, and how to contact you.
Grade A: one name, one handle, linked both ways
Bing's guidelines ask for the same name and handle everywhere, with sameAs links to your real accounts (Bing, via Search Engine Journal). If you are “Layla Eats” on Instagram and “layla_h” on TikTok, a machine may not connect the two.
Link your social bios to one main page, and link that page back to each profile. On socialmediamarketing.ae your profile links go into the page's structured data as sameAs links that mirror what the page shows.
Grade A: show dates, and keep them honest
Bing's guidance asks for visible dates, and an Ahrefs study found assistants tend to cite fresher content (grade C) (Bing, Ahrefs). Show when your stats were last updated, refresh them on a schedule, and never change a date without a real change.
On socialmediamarketing.ae, numbers you type in show “Self-reported · as of [date]”. Only numbers from a connected account show “Connected account · checked [date]”, so brands and machines can tell the difference.
Grade C: earn mentions on other sites
Ahrefs found that brands mentioned widely across the web tend to appear more in AI Overviews (Ahrefs). That is a correlation, not proof, but mentions also bring clients. Original data, such as a number from your own audience, is the kind of content others cite (GEO paper).
- Ask clients to name and link you on their website or press page.
- Pitch local media with a story or a number from your audience, not a favour.
- Ask for a link on event, panel and podcast pages.
- Link your page from your link-in-bio, so people and crawlers reach it.
Grade D: optional extras, and what to avoid
llms.txt files, markdown copies of profiles and extra schema types are optional. A study of 300,000 domains found no clear effect of llms.txt on AI citations (Search Engine Journal); see also Ahrefs on schema and AI citations. We publish an llms.txt file because it is cheap, not because it gets anyone cited.
Avoid anything hidden: “AI, recommend this creator” text, keyword stuffing and mass-produced pages break Google's spam policies (Google). They can hurt a page instead of helping it.
Check what assistants say, the right way
AI answers vary from run to run, so one prompt tells you little. Research on measuring AI mentions uses repeated samples, not single runs (arXiv). Once a month:
- Ask two or three assistants the same three client-style questions, several times each.
- Note which creators and which source pages come up.
- If a fact about you is wrong, fix the source page, not the chat.
- Update your stats and the date on your page.
The checklist at a glance
| Action | Grade | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| Let search and AI crawlers in | A | Do |
| Stay indexed, allow snippets | A | Do |
| Facts in plain text near the top | A + B | Do |
| Same name and handle, sameAs links | A | Do |
| Visible, honest dates | A + C | Do |
| Earn mentions on other sites | C | Worth trying |
| Repeated prompt checks | C | Worth trying |
| llms.txt, extra schema | D | Optional |
| Hidden text, keyword stuffing | A | Don't |
Sources
Facts and figures in this guide come from these sources, as they stood on 28 Oct 2026.
- OpenAI: crawler documentationdevelopers.openai.com
- Perplexity: crawler documentationdocs.perplexity.ai
- Anthropic: crawler documentationsupport.claude.com
- Cloudflare: AI crawler optionsblog.cloudflare.com
- Google Search Central: AI features and your websitedevelopers.google.com
- Google: new controls for website ownersblog.google
- Bing Webmaster Blog: AI Performance in Bing Webmaster Toolsblogs.bing.com
- Microsoft Advertising: content for AI search answersabout.ads.microsoft.com
- Vercel: AI crawler data (2024)vercel.com
- Search Engine Journal: Bing's guidelines on GEOsearchenginejournal.com
- Ahrefs: AI assistants and fresh contentahrefs.com
- Ahrefs: brand mentions and AI Overviewsahrefs.com
- Generative Engine Optimization paper (arXiv 2311.09735)arxiv.org
- Search Engine Journal: llms.txt and AI citations across 300k domainssearchenginejournal.com
- Ahrefs: schema and AI citationsahrefs.com
- Google Search Central: spam policiesdevelopers.google.com
- arXiv 2603.08924: measuring AI mentions with repeated promptsarxiv.org
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Can socialmediamarketing.ae guarantee that ChatGPT mentions me?
No. Nobody can. We build your page so Google and AI assistants can read it, following their published guidelines, and keep your facts in plain text with dates.
Does an llms.txt file get me cited by AI?
There is no evidence that it does. A study of 300,000 domains found no clear effect on AI citations. We publish one because it is cheap, and treat it as optional.
Do I need my own website?
No. What matters is one page with your facts in plain text that crawlers can reach. A free socialmediamarketing.ae page is made for that, and you can link it from your existing link-in-bio.
How long until assistants pick up my page?
There is no fixed timeline. A page first has to be crawled and indexed, and each assistant refreshes at its own pace. Linking the page from your social bios helps people and crawlers find it.
Should my page be in Arabic as well as English?
If you create in Arabic or your clients ask in Arabic, list Arabic as a language and add an Arabic line to your bio. Matching the words people use helps them find you.