GuideHow to get recommended by Claude
Claude is trained on the trusted open web and increasingly pulls live sources into its answers, so when someone asks it for the best option in your category, it names the businesses it can resolve as real entities and sees corroborated across sources it trusts. Getting recommended by Claude is less about tricks and more about being unmistakably a clear, well-cited entity — the same fundamentals that win ChatGPT and Perplexity, applied to Anthropic's model.
FAQ
How does Claude decide which businesses to name?Claude favors businesses it can resolve as a clear entity (consistent name, Organization schema, an llms.txt) and that are referenced across the trusted, well-structured sources it was trained on and now retrieves — review platforms, reputable directories and 'best of' roundups. Ambiguous or thinly-cited businesses simply don't get named.
Does optimizing for Claude help on other assistants?Yes. The entity and citation signals that make Claude confident are the same ones ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini reward. One playbook lifts you across all of them, which is why Cited checks the website signals they all rely on in a single scan.
How do I check if Claude recommends my business?Run a free Cited scan — it checks the AI-search readiness signals on your website (crawler access, llms.txt, structured data and answer-ready content) and lists the fixes to make first.
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