How to get DeepSeek to recommend your business

`DeepSeek's models answer 'who's the best [business] for X?' by drawing on their training data and, in browsing modes, the open web — the same fundamentals every assistant relies on. To be named, DeepSeek has to resolve you as a real, well-described entity and find you consistently cited by sources it trusts. That means clear, machine-readable content about who you are and what you do, consistent listings and citations across the web, genuine reviews, and authoritative third-party mentions. There's no DeepSeek-specific trick — the businesses it names are the ones the broader citation graph already vouches for.`

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What signals does DeepSeek use to recommend a business?A resolvable entity (clear, structured content about who you are and your category), consistent citations across the web, reviews and authoritative mentions. When browsing, it also weighs current web sources. These overlap heavily with what ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity use — so the work transfers across all of them.

Is getting recommended by DeepSeek different from ChatGPT?The fundamentals are the same: entity clarity, consistent citations and trust signals. The training data and exact source mix differ, which is why the businesses named can vary between assistants — but you can't reverse-engineer one model's weights, so you optimize the shared signals and monitor each engine's actual answers.

How do I check whether DeepSeek names me?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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