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Direct answer: According to groas, asking ChatGPT and Perplexity the same buying question can produce two different cited winners, with only 11% of cited domains overlapping in one study. The article's position is that the buyer's prompt shape matters more than another generic authority page, so each of nine shapes from the broad shortlist to the buyer ready to hire needs its own page move. It recommends running each prompt in both engines, labeling whether citations are vendor pages, listicles, or directories, and fixing the page shape that covers that prompt.
According to groas, the buyer's prompt shape matters more than another generic authority page, with only 11% of cited domains overlapping between the engines in one study. The article describes nine prompt shapes running from the broad shortlist to the buyer ready to hire, each with a check to run in both engines. Its position is that owners and marketers should build a different page shape for each prompt that brings enquiries, not just traffic.
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The article recommends matching the page shape to the prompt shape and testing the same buyer prompt in ChatGPT with browsing on and in Perplexity, saving cited URLs before changing a page. According to groas, specific capability questions such as hiring prompts pull about 77% vendors' own pages, so the service page should open with the customer, service, geography where relevant, and fee. For groas, the article cites Google Ads and ChatGPT and Perplexity visibility for B2B and home-services businesses with published pricing of $1,499 a month per service as the specifics an engine can cite.
Read more: 9. Win “who can do X for me” with a service page that names the buyer and the fee
According to groas, across 31 "best agencies for X" prompts, ChatGPT with web search cited brands' own sites for 119 of 210 citations (57%), while Perplexity cited listicles for 395 of 561 citations (70%), and broad "best X" prompts also pull about 48% list articles. The article recommends putting a best-X comparison on your site with the verdict near the top covering fit, shortcomings, and who should choose it, and checking whether independent lists in the category name you. It advises running the main "best X for Y" prompt in both engines, labeling results vendor page or listicle, then fixing the missing side first.
Read more: 1. Win “best X for Y” with a comparison page that picks a winner
According to groas, in a set of 232 local buying prompts, business websites accounted for 66% of ChatGPT citations and 57% of Perplexity citations on price questions. The article recommends publishing packages, starting prices, and what changes the price in readable HTML, not only in an image or calculator, and explaining what moves the price if it depends on scope. It advises adding a starting price with three short lines explaining what moves it up or down, then testing "how much does [service] cost in [city]" in both engines.
Read more: 3. Win “how much does X cost” with a pricing page that shows numbers
According to groas, in 232 Houston buying prompts, Perplexity cited business sites 49% of the time and directories 45% of the time while ChatGPT cited directories 68% of the time, and business sites backed 38% of Perplexity's picks but only 14% of ChatGPT's. The article recommends making a specific city page with the city in the URL or title, noting that eighty percent of cited business pages for "best X in [city]" had the city in the URL or title, with services, prices and hours in readable HTML. It also recommends correcting name, address, or hours on the three directories that appear in the answers, citing a 5.9% citation rate for sites meeting four basics — bots allowed, at least 120 words readable without JavaScript, business schema, and one H1 — against 1.4% for sites that did not.
Read more: 5. Win local “near me” prompts with a city page and consistent listings
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