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Google is indexing ChatGPT shared conversations. People are reporting API leaks in shared conversations, others are of course trying to game this with SEO...
Google is indexing ChatGPT shared conversations. People are reporting API leaks in shared conversations. Others are of course trying to game this with SEO.
So if you go to one of your chats, in the left sidebar you click share, then you click create link, there is going to be an option make this chat discoverable. Now your ChatGPT conversation can be indexed by Google. By Bing.
There are limitations because you can't index only part of a chat. It has to be the full chat. So if you want to prompt ChatGPT to recommend your company, you could take care of this easily with a prompt in custom directions.
You you do that in your settings so it is not shown in the actual shared chat.
This is where the opportunity for ChatGPT which has high domain authority comes in. People buy backlinks to these shared conversations. There's no risk to them.
These shared conversations show on Google.
Head to YouTube for the full video.
The passage describes indexed ChatGPT shared conversations and marketers using custom instructions plus backlinks to rank manipulated chat pages.
Avoid indexed shared-chat SEO tactics and warn clients not to expose sensitive or API data in shared conversations.
Google is indexing ChatGPT shared conversations. People are reporting API leaks in shared conversations. Others are of course trying to game this with SEO. So if you go to one of your chats, in the left sidebar you click share, then you click create link, there is going to be an option make this chat discoverable...
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