Bing visibility now includes how frequently AI answers cite you. Bing Webmaster Tools has an AI Performance report that shows citations of your pages in Microsoft Copilot, AI summaries in Bing and select partner integrations.
The report gives total citations, average cited pages, grounding queries (the searches an AI answer ran to find its sources) and page-level activity. It measures citations rather than ranking, so we read it as a list of pages worth improving.
ChatGPT search has its own crawler. OpenAI says OAI-SearchBot surfaces sites in ChatGPT search, while GPTBot, which relates to training, is a separate setting, so appearing in ChatGPT search and allowing training are two different choices. Five steps cover Bing search, Copilot answers and ChatGPT search alike.
- Verify the site in Bing Webmaster Tools and send changed URLs through IndexNow.
- Allow Bingbot and OAI-SearchBot in robots.txt.
- Match grounding queries to the pages that earn citations, then tighten those pages.
- Keep key facts in plain HTML text rather than inside images or scripts.
- Extend the same care to every AI answer engine through AI search optimization.