Getting cited by AI.
Answer engines cite pages that state facts plainly: a named artist, a stated medium, prices, a place, and a page title that matches what people ask. Most artist sites have none of that on one page.
- One page of facts. Name, city, medium, subjects, sizes, prices, contact. In sentences. A slideshow says nothing an engine can quote.
- The same name everywhere. Site, Instagram, marketplaces. Engines merge sources by exact name.
- A title that matches the question. “Jane Doe · Bird Paintings in Oil, Vermont” gets cited for bird paintings in Vermont. “Portfolio” gets cited for nothing.
- Person structured data. schema.org Person with name, url and sameAs links to your Instagram and shop.
- A titled body of work. Titles, sizes, mediums, years. Engines quote specifics and skip “untitled, mixed media”.
- Listings on pages that already get cited. Curated collections, marketplaces, guides. A citation of the collection carries your name with it.
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Questions
Does ChatGPT cite artist websites?
Yes, when the page answers a question with facts. In our tests the engines named small shops whose page title matched the query; portfolio sites with a slideshow and no text rarely appear.
What is structured data?
A block of schema.org JSON on the page that states who you are, where, and what you make, in a form machines read without guessing. Every artist page here carries it.
Does Instagram get cited?
Rarely as a source. It confirms the name and links back to the page that does get cited.
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