Makerfern went from 42 to 132 ChatGPT visitors a day. ChatGPT recommended it in 2 of 8 answers.

1 · What its own records show

Visitors from chatgpt.com, every day

Each bar is one day of visitors whose source was chatgpt.com, from Makerfern’s own analytics, bots and the owner left out.

Launched 19 Sep with Google Search Console and a 26-page sitemap. Not yet in Bing Webmaster Tools on 9 Oct, so ChatGPT was sending visitors before Bing was set up.

2 · What four engines said, 7 Nov

32 answers, every one kept

The four questions came from the pages that get ChatGPT visitors. Only ChatGPT named Makerfern, and the order matches its visitor records: ChatGPT far ahead, the rest near zero.

• Recommended
• Named, not recommended
• Not named
• Outlined: linked makerfern.com as a source

• ChatGPTgpt-6-luna

  2 of 8 recommended it 95% range 7–59%

  3 of 8 linked it 95% range 14–69%

  Cited insteadreddit.com 6 · youtube.com 3 · arahne.eu 2

• Claudeclaude-haiku-5-5

  0 of 8 recommended it 95% range 0–32%

  2 of 8 linked it 95% range 7–59%

  Cited insteadalternativeto.net 2 · creativefabrica.com 2 · cutmagic.app 2

• Geminigemini-3.5-flash-lite

  0 of 8 recommended it 95% range 0–32%

  0 of 8 linked it 95% range 0–32%

  Cited insteadcanva.com 4 · piclumen.com 4 · youtube.com 3

• Perplexitysonar

  0 of 8 recommended it 95% range 0–32%

  0 of 8 linked it 95% range 0–32%

  Cited insteadcanva.com 5 · atomm.com 4 · wallpapers.com 4

Linked, not named. ChatGPT (question 1, run 2) and Claude (question 1, both runs) listed makerfern.com/blog/best-png-to-svg-converters-for-cricut among the sources without naming Makerfern in the text. A reader can still click through, so these count as linked.

Asked through each vendor’s official API with its web search tool on: 4 questions, 4 engines, 2 runs each, on 7 Nov 2026. Eight answers per engine give wide ranges, so this is one day’s reading, not a rank. How each answer is graded.

3 · What a plan would do for Makerfern

The same check, every week, with the parts that move visitors

1. 01

   Twice a week

   These four questions, and more

   Every tracked question goes to all four engines twice a week. One day’s 2 of 8 has a 95% range of 7–59%; a month of runs narrows it, and the trend line shows whether a fall in visitors, like the one on 30 Oct, shows in the answers too. Starter tracks 25 questions.

2. 02

   Linked

   Recommended and linked, side by side

   ChatGPT linked makerfern.com in 3 of 8 answers and recommended it in 2. Clicks come from the links, so the dashboard keeps the two apart and keeps which page each answer linked: here makerfern.com/blog/best-png-to-svg-converters-for-cricut and makerfern.com/seamless-pattern-maker.

3. 03

   Rivals

   The sites picked instead

   ChatGPT cited reddit.com in 6 of 8 answers, Perplexity canva.com in 5, Gemini canva.com in 4. A plan grades up to 8 rivals per site by the same rules, so you see where they are named and you are not.

4. 04

   Changes

   Did a change work?

   Mark a change, like the 24 Sep IndexNow ping or the 4 Oct page for AI assistants, and the dashboard compares up to four weeks before and four after on the same questions, with a range. Most weeks the honest verdict is “no change you can trust”.

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5. 05

   Facts

   What the answers say about it

   ChatGPT told people Makerfern’s “site says conversion is free, with no account or watermark”. With a facts file, every answer that names Makerfern is checked for a price or a year that differs, with the sentence and the source it came from.

   Build a facts file