At a glance: ChatGPT cites only 15% of the pages it retrieves — the other 85% get read and dropped. Retrieval gets you into the room; extractability wins the citation. To make the 15%, lead every section with a direct one-to-three-sentence answer, cover the fan-out sub-questions ChatGPT actually asks, and keep the page visibly fresh.
What this covers
- Retrieval is not citation: the 85% problem
- Retrieved-but-ignored vs cited: what the 15% do differently
- The fan-out loophole: a third of citations come from queries nobody tracks
- How to find your fan-out queries
- Extractability: writing answer-shaped blocks
- Freshness: the quiet filter on commercial queries
This is a technical summary. The full guide — with the data, tables and worked examples — is on our site: *How to Be in the 15% of Pages ChatGPT Actually Cites (2026 Guide)*.
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