This category covers 2 markets and 10 questions, with entry bars from 32 to 39. Third-party content dominates 2 of the 2 markets.
Markets
2
Questions asked
10
Entry bar range
32 to 39
Markets mostly third-party
2 of 2
Directories such as agencies.semrush.com and themanifest.com get cited, along with clutch.co, designrush.com and goodfirms.co. In Australia the directory page itself gets the citation. In Austin, roundups and city guides are what get quoted.
This page covers marketing agencies, a different buyer and provider from the tech services on Agencies and tech services.
Most of what is cited here is other people's writing, so how to get recommended by ChatGPT covers earning those mentions.
Median site
43
Bar
32
Content share
100%
Tested site
25
Editorial verdict, as of 2026-10-02: Contested. The median cited site scores 43 and the bar is 32. Content share is 100%. The engines treated the country as a topic, so a local agency is measured against national content.
Content share is the share of cited sources that were articles about the category (100% here), and a vendor's own page does not count. A tested site scored 25 against a bar of 32. It cleared the bar on 0 of 5 questions, and on 4 of 5 questions a site below the bar was cited anyway.
Get listed and reviewed in the agency directories the engines quote. In this market the directory page gets the citation.
100 domains were cited across the 5 questions; these are the most-cited, each with one page the engines read.
Median site
50
Bar
39
Content share
88%
Tested site
9
Editorial verdict, as of 2026-10-02: Contested. The median cited site scores 50 and the bar is 39. Content share is 88%.
Content share is the share of cited sources that were articles about the category (88% here), and a vendor's own page does not count. A tested site scored 9 against a bar of 39. It cleared the bar on 0 of 5 questions, and on 0 of 5 questions a site below the bar was cited anyway.
Get quoted in the roundups and city guides the engines already cite. Articles about the category make up 88% of the cited sources.
74 domains were cited across the 5 questions; these are the most-cited, each with one page the engines read.
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