How to Get Your Woking Business Recommended by ChatGPT
Ask ChatGPT for a plumber or a hairdresser in Woking and it answers from whatever it can read about local businesses. Here is how it chooses, the free things a Woking business can do about it, and where a listing or an advert on this site fits.
See the advertising options ↓Can you get ChatGPT to recommend your Woking business?
You cannot pay for it and nobody can honestly guarantee it. What you can do is make sure clear, consistent facts about your business are published on the pages AI assistants read: what you do, where you work, your opening hours and your reviews. Keep your Google Business Profile accurate, ask customers for reviews, and make sure your business is listed correctly on Woking.co.
What we cannot promise
We cannot promise that ChatGPT, Google or any other tool will recommend your business. They decide for themselves and their answers change. Anyone who tells you otherwise is guessing.
How these tools pick a local business
When someone asks ChatGPT "who is a good electrician in Woking?", it searches the web and builds its answer from pages that state plainly who does what, and where. AI assistants favour pages that answer the question directly, that name the business, the trade and the place together, and that agree with what other sources say.
Three things follow. A business described clearly on several trusted pages is easier to recommend than one with a bare listing. Reviews matter, because "best" and "good" questions are usually answered from ratings. And details that disagree, such as two phone numbers or two addresses, make a business harder to recommend.
Say Woking, and say it consistently
Woking is more than one place. There is the town centre, and around it neighbourhoods and villages such as Horsell, Knaphill, Goldsworth Park, St John's, Old Woking, Sheerwater, Westfield and West Byfleet. Woking is in the GU21 and GU22 postcode districts, and West Byfleet is KT14.
If your website says Woking, your Google profile says Horsell and your Facebook page says Surrey, an assistant has three different answers to "where is this business?". Pick the wording that is true for you and use it everywhere: the same business name, the same address, the same phone number, and the same list of places you cover.
Four things to do for free
Check your listing on Woking.co. Find your business in the directory and use the "Claim this listing" link on its page to correct anything that is wrong. If you are not listed, add your business. A basic listing is free.
Keep your Google Business Profile accurate. Category, services, opening hours, phone number and address should match what is on your website and everywhere else.
Ask customers for reviews. A steady flow of genuine Google reviews is the clearest signal there is. Never buy or invent reviews.
Say what you do in plain words on your own website. A page for each service and each area you cover, written the way a customer would ask the question. If you do not have a website yet, read Does a Woking business need a website?
What paying for an advert on Woking.co does
Woking.co sells adverts, and it is worth being clear about what they are. There are four self-serve adverts from £5 a month, and a category spot at £149 a year: one business per trade gets a labelled "Sponsored" box at the top of its trade's category page, with its name, one line about it, its website and its phone number.
These are adverts and they are labelled as adverts. A category spot does not change the order of the listings. They put your name in front of people using this site. We do not claim they will make an AI assistant recommend you. See the advertising options.
Related guides
Trades should read website design for tradesmen in Woking. If you would like software to handle the enquiries once they arrive, see AI automation for small businesses in Woking.
Quick answers
How do I get my Woking business into ChatGPT's answers? Publish clear, consistent facts about your business on pages AI assistants read: your own website, your Google Business Profile and trusted local sites. Keep the details accurate and collect genuine reviews. Nobody can guarantee a recommendation.
Can I pay ChatGPT to recommend me? No. ChatGPT builds its answers from what it finds on the web. You can only improve the information about your business that is there for it to read.
Is a listing on Woking.co free? Yes. Basic listings are free.
What does advertising on Woking.co cost? Self-serve adverts start at £5 a month. The category spot, a labelled sponsored box at the top of your trade's category page, is £149 a year.
Does paying move my business up the listings? No. The category spot is a labelled advert above the listings. It does not change their order.
Do reviews affect AI recommendations? Yes. Questions about the best or most trusted local business are usually answered using ratings and reviews, so genuine Google reviews help.
Do you guarantee my business will be recommended? No. AI assistants and search engines decide for themselves, and their answers change over time.
About this guide
Woking.co is published by Dean Keating. The site sells the adverts described here, so this guide is partly about our own product. The free steps above are worth doing whether or not you buy anything.
Get your business on Woking.co
A basic listing is free. Labelled adverts start at £5 a month, and the category spot for your trade is £149 a year.
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