GEEKY Social Hosted Another LIVE Webinar on How ChatGPT Recommends Brands and How Bangladeshi Brands Can Make the Most of It

On 28 October, 2025, GEEKY Social organized another insightful webinar titled “ChatGPT is the New Search Engine: How to Get Your Brand Mentioned in ChatGPT Recommendations.” Marketing professionals, brand managers, business owners, learners and enthusiasts very eagerly joined this event to learn how AI-powered assistants are newly creating a market of online search and brand visibility.

The session shed light on how consumers, especially Gen Z and young millennials are moving beyond Google and increasingly turning to ChatGPT, Gemini, and other AI assistants for product recommendations, research, and purchase decisions.
 

Highlights of the Webinar

The 60-minute live session was divided into two segments: a Knowledge Session led by GEEKY Social’s SEO experts, followed by a LIVE Q&A session where attendees were curious to learn more about AI discovery.

Key discussion points included:

• How conversational AI tools are influencing buying decisions globally and locally.
• Understanding the factors that determine why some brands appear in ChatGPT responses.
• How brand visibility, backlinks, and media coverage influence AI algorithms.
• Examples of how Bangladeshi brands are appearing in ChatGPT recommendations.
• How to evolve SEO and content strategies to remain discoverable in this era of AI search.

 

Key Lessons Learned

Participants discovered that visibility in AI platforms is no longer just about traditional SEO. It now depends on a brand’s overall digital authority, including mentions, content credibility, and online presence.

The experts emphasized that businesses need to think beyond keywords, focusing instead on building trust signals that AI systems recognize and recommend.

Attendees also learned that Digital PR, brand reputation, and consistent content publishing play critical roles in how AI bots source and fetch information and then ultimately cite brands.

Below are the key lessons of the session:  
 

1. ChatGPT converts better than Google!

ChatGPT has a monthly visits of 1.1 million from Bangladesh alone (excluding app data). To put that into perspective, Facebook has 39.3M, Google has 60.2M, YouTube has 92.2M visits from Bangladesh, again this includes only website traffic and not the app data. 

Neil Patel recently posted on X that ChatGPT hit 1 billion daily searches 9 years faster than Google and is on pace to match Google’s current scale by 2030 (which is 17 years faster).  

The Sales Conversion Rates also dramatically vary for Google and ChatGPT. According to a study from Writesonic, ChatGPT converts into a sale 2.08x better than Google!  
 

2. ChatGPT referral works in 2 ways

ChatGPT referrals work in 2 ways. Either it cites a source which can be your blog post or it directly mentions the brand. 

As ChatGPT is an LLM (Large Language Model), so first we need to understand how LLM works. LLM is a type of artificial intelligence (AI), which is trained on vast amounts of text data (books, articles etc) to read, understand and generate human-like language. 

LLMs are the technology behind generative AI that performs tasks like answering questions, summarizing texts, and creating contents. Some LLM Examples are ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, Siri, Alexa etc.
 

3. Credibility and trust signals are most important factors for ChatGPT referrals

Usually brands who have a 360 Digital Footprint and are often mentioned by people in Groups, Forums and by trusted influencers, are most likely to get picked by ChatGPT in a competitive niche.   

According to Search Engine Land, ChatGPT’s top three sources of information are Wikipedia (27%), News Articles (27%) and Blog Articles (21%). ChatGPT selects sources that match exact intent, not just keywords. For example, in ChatGPT, people usually ask more specific questions. So, it will pick content that answers more accurately and has more in-depth knowledge.  

ChatGPT model prefers brands and sources with strong reputation credibility. Key signals include:

• High-quality backlinks
• Citations from authoritative media
• Strong real-world presence (business authority)

Apart from all that, LLMs love structure! They need content that is easy to parse and summarise. Along with that, the model favors specialized expertise instead of generic content. Lastly, ChatGPT heavily prefers brands and content that feel credible and widely referenced online. If multiple trusted sources mention you with similar messaging, ChatGPT says, “This brand is a reliable answer”.
 

4. Produce LLM-friendly contents and gather brand mentions to ensure ChatGPT suggests you

Since now you know how ChatGPT and the underlying LLM works, let’s learn how you should now make and structure content so that ChatGPT picks you as a source of information or recommend your brand. 

• Publish relevant blog articles regularly. Maintain a writer profile with E-E-A-T (Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness) in mind. Add FAQs. Write in a conversational way.
• Write product guide, comparisons etc. 
• Create cluster-based informational and commercial pages.
• Build brand mentions, guest-post link building and PR articles.
• Add product descriptions (color, material, weight etc). 
• Use schema markup for better user experience and bot crawlability.
• Encourage public reviews and discussions in public groups and forums.
• Keep claims factual and consensus-aligned.

 

5. Small businesses can also get mentioned by ChatGPT

Many from the audience had this one particular question – does ChatGPT mention small businesses as well? A small business owner Sadia asked in the Question-Answer segment that she started her business just 3 months ago; what can she do to get ChatGPT recommendation?  

The main speaker of the event, Mahadi Hasan Sagor, co-founder and managing director of GEEKY Social answered that, “the process is the same for small and big brands. Create your digital presence, optimize and monitor.” Mr. Sagor continued “brands need to be consistent with content producing and collecting reviews and mentions from groups and forums.   

Another participant asked, “Do I need to have a website to get recommended by ChatGPT? The co-speaker Samiul, who is also a SEO Project Manager of GEEKY Social replied, “It’s a strength and you will be ahead of your competitors who don’t have a website. But that being said, it’s not necessarily that ChatGPT mentions only those brands who have a website, although a diverse online footprint always helps. 

He added, “It mostly depends on the user what they’re explicitly asking to ChatGPT. Surely users don’t usually tell ChatGPT to list the brands that have websites only!”   
 

Why This Webinar Was Important

As AI continues to reshape digital marketing, this webinar came at a crucial time for Bangladeshi businesses. With more consumers relying on ChatGPT for answers, brands that adapt early will have a competitive advantage in visibility, trust, and long-term growth.

Through this session, GEEKY Social reaffirmed its commitment to helping businesses in Bangladesh stay ahead of digital trends and leverage emerging technologies for sustainable marketing success.
 

What’s Next

Stay tuned for GEEKY Social’s upcoming webinars and knowledge-sharing sessions in the News & Events section as we continue to explore the evolving world of digital marketing and AI.

If you have any specific query or want to learn more or need further consultation, don’t hesitate to contact us. Call us or email us or message us on Facebook.