Matt asked ChatGPT to fix his look and got a list of stores to shop at—which raises the real question: how did it pick those, and not yours? Turns out many retailers are invisible to AI shopping tools for the most mundane reason possible: their own security settings are blocking the crawlers. From there, it’s a checklist—clean product data, trust signals, and third-party validation—that determines who gets recommended and who doesn’t exist at all.
The robots.txt setting that’s hiding your catalog from ChatGPT
