Jim Floyd

30% of ChatGPT results share one common characteristic that you could *easily* apply to your site to get more visibility + traffic. No new expenses. No need to hire anyone. It doesn't get any simpler than this. And it just so happens SEO Stuff (seo-stuff.com) has been doing this for the last 6 months for our customers. (Which probably explains why 80% of customers are so happy with their results that they come back for multiple purchases.) Before we get into it though... If you want some free cheat codes for landing free traffic from ChatGPT within the next ~30 days, just RT this + follow me + reply with "ChatGPT SEO" and I'll DM you. You must do all 3 or the DM. And make sure you check out the Gold Plan (seo-stuff.com/gold-plan-pack…) - there is a reason it is the best-selling SEO Stuff package for businesses across e-commerce, B2B SaaS, education and the agency space. Alright, everyone is obsessing over entity SEO, backlinks, and freshness signals. All important. But a new study from Nectiv just revealed one of the simplest, most overlooked ways to get cited inside ChatGPT. Tables. Yes, tables. Nectiv analyzed thousands of ChatGPT citations and compared them against Google search results. The findings were impossible to ignore: ChatGPT results contained tables 2.3 times more often than Google results. Nearly 30 percent of all ChatGPT citations contained at least one <table> element. Only 12 percent of comparable Google results included tables. This confirms what we have been seeing internally at SEO Stuff for months: ChatGPT favors structured, scannable, comparison-driven content. Tables are one of the strongest formatting signals you can give it. Let’s break down why this matters. 1. ChatGPT citations heavily rely on extractability. LLMs do not read your entire page like a human. They extract chunks. When your content contains tables, you are giving the model an extremely clean, structured block that: Highlights differences Surfaces key attributes Creates a single source of truth Reduces ambiguity Mirrors how LLMs summarize This is why comparison tables outperform paragraphs and bullet lists for AI citations. 2. Tables map directly to how LLMs answer commercial questions. Queries like: “Best payment processors for small business” “X vs Y vs Z laptop differences” “Top CRM tools with pricing breakdowns” These require structured comparisons. So LLMs look for structured comparison content. Tables are the clearest format for that. 3. This aligns with every major study released in 2025. Rankscale found that the majority of AI citations come from: Vendor comparison posts Best of lists Product vs product breakdowns Profound discovered that ChatGPT has moved fully into an entity-structured output layer, tagging brands and comparing features more explicitly. SEO Clarity found that AI extractability correlates with visibility more than backlinks alone. Bain found that shopping queries on ChatGPT have doubled and users click links at 2 to 3 times the rate they used to. All of these trends point to the same thing: Comparison content wins. Structured content wins. Tables win. 4. So what should you do right now? If you want citations inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews, your content must include: Table-based comparisons Multi-column breakdowns (features, pricing, pros, cons) Clear attributes for each competitor High-level TLDR at the top Question-based H2s Clean HTML The brands that adopt this format early will own category definitions inside AI search. 5. This is exactly why SEO Stuff customers outperform others. Every Gold Plan and Premium Content Bundle already includes table-ready layouts because comparison formats are the fastest way to earn AI citations. SEO Stuff Gold Plan seo-stuff.com/gold-plan-pack… 10 long form comparison articles 3 DR50 plus backlinks Every page structured with TLDRs, question-based H2s, and extractable data blocks These give AI engines structured content they can quote instantly. SEO Stuff Premium Content Bundle seo-stuff.com/premium-conten… 60 comparison articles Built with comparison tables, factual summaries, and clean HTML Optimized for ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI Overviews These create the volume of structured content needed to train LLMs to associate your brand with your category. If ChatGPT is going to show tables nearly 30 percent of the time, and Google only 12 percent of the time, the brands that publish structured tables first will dominate AI search faster than anyone else. Tables are not the whole game, but they are one of the clearest, easiest, highest impact formatting upgrades you can make. The companies that move early will own the next era of commercial search. And if you want some free cheat codes for landing free traffic from ChatGPT within the next ~30 days, just RT this + follow me + reply with "ChatGPT SEO" and I'll DM you. You must do all 3 for the DM.