People Are Asking ChatGPT to Find Them a Church. Are You Showing Up?

About this episode

Here's what's already happening - a family moves to a new city and asks ChatGPT for church recommendations instead of Googling. Seconds later, they get a curated list they trust.

So the question is - is your church on it? Today, we're giving you a simple 5-step checklist to make sure you show up in this new era of search.

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Table of Contents:

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0:00 - Intro

0:51 - The Shift Is Happening, But Let's Get the Data Right

7:12 - How AI Decides Which Churches to Recommend

13:55 - The 5-Step Church AI Visibility Checklist

21:06 - What This Means for Your Website Strategy

IMPORTANT LINKS

- ChatGPT: https://chatgpt.com/

- Claude: https://claude.ai/

- Superprompt: https://superprompt.com/

- Technical SEO: https://bit.ly/4sn5IfC

- Practicing the Way: https://www.practicingtheway.org/

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ALL CITATIONS

- SSRS/Edison Research, "AI User Metrics" (February 2026, probability-based national panel, ~1,000 U.S. adults) — PRIMARY. 52% weekly AI usage.

- Orbit Media, "AI-Search Adoption Survey" (March 2026, survey of digital professionals) — PRIMARY (but industry-specific sample, not general population). 55% AI chat as primary/frequent research tool; 24% prefer AI for local queries (down from 26%); 25.7% of marketers developing AI-specific content.

- OpenAI — ChatGPT 800M weekly users (2026).

- Superprompt.com, "AI Search Traffic Converts 5x Better Than Google" (2025, analysis of 12M visits across 350+ businesses) — PRIMARY but vendor study with commercial interest. 14.2% vs. 2.8% conversion comparison. E-commerce/SaaS data, not church-specific.

- Princeton University, "Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) Research" (peer-reviewed) — PRIMARY. Up to 40% increase in AI visibility (measures visibility in AI responses, not click-throughs or real-world conversions).

- TechnicalSEO.com, "Schema Markup Generator Tool" — PRACTICAL RESOURCE. https://technicalseo.com/tools/schema-markup-generator/