Looking for Someone in Bali to Rank You in ChatGPT? Read This First

I typed "i need to find someone that rank me in chatgpt and also live in bali" into Google. It told me to try a Facebook group.

ChatGPT did better. It named a few agencies, and when I asked again, it named a different few. So who do you hire?

The short version: ChatGPT's answers have no fixed order to climb, so hire someone who measures how often you're named.

A good provider asks your customers' questions in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google every month, shows you who got named, and fixes the pages those answers read.

Nobody can promise you'll be named, whatever their sales page says, but you can tell who's doing the work. Here's how to find that person in Bali, and what it costs.

I run a marketing studio in Bali and sell this monthly check, so you know where I stand. ChatGPT didn't name us either, and I'll show you who it named instead.

There's No Fixed Rank in ChatGPT

I asked ChatGPT that exact question three times on 24 October, logged out, from Bali. Every answer named a few people to contact, but never the same few.

That isn't a glitch. When ChatGPT searches, it writes each answer fresh from whatever the search finds right then, so the list moves even when the question doesn't.

8ight asked ChatGPT the same local questions 39 minutes apart. The median answer pair shared 29% of its names, and one pair in eleven shared none.

OpenAI says much the same on its ChatGPT search help page, where it warns that search results and citations "can be incomplete, outdated, or incorrect."

Across the three runs, six different sellers came up. Only one was in all three, two were in two, and the other three came up once each.

Those runs were logged out, from a Bali connection. OpenAI says ChatGPT uses an approximate location from your IP, and saved memories when you're logged in. So a customer asking from Sydney may get other names.

SparkToro had 600 volunteers run 12 prompts 2,961 times in ChatGPT, Claude and Google's AI. The same list of brands came back less than once in 100 runs.

So is there a ChatGPT ranking? Sort of. OpenAI says it ranks search results "using multiple factors", then adds: "Placement is not guaranteed." There's an order, but not a fixed one to climb.

That's why people who track this for a living don't report a position. They report how often you're named, across many questions and runs, asked from where your customers are.

And the ads under an answer are a separate product. OpenAI says ads don't influence the answer itself.

Still, you can get two things. You can be named in the answer, like the sellers above, or cited as a source under it, like a guide that lists you.

Both move between runs and between assistants. So what's worth paying for? A monthly check, and work on the pages behind it.

What You're Paying Someone to Do

Call it AI SEO, GEO or AEO, the work underneath is the same five jobs. Only the first one is new.

The job	What it looks like	What you should see each month	Could you do it yourself?
Check the answers	Your customers' questions asked in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google's AI answers	Who was named, which pages were cited, dated	Yes, with a spreadsheet and an hour a week
Fix the sources	Your Google Business Profile, website, directories and booking listings saying the same thing	The listings changed, and why	Mostly
Get onto the lists it cites	The "best clinics in Canggu" guides and directories the answers quote. Most sell their places	Which lists were cited, which ones you're on, what each one costs	Yes, but the budget call is yours
Write answer pages	One page that answers one customer question in plain words, with facts a reader can check	The page, live on your site	If you write well in English
Technical minutes	Search bots allowed in robots.txt and by your host or CDN, schema kept current	A line in the report	Ask whoever built your site

The check is the job you can't skip. Without it, nobody knows if the other four worked, the person you're paying included.

You can run the check by hand, or pay for an AI visibility tracker. Those ask a set list of questions again and again, from a location you choose, and log how often you're named or cited.

The sources matter more than any trick. BrightLocal looked at about 200,000 local prompts, and websites were 42% of the sources cited. Google Business Profiles were 28.5%.

So the dull fixes count. The same name, hours, prices and address everywhere, and a page that answers the question in words an assistant can read.

Then there are the lists.

For a lot of questions, ChatGPT leans on "best of" articles, and many of them sell their places. A few will add you for free, but they publish those lists to make money.

Paying for a place buys you a line in a source, not a spot in the answer. So ask whoever you hire which lists get cited for your questions, and who pays for any placement.

There's no secret code either. Google says there are "no additional requirements" to appear in AI Overviews or AI Mode, and no special schema to add.

One technical line does matter. OpenAI says sites that block its search crawler, OAI-SearchBot, "will not be shown in ChatGPT search answers". Your host or CDN also has to let OpenAI's crawler through, so check both.

That's the check I run in AI Visibility: the same questions in four assistants every month, and the months you're not named go in the report too.

Whoever you talk to, ask which of the five jobs they'll do each month. If the answer is vague, so is the work.

What 24 AI Answers Showed Me

So on 24 October I put eight hiring questions to ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini, six in English and two in Bahasa Indonesia.

That gave 24 answers. Three named nobody at all, and the other 21 named 36 different sellers between them.

What I counted	Result
Different sellers named	36
Named by all three assistants	6
Named only once	20
ChatGPT's most-named seller	7 of ChatGPT's 8 answers, and none of the other 16

The assistants don't agree. ChatGPT's favourite wasn't named once by Perplexity or Gemini.

Look at where the names come from, too. Gemini showed its sources, and they were "best GEO agencies in Bali" lists. The two on Google's page one were each written by an agency that ranked itself first.

The answers got details wrong as well. ChatGPT quoted one seller's monthly plan at IDR 3 million. That seller's own page says IDR 4,700,000 a month.

So what does this prove? Who you hear about depends on which assistant you ask, and on the day. It says nothing about who does good work.

So when someone offers to get you named, ask which questions they'll count, and from where.

How I Asked

• When and where: 24 October 2026, from Bali, with a new chat for every question, logged out. Perplexity asked me to sign up after four questions, so I asked its last four signed in, in Incognito mode.
• What I wrote down: every seller named, and the sources shown beside them. I don't name them here, because one day's answers aren't a recommendation.
• Its limits: it's one day from one place. A logged-in customer elsewhere will see other names.

Here are the eight questions, exactly as I typed them.

#	Question	Language
1	i need to find someone that rank me in chatgpt and also live in bali	English
2	who can get my business recommended by ChatGPT in Bali	English
3	AI SEO agency Bali	English
4	GEO specialist Canggu	English
5	how much does AI SEO cost in Bali	English
6	best freelancer for ChatGPT visibility in Bali	English
7	jasa GEO Bali (GEO services in Bali)	Bahasa Indonesia
8	jasa agar bisnis muncul di ChatGPT Bali (a service to get my business into ChatGPT, Bali)	Bahasa Indonesia

Does It Matter That They Live in Bali?

The search asked for someone who lives here. The assistants don't check that.

Of the four sellers named most often, two are run from Jakarta, with an office or a Maps pin in Bali. ChatGPT even told me to check whether one consultant "currently lives in Bali".

So where does the address help? Here are the five jobs again, plus the one only a local can do well.

The job	Where living in Bali helps	Where it makes no difference
Check the answers	Asking from a Bali connection, like a customer who's already here	Most tourists ask from home before they fly, so the check should also run from Melbourne or Singapore. A tracker does that from anywhere
Fix the sources	Knowing which Indonesian directories your customers open	The edits are all made online
Get onto the lists it cites	Knowing the Canggu and Ubud guides people really read, and meeting the people who write them	Seeing which lists get cited
Write answer pages	Photos taken at your place, prices and hours checked at your front desk	The writing
Technical minutes	None	All of it
Test your booking path	Calling, walking in and messaging your WhatsApp in Bahasa, the way a customer would	A test message works from anywhere, a walk-in doesn't

Language matters more than the address. The two Bahasa questions brought up 15 sellers, and 6 of them never came up in English.

If some of your customers ask in Bahasa, whoever you hire should check in Bahasa too, and write your pages in it.

And if they do live here, use it. Ask them to book with you as a customer before they touch anything else.

What It Costs in Bali

The assistants can't agree on a price either. Gemini said IDR 1 million to 9.2 million a month, Perplexity 5 to 20 million, and ChatGPT anything from 1.5 million to over 25 million.

So I read the sellers' own pricing pages instead. Here are three that publish prices in rupiah, and mine.

Who	One-off	Monthly	Minimum term	The monthly covers
An agency in Denpasar	IDR 1,500,000 check, IDR 4,500,000 with fixes	IDR 4,700,000/month	Not stated	10 questions tracked daily
An agency in Central Java	IDR 4,500,000 to 50,000,000 set-up	IDR 600,000 to 50,000,000/month	3 to 12 months	More questions as the tier rises
A Singapore agency selling in Indonesia	None	IDR 7,500,000/month	6 months	SEO and AI answers together
Mersa	IDR 6,000,000 (US$370) audit	IDR 4,800,000/month (US$300)	1 month, then 30 days' notice	4 assistants, sources fixed, 1 answer page

All four prices were read on each seller's own page on 24 October 2026.

The cheapest monthly tier and the dearest are about 80 times apart. That gap is the amount of work, so ask what a person does each month at your price.

Asking 24 questions and writing down the names took me an evening. Below IDR 1 million a month, someone is doing less than that, or a tool is doing it.

The term matters as much as the price. Two of the three want three months or more up front, so you pay for months before you know the check is being done.

Every price we charge is on our pricing page, with the payment terms.

Eight Questions to Ask Before You Pay

Price tells you little. These eight tell you more, and a good provider answers every one without having to think about it.

1. Which questions will you check, and in which assistants? Ask for the list in writing. It should be your customers' questions in their own words, in Bahasa too if they ask in Bahasa.
2. Can I see an example of the work? A sample report, a case study, or the check run on their own business. You want dates, questions, who got named and which pages got cited.
3. Where will you ask from? A clinic whose patients fly in from Perth needs the answers they see in Perth, not only the ones from a Canggu cafe.
4. Which sources did you fix last month, and how? You want the listing, the change and the date.
5. What won't you promise? The honest answer is that you'll be named. Nobody controls that.
6. Who owns the accounts? Your Google Business Profile, your pages and the log should all stay yours when you stop.
7. What's the minimum term, and the notice? Know how you leave before you start.
8. Who does the work each month? A name you can message, and whether the writing is done by a person.

Then walk away if you hear any of these.

• "Guaranteed #1 in ChatGPT." There's no fixed #1 to guarantee, as the first section showed.
• "We submit your business to ChatGPT." Ask what they submit, and where. The answers come from pages and listings already online.
• llms.txt sold as the product. It's a small file, and Google has said it doesn't support it. Here's why paying for llms.txt won't get you named.

A Five-Minute Test

You can check a seller before the first call, without asking them anything.

• Ask ChatGPT and Perplexity for their kind of service in Bali, the way a customer would, and see who comes up.
• Open their Google Business Profile. The name, hours and address should match their website.
• Open their robots.txt (their domain, then /robots.txt). If it blocks OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT search can't show their own pages. Ours is above, with every AI crawler allowed.
• Find one answer page on their site: a page that answers one question in plain words. They're about to sell you that.

A seller whose own site fails these will do the same to yours.

What You Can Do Before Hiring Anyone

You can run the check yourself this week. It's how I got the 24 answers above, and the 36 behind which aesthetic clinics in Bali the assistants name.

1. Write five questions the way your customers ask them, as whole sentences: "My tooth hurts and I'm in Seminyak. Which dentist is open right now and not too expensive?"
2. Add one in Bahasa if locals book you.
3. Ask each one in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google, logged out or in a private window, with a new chat every time.
4. Write down who got named and which sources showed beside them.
5. Do it again next month, with the same questions.

A log can be this plain. These rows are made up, to show the format.

Date	Question	Assistant	Were you named?	Sources shown
24 Oct	Which dentist in Seminyak is open now?	ChatGPT	Yes, 2nd of 4	Google Maps, a "best dentists in Bali" guide
24 Oct	Which dentist in Seminyak is open now?	Gemini	No	None shown
24 Oct	dokter gigi Seminyak buka sekarang	Perplexity	Yes, 1st of 3	Your website, a directory

Three months of that tells you more than any sales call. The sources column is your to-do list: the guides, directories and pages the assistants trust for your questions.

Then fix what you can. Make your Google Business Profile match your website, and check the crawler line from the second section with whoever runs your site.

Where Mersa Fits

We run Mersa from Bali, and the monthly check described above is our AI Visibility plan, at IDR 4,800,000/month (US$300).

Every month	What you see
Your questions asked in four assistants	The log, with the months you're not named in it too
The cited sources fixed	Which listing changed, and why
One answer page written	The page live on your site, with its schema
Three competitors compared	Who got named instead of you, and from which sources

It starts with one month, then runs with 30 days' notice. We won't promise you'll be named, and the report says so when you're not.

If you'd rather see where you stand first, the marketing audit checks 13 places in 7 working days, with 90 AI answers among them. Here's how it differs from an SEO audit.

Follow me on LinkedIn if this helped. Fair warning: I think anyone selling you a ChatGPT ranking should show you how they'll measure it first.

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