A commercial recommendation prompt. We size how many people ask ChatGPT this from real search demand, then run it through ChatGPT to see which websites it recommends.
One of the 5 times we asked ChatGPT this, verbatim. The leaderboard below aggregates all 5 runs.
Aggregated across 5 runs (min 2/5 appearances). Estimated visits split the prompt's demand by rank. Sites matching the prompt's own brand are marked branded and excluded from the leaderboard.
| Rank | Website | Appears | Est. visits / mo | Est. value / mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | coursera.org | 5/5 | 503 | $1.8K |
| 3 | edx.org | 5/5 | 201 | $703 |
| 4 | study.com | 5/5 | 138 | $483 |
| 5 | usnews.com | 3/5 | 101 | $351 |
| 6 | edu.gov | 2/5 | 75 | $263 |
| 8 | topuniversities.com | 3/5 | 43 | $149 |
| 9 | bachelorsportal.com | 3/5 | 33 | $114 |
| 10 | cappex.com | 3/5 | 25 | $87 |
| 11 | timeshighereducation.com | 3/5 | 20 | $70 |
| 12 | collegeboard.org | 3/5 | 15 | $52 |
| 13 | capella.edu | 2/5 | 13 | $43 |
| 14 | niche.com | 2/5 | 10 | $35 |
| 15 | umass.edu | 2/5 | 8 | $26 |
| 16 | purdue.edu | 2/5 | 6 | $21 |
| 17 | harvard.edu | 3/5 | 5 | $17 |
| 18 | indeed.com | 2/5 | 4 | $13 |
| 19 | stanford.edu | 2/5 | 3 | $10 |
| 20 | asu.edu | 2/5 | 3 | $8 |
ChatGPT doesn't publish prompts, so we don't show logged conversations. We measure real demand for this topic from Google search volume, scale it to ChatGPT's user base (on average about 1 ChatGPT user for every 8 Google searchers, a ratio that varies by topic), and run the prompt through ChatGPT 5 times to record which websites it recommends and in what order. Estimated visits split that demand across the recommended sites by a click-through-by-rank curve. Every number is a modeled estimate, not measured analytics. Full methodology →