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 | 4/5 | 30 | $99 |
| 2 | bestcolleges.com | 4/5 | 18 | $59 |
| 3 | study.com | 4/5 | 12 | $39 |
| 4 | usnews.com | 4/5 | 8 | $27 |
| 5 | edx.org | 3/5 | 6 | $19 |
| 6 | niche.com | 3/5 | 5 | $14 |
| 7 | asu.edu | 4/5 | 3 | $10 |
| 8 | purdue.edu | 3/5 | 3 | $8 |
| 9 | onlineu.com | 3/5 | 2 | $6 |
| 10 | cappex.com | 2/5 | 2 | $4 |
| 11 | degreequery.com | 2/5 | 1 | $3 |
| 12 | collegefactual.com | 2/5 | 1 | $3 |
| 13 | gradschools.com | 2/5 | 1 | $2 |
| 14 | liberty.edu | 3/5 | 1 | $2 |
| 15 | umass.edu | 2/5 | 0 | $1 |
| 16 | snhu.edu | 3/5 | 0 | $1 |
| 17 | wgu.edu | 2/5 | 0 | $1 |
| 18 | capella.edu | 2/5 | 0 | $0 |
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 →