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 | studentaid.gov | 5/5 | 2.1K | $5.6K |
| 2 | consumerfinance.gov | 4/5 | 1.2K | $3.4K |
| 3 | mohela.com | 5/5 | 823 | $2.2K |
| 4 | aidvantage.com | 5/5 | 566 | $1.5K |
| 5 | nerdwallet.com | 5/5 | 412 | $1.1K |
| 6 | nelnet.com | 4/5 | 309 | $842 |
| 7 | bankrate.com | 5/5 | 226 | $617 |
| 8 | credible.com | 5/5 | 175 | $477 |
| 9 | studentloanhero.com | 4/5 | 134 | $365 |
| 10 | ed.gov | 3/5 | 103 | $280 |
| 11 | lendingtree.com | 3/5 | 82 | $224 |
| 12 | mygreatlakes.org | 3/5 | 62 | $168 |
| 13 | studentaid.ed.gov | 3/5 | 51 | $140 |
| 14 | studentloanplanner.com | 4/5 | 41 | $112 |
| 15 | sofi.com | 3/5 | 31 | $84 |
| 16 | salliemae.com | 2/5 | 26 | $70 |
| 17 | finaid.org | 3/5 | 21 | $56 |
| 18 | sallie.com | 2/5 | 15 | $42 |
| 19 | navient.com | 2/5 | 12 | $33 |
| 20 | educationdata.org | 2/5 | 10 | $28 |
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 →