# Find what people ask ChatGPT about your category > Ask your agent which prompts people put to ChatGPT about your category. Manifold searches an index of observed AI answers and returns each prompt with a volume estimate and the sites the answer cited, at 31 credits plus 31 for each 100 prompts. "Keyword research tool" matched 3,709 prompts, and 13 of the top 20 answers cited a Google domain; "seo mcp" was too new to match. | | | | --- | --- | | Job | The questions buyers ask AI, and who gets cited | | Tool | aeo_search_prompts | | Credits | 73 for the two searches in this run | | Engines | ChatGPT and Google's AI Overview | | Run on | "seo mcp" and "keyword research tool", 27 October 2026 | ## The prompts We asked our own agent, Claude Code connected to Manifold, on 27 October 2026: ```text What do people ask ChatGPT about SEO MCP servers? List the prompts with their volume and the sites ChatGPT cites in its answers. ``` Then, when that came back off topic: ```text Try the wider topic, "keyword research tool". ``` ## The calls | Step | Tool | Input | Credits | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | [`aeo_search_prompts`](https://www.manifoldmcp.com/docs/tools/aeo#aeo_search_prompts) | "seo mcp", up to 20 prompts | 35 | | 2 | [`aeo_search_prompts`](https://www.manifoldmcp.com/docs/tools/aeo#aeo_search_prompts) | "keyword research tool", 20 prompts | 38 | Prompts people have asked ChatGPT or Google's AI Overview on a topic, from the provider's index of answers it has observed: each with a volume estimate, the domains the answer cited, the searches the engine ran and a preview of the answer. The volume is a People Also Ask proxy, not ChatGPT's own logs. It costs 31 credits plus 31 for each 100 prompts. ## What came back **"seo mcp"** returned 10 prompts, and none of them is about SEO MCP servers: they ask whether ChatGPT can build a WordPress site, whether Webflow is still relevant and what a keyword tool costs. **"keyword research tool"** matched 3,709 prompts. The top 20 by volume, of which these 10: | Prompt | Volume | Sites cited | | --- | ---: | --- | | is seo dead now with ai? | 3,789 | pewresearch.org, developers.google.com, arxiv.org | | are backlinks still relevant in 2026? | 1,096 | developers.google.com, ahrefs.com | | what are the 4 types of keywords? | 1,072 | seo.com, searchengineland.com | | what does an seo company do? | 909 | developers.google.com | | what are the top 5 seo strategies? | 690 | developers.google.com, bing.com | | can i do seo myself for free? | 350 | support.google.com, developers.google.com | | which keyword tool is most accurate? | 225 | help.openai.com | | what is the best free seo tool? | 200 | ahrefs.com, search.google.com | | what is the most accurate seo tool? | 189 | developers.google.com, help.ahrefs.com, semrush.com | | is google keyword planner still free? | 171 | support.google.com | ## What the agent concluded - **A new category has no prompts yet.** The index holds what it has seen people ask. "SEO MCP" is too new for it, so it matched loosely and returned nothing usable for 35 credits. Start with the wider topic your buyers already ask about. - **Google's own pages win the citations.** 13 of the 20 answers cite a Google domain: Search Central, Search Console help or Google's blog. Ahrefs is cited in 5 and Semrush in 1. - **ChatGPT read one question as being about itself.** "Which keyword tool is most accurate?" was answered about ChatGPT's own web search tool, citing OpenAI's help pages. A prompt that reads two ways is a gap a clear page can fill. - **Free is the buying question.** Three of the ten ask what is free, and the answer to "what is the best free SEO tool?" names Ahrefs' free tier first. - **Three of the 20 are noise.** Aprons, towing and jobs from home matched the topic loosely. Read the list before you track it. ## Run it on yours ```text What do people ask ChatGPT about {your category}? List the prompts by volume with the sites cited, and tell me which ones we could be the answer to. ``` To see what the engines answer now, and whether they name you, run the prompts that matter with [`aeo_run_ai_answers`](https://www.manifoldmcp.com/docs/tools/aeo#aeo_run_ai_answers), as in [our AI visibility baseline](https://www.manifoldmcp.com/use-cases/ai-visibility-baseline). ## Questions ### Is the volume ChatGPT's real search data? No. ChatGPT publishes no query logs. The volume is the provider's estimate from People Also Ask, useful for ranking prompts against each other, not as a count of people. ### Why did a narrow topic return unrelated prompts? The index holds prompts it has seen answered. For a term too new to be in it, the match is loose. Search the wider topic your buyers already ask about. ### How is this different from running AI answers? This finds prompts people have asked. Running AI answers asks the engines your chosen prompts now, and shows whether they name or cite you. ### Can I search by my domain instead? Yes. Give a domain and the tool returns prompts whose answers cite it. ## Next - [AI visibility MCP server](https://www.manifoldmcp.com/mcp/ai-visibility) - [AEO tools in the docs](https://www.manifoldmcp.com/docs/tools/aeo) - [Measure your AI visibility](https://www.manifoldmcp.com/use-cases/ai-visibility-baseline) Published 27 October 2026. Updated 27 October 2026.