This is a problem we experience with our own niche SaaS product. We have been in business for about 10 years, but asking any LLM about recommendations in this niche will not mention our tool at all. If we ask ”why don’t you meantion X” - they say that ”oh, X is also a very reputable and good candidate”

Some of those ”best software sites” has reached out to us with an offer where we can then pay them an annual fee depending on which position we would like.

It feels so wrong - will this continue or will the LLMs learn to ignore them?

Something similar happened to me, a few months after refusing the "offer" that same site had an article mentioning our product but it was all fabricated negative stuff.