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Why isn't my Teachable course showing up in AI answers?

Short answer

Your lessons are behind a login and can never be cited, so the entire citable surface is your public course sales pages — which are persuasion-shaped and give assistants nothing to quote. Publishing the answers publicly, on a domain you control, is the only route that works.

What Teachable lets you control

AI visibility is mostly decided by what the platform will and won't let you change. Here's where Teachable stands.

Sitemap
https://yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml — Teachable serves a sitemap covering your public school pages; course lessons are gated and excluded.
robots.txt
Managed by the platform. Teachable manages robots.txt. Per-crawler rules aren't available.
Rendering
Public sales and school pages are server-rendered.
Hiding a page
Limited. Public pages are indexable, gated lessons are not — there's little per-page control in between.
Custom head code
Code snippets are available on higher plans, sitewide, which is where JSON-LD goes.
llms.txt
No root file access.

What stops a Teachable school being cited

  • Course lessons are gated. No amount of SEO changes that.
  • Teachable's public pages are limited in number, so your citable surface is genuinely small.
  • Head code is a higher-plan feature, so schema isn't available on entry tiers.
  • Default schools on teachable.com subdomains send any authority to Teachable.
  • Sales pages repeat the same benefits language every course sales page uses — nothing distinguishing to quote.

How to make your Teachable school quotable by AI assistants

  1. 1Connect a custom domain to the school.
  2. 2Publish the answers your course teaches as public content — on a blog you control, even if that's a separate site.
  3. 3Give each public Teachable page an H2 question and a one-sentence answer at the top.
  4. 4Add FAQ JSON-LD through code snippets if your plan allows it.
  5. 5Verify the domain in Bing Webmaster Tools and push URLs through IndexNow.

Check what ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity actually see when they fetch your page — crawler access, extractable answers, structured data — then fix the gaps we find.

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Teachable and AI search: common questions

Can ChatGPT see my Teachable lessons?

No. Lessons require a login and crawlers are unauthenticated. Only your public school and sales pages are readable.

Can I add schema markup in Teachable?

Only on plans that include code snippets, and only sitewide. Entry plans have no head access.

Where should course creators publish for AI visibility?

On a domain they control, publicly. Gated platforms are for delivery; a public site is what gets cited.

Getting Teachable into Google is a different job

AI assistants and Google use different indexes and reward different things. The companion guide covers sitemaps, indexing settings, and crawl speed for Teachable.

Teachable indexing guide

Other platforms

Why isn't my Thinkific course showing up in AI answers?

Only your public landing pages are readable — the course player is gated — and landing pages sell rather than explain.

Why isn't my Kajabi course showing up in AI answers?

Course content sits behind a login, so it can never be crawled or cited — that's correct and expected.

Why isn't my Podia storefront showing up in AI answers?

Podia's public pages are readable, but a storefront is a list of products with short blurbs — there's nothing on it that answers a question, and that's what assistants cite.

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