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batesdesign
batesdesign.com · Professional Services
Somewhat visible. AI bots can read batesdesign, but it is missing the structured signals that push citation rate above competitors.
AI engines read this profile 2 times
Claude · Apple Intelligence
#105,568 of 496,701 in Professional Services for AI visibility
5.3
/10
AEO Score
About batesdesign
from our crawl and measurement
batesdesign describes itself simply: "Bates Design is a branding and graphic design firm located in Charleston, SC, specializing in industrial and business to business marketing communications." Its AI visibility score is 5.2 out of 10: the engines can find it, but they do not have much to hold on to.
Our crawl found structured data on the page (WebSite), an llms.txt file for AI models and a sitemap. It is missing a heading structure that lays out what it offers.
AI crawlers have visited 2 times in our tracking, including ClaudeBot (Anthropic) and Applebot (Siri).
The 6 signals AI reads
Higher is better · 0-10
Structured Data
3
Organization / LocalBusiness JSON-LD that AI can read.
Content Structure
6
Clear headings and answer-style content.
Entity Clarity
6
How clearly your brand identity reads to AI.
E-E-A-T Signals
Experience, Expertise, Authority, Trust
6
Experience, Expertise, Authority, Trust markers.
Technical AEO
10
robots.txt, llms.txt, and AI-bot crawl access.
AI Discoverability
5
Sitemaps and entity links AI can follow.
Off-page authority
How the web signals your brand to AI
Backlinks
8
Inbound links from other sites.
Domain Authority
0
Little domain authority yet.
Reference Presence
0
Not in AI knowledge graphs yet.
News & Press
0
No press coverage found yet.
Community
0
No community discussion yet.
Social Mentions
0
No social discussion found yet.
What this score means
Your AEO score measures whether AI search engines - ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini - can actually read your site and cite it in answers. Roughly two-thirds of sites are invisible to them. At 5.3/10, batesdesign has a working base to build on - fixable, and the signals above are where to start.
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Source & Attribution
Scored by Engagemii on August 10, 2026. Methodology: engagemii.com/aeo/methodology
Source URL: https://engagemii.com/aeo/brands/batesdesign
Cite this score: Engagemii (2026). "AEO Score for batesdesign." Retrieved from https://engagemii.com/aeo/brands/batesdesign
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