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AI Visibility Scorecard
The way it is
bennettvaughn.com · Media & Entertainment
At 2.9/10, The way it is is close to invisible in AI search today. Most assistants will not cite it when asked about your category - fixable, and the signals below show exactly where to start.
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#1,664,945 of 1,880,232 in Media & Entertainment for AI visibility
2.9
/10
AEO Score
About The way it is
from our crawl and measurement
The way it is is a business whose own site puts it this way: "Skip to content The way it is This just in to Action News Scroll down to content Posts Posted on February 14, 2025Updating post from 2017 http://www.bennettvaughn.com/november-the-tenth/." As far as answer engines are concerned it may as well not exist yet: 2.9 out of 10.
The site is missing structured data describing the business, an llms.txt file and a sitemap.
The 6 signals AI reads
Higher is better · 0-10
Structured Data
1
Organization / LocalBusiness JSON-LD that AI can read.
Content Structure
7
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
3
Experience, Expertise, Authority, Trust markers.
Technical AEO
4
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
0
No inbound links found yet.
Domain Trust
0
Little domain authority yet.
Entity Presence
0
Not in AI knowledge graphs yet.
News Mentions
0
No press coverage found yet.
Community
0
No community discussion yet.
0
No Reddit mentions 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 2.9/10, The way it is is crawlable but under-signaled - fixable, and the signals above are where to start.
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The exact fixes for The way it is
Which AI engines already crawl you
Weekly ChatGPT & Claude citation tracking
Why your brand doesn't show up in ChatGPT answers (and how to fix it)
ChatGPT doesn't crawl the web like Google does. When someone asks Claude about the best project management tools, the model isn't searching your website in real-time. It's pulling from training data that stopped months or years ago.
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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/bennettvaughn
Cite this score: Engagemii (2026). "AEO Score for The way it is." Retrieved from https://engagemii.com/aeo/brands/bennettvaughn
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