Ben Severance

Ben Severance is a business whose own site puts it this way: "<p>Ben was once a photojournalist. He met a lot of beautiful people and won some shiny awards. It was fun for all involved. These are some of his photos that he couldn't leave behind.</p>." When AI engines look at it, they find little to work with. It scores 4.3 out of 10.

On the page it is passable on a partly stated business identity, a few credibility markers and basic crawler access. What holds it back is structured data describing the business, a heading structure that lays out what it offers and sitemaps and entity links AI can follow.

Off the page, other sites link to it. Beyond that, the domain does not yet read as established, AI engines do not yet recognise it as a distinct business, there is no press coverage to draw on, nobody is discussing it where AI engines look and it does not come up on Reddit. None of that can be fixed on the page: it has to be earned.

AI crawlers have visited once in our tracking, including ClaudeBot (Anthropic). There is not much on the page to read either, about 103 words.