Comic Book Curious

Comic Book Curious is a business whose own site puts it this way: "Stories, essays, reviews, and conversations from the human interest side of nerd culture." To AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity, though, it is barely visible: it scores 3.2 out of 10.

On the page itself the strengths are clear: a clear heading structure and sitemaps and entity links AI can follow. What holds it back is a clearly stated business identity, structured data describing the business, credibility markers like credentials or reviews and the technical files AI engines look for, such as llms.txt or an open robots.txt.

Off the page, almost no other sites link to it, 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. Those are earned elsewhere on the web, not fixed on the site itself.

It does link out to several social profiles, which helps engines tie the brand together.