#2,533 OF 1,951,137 IN MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT
SCORE HISTORY BEGINS 2026-09-18
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AI Visibility Scorecard
CONTENTION
contention.substack.com · Media & Entertainment
Well-positioned for AI search. The breakdown below shows where CONTENTION is still leaving points on the table.
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In the Engagemii AEO index
#2,533 of 1,951,137 in Media & Entertainment for AI visibility
8
AEO Visibility
iVisible · 7.6/10
5
Muse Index Score
iAI agent readiness
Basic · 5/100
0
AI Adoption
iNone detected · 0/100
About CONTENTION
from our crawl and measurement
CONTENTION describes itself simply: "Rapid dissent business news. Click to read CONTENTION, by Contention News, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers." To AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity it is one of the more visible businesses we measure, scoring 7.6 out of 10.
Our crawl found a sitemap. It is missing structured data describing the business, an llms.txt file and a heading structure that lays out what it offers.
The 6 signals AI reads
Higher is better · 0-10
Structured Data
1
Organization / LocalBusiness JSON-LD that AI can read.
Content Structure
2
Clear headings and answer-style content.
Entity Clarity
4
How clearly your brand identity reads to AI.
E-E-A-T Signals
Experience, Expertise, Authority, Trust
1
Experience, Expertise, Authority, Trust markers.
Technical AEO
4
robots.txt, llms.txt, and AI-bot crawl access.
AI Discoverability
2
Sitemaps and entity links AI can follow.
Off-page authority
How the web signals your brand to AI
Backlinks
10
Inbound links from other sites.
Domain Authority
8
Established authority for your domain.
Reference Presence
10
Recognized in AI knowledge graphs.
News & Press
10
Press and news coverage.
Community
10
Forum and community discussion.
Social Mentions
10
Social discussion and mentions.
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 7.6/10, CONTENTION 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 September 18, 2026. Methodology: engagemii.com/aeo/methodology
Source URL: https://engagemii.com/aeo/brands/contention-substack
Cite this score: Engagemii (2026). "AEO Score for CONTENTION." Retrieved from https://engagemii.com/aeo/brands/contention-substack
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