Deb's Back Yard Art

Deb's Back Yard Art is a Chelsea, Michigan business whose own site puts it this way: "Deb's Back Yard Art offers a hand-created collection of nature inspired greeting cards. All cards include an envelope and are protected in a clear plastic sleeve." To AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity, though, it is barely visible: it scores 3.6 out of 10.

On the page itself the strengths are clear: a clearly stated business identity and crawler access and the files AI engines look for. It is passable on some structured data, a workable page structure and partial sitemap and link coverage. What holds it back is credibility markers like credentials or reviews.

Off the page there is only faint evidence that only a handful of 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. Those are earned elsewhere on the web, not fixed on the site itself.

AI crawlers have visited once in our tracking, including ClaudeBot (Anthropic). There is not much on the page to read either, about 146 words.