Author of The Forgotten Colony and Us Before Them

Author of The Forgotten Colony and Us Before Them is a business whose own site puts it this way: "Zach Croft expects a fresh start on Alpha Cen. After leading a suicide mission to Mars, surviving a barrage of world-ending solar flares, and watching his best friend's dropship explode." When AI engines look at it, they find little to work with. It scores 4.0 out of 10.

On its own pages the site does well on a clear heading structure and crawler access and the files AI engines look for. It is passable on a partly stated business identity and partial sitemap and link coverage. What holds it back is structured data describing the business and credibility markers like credentials or reviews.

Off the page there is only faint evidence that only a handful of sites link to it and the domain is only lightly established. Beyond that, 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).