Make-A-Ball

Make-A-Ball, based in Baltimore, Maryland, describes itself simply: "Make-A-Ball™ creates fully custom photo sports balls for teams, coaches, schools, and fans. From basketballs to footballs, we turn your images and logos into high-quality keepsakes." To AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity, though, it is barely visible: it scores 4.7 out of 10.

On the page itself the strengths are clear: a clearly stated business identity, crawler access and the files AI engines look for and sitemaps and entity links AI can follow. It is passable on a workable page structure and a few credibility markers. What holds it back is structured data describing the business.

Away from its own site, other sites link to it. There is some, but not much, sign that 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. Those are earned elsewhere on the web, not fixed on the site itself.

AI crawlers have visited once in our tracking, including ClaudeBot (Anthropic). It does link out to several social profiles, which helps engines tie the brand together. The business dates to 2010.

Company ·

Make-A-Ball

Website ·

makeaball.com

Industry ·

Sports & Recreation

Location ·

Baltimore, Maryland

Site status ·

Live (The website showed an active business site when last checked (Oct 31, 2026).)

Last scored ·

Aug 1, 2026