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McKiness Excavating, Inc
mckiness.com · Home & Living
Borderline visible. AI bots can crawl McKiness Excavating, Inc, but the structured-data signals are thin - you are at real risk of being skipped when buyers ask ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity for a recommendation.
AI engines read this profile 4 times
Claude · Meta AI · Apple Intelligence
#824,479 of 1,244,256 in Home & Living for AI visibility
4
/10
AEO Score
About McKiness Excavating, Inc
from our crawl and measurement
"McKiness Excavating, Inc. has been the premier underground and grading contractor in North Iowa for over 80 years through three generations of leadership." That is how Home introduces itself. When AI engines look at it, they find little to work with. It scores 4.0 out of 10.
On the page it is passable on basic crawler access. What holds it back is a clearly stated business identity, sitemaps and entity links AI can follow, structured data describing the business, a heading structure that lays out what it offers and credibility markers like credentials or reviews.
Off the page, other 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. None of that can be fixed on the page: it has to be earned.
AI crawlers have visited 2 times in our tracking, including ClaudeBot (Anthropic). There is not much on the page to read either, about 75 words.
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
2
Experience, Expertise, Authority, Trust markers.
Technical AEO
5
robots.txt, llms.txt, and AI-bot crawl access.
AI Discoverability
3
Sitemaps and entity links AI can follow.
Off-page authority
How the web signals your brand to AI
Backlinks
8
Inbound links from other sites.
Domain Authority
0
Little domain authority yet.
Reference Presence
0
Not in AI knowledge graphs yet.
News & Press
0
No press coverage found yet.
Community
0
No community discussion yet.
Social Mentions
0
No social discussion found yet.
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 4/10, McKiness Excavating, Inc is crawlable but under-signaled - fixable, and the signals above are where to start.
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Source & Attribution
Scored by Engagemii on August 1, 2026. Methodology: engagemii.com/aeo/methodology
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