The Native States Project

The Native States Project is a business whose own site puts it this way: "We hope to showcase the rich culture and varied customs of tribes by region, state or tribal entity." To AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity it is close to invisible, scoring 2.5 out of 10.

On the page itself the strengths are clear: a clearly stated business identity. It is passable on some structured data and basic crawler access. What holds it back is sitemaps and entity links AI can follow, a heading structure that lays out what it offers and 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 2 times in our tracking, including ClaudeBot (Anthropic) and Applebot (Siri). There is not much on the page to read either, about 112 words.