Charleston Photographer Paul Cheney

Charleston Photographer Paul Cheney describes itself simply: "We custom quote each project and try to work within your budget whenever possible." To AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity, though, it is barely visible: it scores 4.7 out of 10.

On the page it is passable on basic crawler access and partial sitemap and link coverage. What holds it back is a heading structure that lays out what it offers, a clearly stated business identity, structured data describing the business and credibility markers like credentials or reviews.

Away from its own site, 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. 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.