Shadows of Glory book by Dave Brown & Jeff Rodimer

Shadows of Glory book by Dave Brown & Jeff Rodimer describes itself simply: "Shadows of Glory features memorable and offbeat stories about World Series spanning from 1918, when World War I, the Spanish Flu, and Babe Ruth intersected, to 2016 when the Chicago Cubs." To AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity, though, it is barely visible: it scores 4.0 out of 10.

On the page itself the strengths are clear: a clear heading structure, a clearly stated business identity and crawler access and the files AI engines look for. It is passable on a few credibility markers and partial sitemap and link coverage. What holds it back is structured data describing the business.

Off the page, almost no other sites link to it, 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.

The site links to no social profiles, so there is nothing tying the brand to a wider presence.