SmithTakes Kerry Smith: SmithTrends blog for social justice

SmithTakes.com describes itself simply: "The world needs conversations. Too often, one person yells Democrat, another yells Republican, and the conversation takes a backseat catch-phrases that masquerade as wisdom." When AI engines look at it, they find little to work with. It scores 4.8 out of 10.

On its own pages the site does well on crawler access and the files AI engines look for. It is passable on a workable page structure, a partly stated business identity and partial sitemap and link coverage. What holds it back is structured data describing the business 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. None of that can be fixed on the page: it has to be earned.

AI crawlers have visited once in our tracking, including ClaudeBot (Anthropic).