Visual Studio

Visual Studio is a business whose own site puts it this way: "Visual Studio dev tools & services make app development easy for any developer, on any platform & language. Develop with our code editor or IDE anywhere for free." To AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity it is one of the more visible businesses we measure, scoring 8.2 out of 10.

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

Away from its own site, other sites link to it, the domain reads as established, AI engines recognise it as a distinct business, it turns up in press coverage, people discuss it in places AI engines read and it comes up on Reddit.

AI crawlers have visited 7 times in our tracking, including Applebot (Siri), OAI-SearchBot (OpenAI) and GPTBot (ChatGPT). It does link out to several social profiles, which helps engines tie the brand together.