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AI Visibility Scorecard
York Daily Record
ydr.com · newspapers
Somewhat visible. AI bots can read York Daily Record, but it is missing the structured signals that push citation rate above competitors.
AI engines read this profile 2 times
Claude
#19,361 of 1,862,090 in Media & Entertainment for AI visibility
6.8
/10
AEO Score
About York Daily Record
from our crawl and measurement
"Read the latest crime, entertainment, food, traffic and weather news from York, Pa., and York County's breaking news leader: the York Daily Record and ydr.com." That is how York Daily Record introduces itself. Its AI visibility score is 6.8 out of 10: the engines can find it, but they do not have much to hold on to.
On the page it is passable on some structured data and a partly stated business identity. What holds it back is credibility markers like credentials or reviews, the technical files AI engines look for, such as llms.txt or an open robots.txt, sitemaps and entity links AI can follow and a heading structure that lays out what it offers.
Off the page, other sites link to it, the domain reads as established, it turns up in press coverage and it comes up on Reddit. There is some, but not much, sign that there is little discussion of it. Beyond that, AI engines do not yet recognise it as a distinct business.
AI crawlers have visited 2 times in our tracking, including ClaudeBot (Anthropic).
The 6 signals AI reads
Higher is better · 0-10
Structured Data
5
Organization / LocalBusiness JSON-LD that AI can read.
Content Structure
1
Clear headings and answer-style content.
Entity Clarity
5
How clearly your brand identity reads to AI.
E-E-A-T Signals
Experience, Expertise, Authority, Trust
3
Experience, Expertise, Authority, Trust markers.
Technical AEO
3
robots.txt, llms.txt, and AI-bot crawl access.
AI Discoverability
4
Sitemaps and entity links AI can follow.
Off-page authority
How the web signals your brand to AI
Backlinks
10
Inbound links from other sites.
Domain Trust
5
Established authority for your domain.
Entity Presence
0
Not in AI knowledge graphs yet.
News Mentions
7
Press and news coverage.
Community
4
Forum and community discussion.
7
Reddit mentions and discussion.
What this score means
Your AEO score measures whether AI search engines - ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini - can actually read your site and cite it in answers. Roughly two-thirds of sites are invisible to them. At 6.8/10, York Daily Record has a working base to build on - fixable, and the signals above are where to start.
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Source & Attribution
Scored by Engagemii on August 2, 2026. Methodology: engagemii.com/aeo/methodology
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