How KQED appears in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews
A free AI-visibility snapshot for KQED (kqed.org) — a public-radio newsroom based in San Francisco, CA.
Overall AI visibility
kqed.org
64/100
Grade D
Across the four AI engines we audit (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews), KQED is rarely cited by the engines we tested, with an overall 64/100 score. The largest open lift is on the engines below where KQED's articles are missing structured signals other public-radio newsroom sites of the same size already publish.
ChatGPT
77
Crawler: GPTBot
GPTBot reaches the site and recent articles surface in citations.
Perplexity
58
Crawler: PerplexityBot
PerplexityBot allowed but author entities aren't strongly linked.
Claude
39
Crawler: ClaudeBot
ClaudeBot blocked or anthropic-ai variant disallowed in robots.txt.
Google AI Overviews
83
Crawler: Google-Extended
Google AI Overviews include the site for breaking and explainer queries.
What KQED can ship this week
- Add an XML sitemap entry for every article within an hour of publish so crawl latency for AI bots stays under 60 minutes.
- Add a public reporter bio page for every byline with `Person` schema, beats, and a sample of recent articles.
- Allow `GPTBot`, `PerplexityBot`, `ClaudeBot`, `anthropic-ai`, `Google-Extended`, and `Applebot-Extended` in `https://kqed.org/robots.txt`.
- Cross-link each article from at least two evergreen topic pages so AI engines can find it after the homepage rotates it off.
- Publish a `/llms.txt` at the root that maps your beats, reporter bios, and the canonical URL for each topic.
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