How Seattle Met appears in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews
A free AI-visibility snapshot for Seattle Met (seattlemet.com) — a city magazine based in Seattle, WA.
Overall AI visibility
seattlemet.com
70/100
Grade C
Across the four AI engines we audit (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews), Seattle Met is inconsistently cited by the engines we tested, with an overall 70/100 score. The largest open lift is on the engines below where Seattle Met's articles are missing structured signals other city magazine sites of the same size already publish.
ChatGPT
83
Crawler: GPTBot
GPTBot reaches the site and recent articles surface in citations.
Perplexity
64
Crawler: PerplexityBot
PerplexityBot allowed but author entities aren't strongly linked.
Claude
45
Crawler: ClaudeBot
ClaudeBot blocked or anthropic-ai variant disallowed in robots.txt.
Google AI Overviews
89
Crawler: Google-Extended
Google AI Overviews include the site for breaking and explainer queries.
What Seattle Met can ship this week
- 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.
- Mark paywalled body content with `cssSelector` exclusions but leave the lede + first 200 words free — that's what answer engines quote.
- Server-render every article. JS-only shells fail GPTBot's HTML fetch and quietly drop you out of citations.
- Add `<script type="application/ld+json">` NewsArticle schema with `speakable`, `dateline`, and `isAccessibleForFree` to every story page.
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