What is the AEO readiness score for substack.com?

substack.com currently holds an Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) composite score of 29/100 (Grade F), with AI Crawler Access at 60/100, JSON-LD Schema Graph at 29/100, Semantic Structure at 45/100, and Direct Answer Extractability at 20/100.

How can substack.com improve its citations in ChatGPT Search and Perplexity?

substack.com can reach a 100/100 AEO score by allowing OAI-SearchBot, GPTBot, PerplexityBot, and ClaudeBot in /robots.txt, publishing a machine-readable /llms.txt manifest, and deploying a linked JSON-LD @graph with Wikidata sameAs entity disambiguation.

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substack.com AEO Report

substack.com achieved an Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) composite score of 29/100 (Grade F) when evaluated for AI crawler permissions, JSON-LD knowledge graph disambiguation, and 40–60 word direct answer extractability across ChatGPT Search, Perplexity AI, and Anthropic Claude.

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Grade

4-Pillar Diagnostic Breakdown

Technical Score Breakdown for substack.com

AI Crawler Access 25% Weight

60/100

AI bot access restricted or missing /llms.txt

Schema AST Graph 30% Weight

29/100

Missing Wikidata sameAs entities & @graph linkage

Direct Answers 25% Weight

20/100

Direct answer formatting needs 40-60 word optimization

Semantic Outline 20% Weight

45/100

Evaluated H1-H3 heading hierarchy and HTML token signal-to-noise ratio.

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Hi team — our website (substack.com) currently scores 29/100 (Grade F) on the AI Search & Perplexity Readiness benchmark:
https://aeoauditing.com/report/substack.com

• Primary Technical Bottleneck: JSON-LD Schema Graph & Wikidata Entity Disambiguation
• Projected Score After Fix: 98/100 (Grade A+)

Can we unlock the $2 AI-synthesized /llms-full.txt, Competitor Outrank HTML, and JSON-LD @graph Fix Kit on that report page and deploy it today?

We audited substack.com for AI Search & Answer Engine Optimization (ChatGPT Search, Perplexity & Claude):

• Composite AEO Score: 29/100 (Grade F)
• AI Crawler Access: 60/100
• JSON-LD Schema Graph: 0/100
• Direct Answer Extractability: 20/100

Biggest gap: JSON-LD Schema Graph & Wikidata Entity Disambiguation (0/100).

Full benchmark report: https://aeoauditing.com/report/substack.com

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1. AI-Synthesized /llms-full.txt & /llms.txt Corpus: Synthesized from substack.com subpages with extracted pricing & product specs ready for RAG ingestion.
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// Preview: Generated JSON-LD @graph for substack.com

{"@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [

{"@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://substack.com/#organization", "url": "https://substack.com", ...},

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]}

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