AI Authority Score™ Explained: What It Measures and Why It Matters

AI Authority Score blends backlink authority, topical depth, structured data quality, brand co-mentions in LLM training corpora, and downstream citation behavior. Here is how it is calculated, what it does not measure, and how to read the score on a publisher profile. The score is on a 0–100 scale and is recomputed weekly. Inputs include: - Referring domain quality and diversity - Topical concentration (a Travel publisher should rank for travel topics) - Schema.org coverage and validity - Brand co-occurrence in well-known AI training corpora - Observed citation behavior in major AI answer engines A score above 80 indicates a publisher that is consistently retrieved by AI engines for its core topics.