AI Authority Score™ Explained: What It Measures and Why It Matters
Inside the proprietary metric Brand Signal Network uses to estimate a publisher's real influence on AI Search visibility.
Want to be the source AI engines quote? Browse vetted publishers with an AI Authority Score.
Explore the marketplace →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.
Put this into practice
Every publisher in our marketplace is vetted on traffic, editorial quality and whether it actually appears as a source inside AI answers.
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