AI Visibility Scorecard
Hearst DMS
hearstdms.com · Professional Services
Borderline visible. AI bots can crawl Hearst DMS, but the structured-data signals are thin - you are at real risk of being skipped when buyers ask ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity for a recommendation.
AI engines read this profile 8 times
Claude · Meta AI · ShapBot · Perplexity
#188,344 of 527,533 in Professional Services for AI visibility
18
AI Naming Predictability
iNamed occasionally · 18/100
More likely to be named than 99% of Professional Services companies
4
AEO Visibility
iNear-invisible · 3.7/10
35
Muse Index Score
iAI agent readiness
Agent-ready · 35/100
0
AI Adoption
iNone detected · 0/100
About Hearst DMS
from our crawl and measurement
"Hearst DMS offers a full suite of digital marketing services to local businesses across the country. Learn more about our solutions today!." That is how Hearst DMS introduces itself. When AI engines look at it, they find little to work with. It scores 3.7 out of 10.
On its own pages the site does well on a clear heading structure, a clearly stated business identity, crawler access and the files AI engines look for and sitemaps and entity links AI can follow. It is passable on some structured data and a few credibility markers.
Off the page, other sites link to it. There is some, but not much, sign that the domain is only lightly established. Beyond that, AI engines do not yet recognise it as a distinct business, there is no press coverage to draw on, nobody is discussing it where AI engines look and it does not come up on Reddit. None of that can be fixed on the page: it has to be earned.
It does link out to several social profiles, which helps engines tie the brand together.
The 6 signals AI reads
Strong · Good · Fair · Weak
Structured Data
Good
Organization / LocalBusiness JSON-LD that AI can read.
Content Structure
Strong
Clear headings and answer-style content.
Entity Clarity
Strong
How clearly your brand identity reads to AI.
E-E-A-T Signals
Experience, Expertise, Authority, Trust
Fair
Experience, Expertise, Authority, Trust markers.
Technical AEO
Good
robots.txt, llms.txt, and AI-bot crawl access.
AI Discoverability
Strong
Sitemaps and entity links AI can follow.
Off-page authority
How the web signals your brand to AI
Backlinks
Strong
Inbound links from other sites.
Domain Authority
Weak
Little domain authority yet.
Reference Presence
Weak
Not in AI knowledge graphs yet.
News & Press
Weak
No press coverage found yet.
Community
Weak
No community discussion yet.
Social Mentions
Weak
No social discussion found yet.
What this score means
Your AEO score measures whether AI search engines - ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini - can actually read your site and cite it in answers. Roughly two-thirds of sites are invisible to them. At 3.7/10, Hearst DMS is crawlable but under-signaled - fixable, and the signals above are where to start.
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Source & Attribution
Scored by Engagemii on August 1, 2026. Methodology: engagemii.com/aeo/methodology
Source URL: https://engagemii.com/aeo/brands/hearstdms
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