Things I’ve Heard Along the Way™

Things I’ve Heard Along the Way™ describes itself simply: "If you're visiting for the first time, please read the Foreword (just below), then click on the first link at the top of the page to read posts in blog (newest to oldest) order or on the." When AI engines look at it, they find little to work with. It scores 3.5 out of 10.

The page falls short on a heading structure that lays out what it offers, a clearly stated business identity, the technical files AI engines look for, such as llms.txt or an open robots.txt, sitemaps and entity links AI can follow, structured data describing the business and credibility markers like credentials or reviews.

Off the page, other sites link to it. Beyond that, the domain does not yet read as established, 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.

AI crawlers have visited 2 times in our tracking, including ClaudeBot (Anthropic) and AmazonBot (Alexa AI). The site links to no social profiles, so there is nothing tying the brand to a wider presence.