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New York 8 local businesses scannedAn AI search readiness study by MoxSEO, a remote digital marketing agency for New York businesses
Looking for a digital marketing agency in New York? MoxSEO is an SEO and AI search team that works with New York businesses remotely; we have no office there. Before advising anyone, we scanned 8 New York business websites on 9 checks. Their median score was 75/100, 2nd of 20 cities. 1 of 8 passed "author and dates declared".
New York had the second-highest median, 75, and 5 of 8 homepages opened with a direct answer. Yet only half had exactly one H1. Three sites name AI agents in robots.txt without blocking them; blueoceanglobaltech.com scored 91 and passed all three provenance checks.
New York sample, by row
Published, CC BY 4.0Share of checks passedNot scanned
- 77inbeat.agency
- 91blueoceanglobaltech.com
- 82aumcore.com
- 55rjp.design
- 45unitedofweb.com
- 64e9digital.com
- 73thinkasa.com
- 82maxburst.com
Eight New York websites, scored row by row
Every business in the New York sample, with its score out of 100 and the result of each of the nine checks. These are diagnostic observations from one homepage scan, not endorsements or a ranking of the businesses.
| Website | Score / 100 | Answer | Q-heads | One H1 | Lists | 3+ H2 | Paras | Author | Cites | Schema | Opening words | JSON-LD blocks | AI crawlers in robots.txt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| inbeat.agency | Direct answer near top: Pass | Question-form headings: Pass | Exactly one H1: Pass | Lists or tables: Fail | Three or more H2 sections: Pass | Paragraph length: Pass | Author and dates declared: Fail | Cites external sources: Pass | Structured data present: Pass | 27 | 1 | Names 7, blocks none | |
| blueoceanglobaltech.com | Direct answer near top: Pass | Question-form headings: Pass | Exactly one H1: Pass | Lists or tables: Pass | Three or more H2 sections: Pass | Paragraph length: Fail | Author and dates declared: Pass | Cites external sources: Pass | Structured data present: Pass | 37 | 3 | Names 9, blocks none | |
| aumcore.com | Direct answer near top: Pass | Question-form headings: Pass | Exactly one H1: Pass | Lists or tables: Pass | Three or more H2 sections: Pass | Paragraph length: Pass | Author and dates declared: Fail | Cites external sources: Fail | Structured data present: Pass | 27 | 6 | Names 1, blocks none | |
| rjp.design | Direct answer near top: Fail | Question-form headings: Pass | Exactly one H1: Fail | Lists or tables: Pass | Three or more H2 sections: Pass | Paragraph length: Pass | Author and dates declared: Fail | Cites external sources: Fail | Structured data present: Pass | 16 | 1 | None named | |
| unitedofweb.com | Direct answer near top: Fail | Question-form headings: Pass | Exactly one H1: Fail | Lists or tables: Pass | Three or more H2 sections: Pass | Paragraph length: Fail | Author and dates declared: Fail | Cites external sources: Fail | Structured data present: Pass | 170 | 1 | None named | |
| e9digital.com | Direct answer near top: Fail | Question-form headings: Pass | Exactly one H1: Fail | Lists or tables: Pass | Three or more H2 sections: Pass | Paragraph length: Pass | Author and dates declared: Fail | Cites external sources: Pass | Structured data present: Pass | 12 | 2 | None named | |
| thinkasa.com | Direct answer near top: Pass | Question-form headings: Fail | Exactly one H1: Fail | Lists or tables: Pass | Three or more H2 sections: Pass | Paragraph length: Pass | Author and dates declared: Fail | Cites external sources: Pass | Structured data present: Pass | 25 | 1 | None named | |
| maxburst.com | Direct answer near top: Pass | Question-form headings: Pass | Exactly one H1: Pass | Lists or tables: Pass | Three or more H2 sections: Pass | Paragraph length: Pass | Author and dates declared: Fail | Cites external sources: Fail | Structured data present: Pass | 49 | 2 | None named |
- Score range
- From 45 (unitedofweb.com) to 91 (blueoceanglobaltech.com). Median 75, above the pooled 148-site median of 68, 2nd of 20 cities.
- Most common signal
- Three or more H2 sections; Structured data present: 8 of 8 sites.
- Least common signal
- Author and dates declared: 1 of 8 sites, against 16.2% pooled.
- Answer and provenance
- Direct opening answers on 5 of 8 sites, a named author and date on 1, citations on 4, structured data on 8. A concise answer helps retrieval; named responsibility and sources make claims checkable.
- Crawler handling
- None of the 8 New York sites blocked a named AI crawler in robots.txt. Three sites named AI agents without blocking any (inbeat.agency, blueoceanglobaltech.com and aumcore.com), which shows deliberate configuration but says nothing about content quality.
- Strongest site
- Highest score: 91, by blueoceanglobaltech.com. blueoceanglobaltech.com passed all three provenance checks.
Four audit stages, nine scored checks
The audit order has four steps. Under each sit the checks the study scored on every homepage, with the pooled 20-city pass rate beside the New York count. With 8 sites, one business moves the New York figure by 12 points, so read the counts, not just the percentages.
| Signal | What it means | 20-city pooled result | New York |
|---|---|---|---|
Step 1Confirm accessRobots rules, response status, canonical output, rendering, internal links and indexation for the page types tied to real demand. | |||
| AI crawler access | Whether robots.txt lets AI crawlers fetch the site. The study parsed rules for 14 AI crawlers. Recorded, not scored. | 9 of 148 block one or more22 name AI agents; 14 of those block none | 0 of 8 block |
Step 2Test answersWhether priority pages answer the customer question early, use descriptive sections and expose facts that can be extracted accurately. | |||
| Direct answer near top | An opening paragraph of 25 to 90 words that answers the question the page exists for. | 5 of 8 (62%) | |
| Question-form headings | Headings phrased the way people ask, so a section maps to a query. | 7 of 8 (88%) | |
| Exactly one H1 | One main heading, so the page's subject is unambiguous. | 4 of 8 (50%) | |
| Lists or tables | Facts set out in structures a machine can lift without rewriting. | 7 of 8 (88%) | |
| Three or more H2 sections | Enough descriptive sections for each to answer something on its own. | 8 of 8 (100%) | |
| Paragraph length | Paragraphs kept short enough to read, and quote, as one unit. | 6 of 8 (75%) | |
Step 3Verify provenanceBusiness identity, authors or reviewers, dates, citations, qualifications, policies and local evidence, in proportion to the risk of the claim. | |||
| Author and dates declared | A named author and a published or updated date: who stands behind the page, and when. | 1 of 8 (12%) | |
| Cites external sources | Links out to the sources a claim rests on. | 4 of 8 (50%) | |
| Structured data present | Schema.org markup that states the business, page and facts in machine-readable form. | 8 of 8 (100%) | |
Step 4Measure actionsQualified discovery connected to calls, enquiries, appointments, applications, demos or visits, without presenting attribution as perfect. | |||
| Qualified actions | Whether search visits turn into the step a customer can actually complete. | Not part of the homepage scanMeasured per site, in an audit | Not scanned |
What 8 sites can show, and what they can't
The scan records visible technical and editorial signals from 8 New York business websites at one point in time. It shows recurring implementation gaps and good questions for an audit. It cannot prove market-wide prevalence, customer preference, future AI citations or the commercial impact of any single signal.
- What this page shows
- Every New York row from the published file, its nine check results and how the city compares with the other 19.
- What it doesn't claim
- That these 8 sites represent every New York business, or that a higher score means more traffic or citations.
- How sites were picked
- From Google Places rather than at random: 6 to 9 sites per city, 148 in all, across 7 countries.
- Still useful for
- Auditing your own site. Recommendations come from its rendered pages, business facts, journeys and analytics, not from a city average.
One file, 8 of its rows
1 dot = 1 websitePooled CSV, 148 rows20 cities, published, CC BY 4.0
New York, 8 rowsInside the published CSV
Download the pooled file: city-market-study-2026-07-27.csv. How evidence is handled: methodology. All findings: the 20-city study.
What to fix first in New York
Start with the checks New York sites failed most often, then test your own pages before assuming the pattern applies to them. Begin with the service, location and conversion pages behind your most valuable decisions, and ignore the city comparison wherever your own evidence points to a bigger problem.
Put a name and a date on the work
1 of 8 New York homepages passed "author and dates declared" (12%), against 16.2% across all 148. Only blueoceanglobaltech.com did. It is the cheapest provenance signal to add: a named, accountable person and a visible published or updated date.
12%of New York sites passLink to the sources your claims rest on
4 of 8 New York homepages passed "cites external sources" (50%), against 62.8% across all 148. An outbound link to the primary source lets a reader, or a model, check the claim.
50%of New York sites passGive every page exactly one main heading
4 of 8 New York homepages passed "exactly one h1" (50%), against 70.3% across all 148. Check the rendered page: themes and page builders often add a second H1, or none.
50%of New York sites passCheck what crawlers actually receive
No New York site in the sample blocked an AI crawler in robots.txt, but robots rules are only the first gate. Verify the rendered page after scripts, templates, consent tools and plugins have run, not what the editor shows.
Connect discovery to a step customers can take
Calls, enquiries, appointments, applications, demos or visits. Measure qualified actions, and say where attribution is uncertain.
Then match the page to the customer journey
The New York market includes finance, legal services, media, technology, property, and high-consideration professional services. Each needs different proof on the page.
Name the regulated entity, the products, fees, risks and who reviewed each page and when. Keep rates and calculators current, and say where figures come from.
- Regulated entity named
- Fees and risks stated
- Reviewed and dated pages
Show the firm, the lawyers responsible for each practice area, the jurisdictions covered, how fees work, and an enquiry route that screens before it sells.
- Responsible lawyers named
- Jurisdictions stated
- Fee basis explained
Make work samples, credits, dates and the service behind each piece readable as text, not only as images or video, so an engine can tell what was done and by whom.
- Work described in text
- Credits and dates
- Services linked to work
A technical evaluator and a buyer should be able to verify the same offer. Connect product, use-case, integration, documentation, security, pricing and sales pages.
- Integration and docs pages
- Security and pricing in reach
- One path to a demo
Clarify the legal entity, service areas, inventory or project status, location evidence, reviews, fees, and the exact action a prospective customer can take.
- Legal entity and service area
- Project status and fees
- One named next step
Twenty cities, New York in context
The pooled study is the comparison point, not a league table. Each city figure comes from 6 to 9 sites picked from Google Places, so read it as the shape of a market. New York's nearest comparison, Toronto, had a median of 73 against New York's 75.
- New York median score, against 68 across all 148 sites
- 75/100
- 2nd by median score among the 20 cities in the pooled file
- 2 of 20
- New York homepages declaring author and dates, against 16.2% pooled
- 12%
- ChennaiIndia43% author and dates, 57% direct answer near top
- BengaluruIndia38% author and dates, 38% direct answer near top
- KolkataIndia33% author and dates, 67% direct answer near top
- AhmedabadIndia33% author and dates, 56% direct answer near top
- SingaporeSingapore29% author and dates, 29% direct answer near top
- TorontoCanada29% author and dates, 29% direct answer near top
- GurgaonIndia22% author and dates, 22% direct answer near top
- LondonUK17% author and dates, 50% direct answer near top
- MumbaiIndia17% author and dates, 33% direct answer near top
- New YorkUSA12% author and dates, 62% direct answer near top
- DelhiIndia12% author and dates, 50% direct answer near top
- JaipurIndia12% author and dates, 38% direct answer near top
- PuneIndia11% author and dates, 44% direct answer near top
- SydneyAustralia11% author and dates, 44% direct answer near top
- NoidaIndia0% author and dates, 43% direct answer near top
- DubaiUAE0% author and dates, 38% direct answer near top
- BhopalIndia0% author and dates, 33% direct answer near top
- ChandigarhIndia0% author and dates, 33% direct answer near top
- IndoreIndia0% author and dates, 33% direct answer near top
- LucknowIndia0% author and dates, 25% direct answer near top
- HyderabadIndiaScanned separately. No values published, so no position.n = 13
Source: city-market AI readiness study, July 2026. Six cities recorded 0% on attribution. Per-city samples are small; the study calls these figures indicative. City names link to each city's page.
Digital marketing for New York businesses, scoped to one site
MoxSEO works with New York businesses remotely. We have no office or address in New York and do not pretend to. Every engagement starts from evidence on your own site, the way this page starts from evidence on 8 local ones.
- Local SEOBusiness information, location pages, reviews and conversion paths
- AI SEO and GEOExtractable answers, provenance and AI crawler access
- Technical SEORendering, canonicals, indexation and internal links
- International SEOCountry targeting, hreflang and market-by-market pages
- Digital marketingContent marketing and the wider programme around search
- Local SEO packagesPublished starting points for local programmes
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Questions about New York
MoxSEO is an SEO, AI search and digital marketing team that works remotely with businesses across New York. We have no office or address in New York. This page is our research on 8 local business websites, which we use as starting evidence in a New York audit, alongside the evidence on your own site.
The 8 New York homepages we scanned had a median score of 75 out of 100, above the pooled median of 68 and 2nd of 20 cities by median. Scores ran from 45 (unitedofweb.com) to 91 (blueoceanglobaltech.com). The sample is small and picked from Google Places, so treat it as indicative, not a census.
"Author and dates declared": 1 of 8 passed, against 16.2% across all 148 sites. "Cites external sources": 4 of 8 passed, against 62.8% across all 148 sites. Both are fixable in a template or a content edit, which is why they lead our New York audit order.
None of the 8 New York sites blocked a named AI crawler in robots.txt. Three sites named AI agents without blocking any (inbeat.agency, blueoceanglobaltech.com and aumcore.com), which shows deliberate configuration but says nothing about content quality. Across all 148 sites, 9 blocked at least one of the 14 AI crawlers the study parsed.
New York: median 75, 12% named an author and date, 62% opened with a direct answer (8 sites). Toronto: median 73, 29% named an author and date, 29% opened with a direct answer (7 sites). Both samples are small, so a difference of one site moves the percentages a lot.
Local SEO, AI SEO and GEO, technical SEO, international SEO, content and the wider digital marketing programme, all delivered remotely. Work starts with an audit of your own pages; in New York the first fixes are usually "author and dates declared" and "cites external sources", the two checks local sites failed most.
The other 20 city reports
All researchFigures per city: share of sampled homepages declaring author and dates, and opening with a direct answer. Every page is a research report on that market, not an office. How evidence is handled: methodology.
Test your site,
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Bring your site, your goals and your constraints. In a free 30-minute call, Sakshi Kumari or Ashish Khan, the specialists who run MoxSEO, check access, answers and provenance on your priority pages and tell you the most useful first move.
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