Louisville Magazine
(https://louisville.com) 📸 Data Snapshot: May 31, 2026
Identity & Authority — The Lens
Inspect the JSON-LD. Is there an Organization or Person schema, and does it carry sameAs links to real external profiles (LinkedIn, socials)? Missing schema or no identity declaration signals an anonymous entity.
Identity & Authority
Expert verifiability & Schema depth.
7
Impact Weight: 15 / 100
47% Reputation
Authority gaps exist due to technical omissions rather than content falsity. While Editor Josh Moss is named and accessible via email, there is no Person schema or sameAs links to verify his professional footprint or external accolades. Additionally, the homepage lacks an H1 tag, indicating a technical gap between the magazine’s authoritative positioning and its web implementation.
The site makes bold claims regarding its ‘Voting Academy’ as a ‘new approach’ to local awards. While it provides substantial internal logic for this change, it lacks external case studies or independent audits to prove that this 1,800-person group is truly representative and not another form of the ‘usual-suspects predictable’ results it criticizes. However, the admission of past performance failures (like naming Red Lobster the best seafood) adds a layer of honesty rarely seen in marketing-driven media.
Identity & Authority is read from the structured data first: whether the site declares who it is in machine-readable schema, with verifiable identity links. Below is the schema captured per page, then the external proof links that support (or fail to support) that identity.
🔗 Identity & Technical Layer — schema JSON-LD: identity chains, entity gaps
Homepage schema
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"url": "https://www.louisville.com/",
"name": "Louisville Magazine",
"description": "Seen, known, needed.",
"publisher": {
"@id": "https://www.louisville.com/#organization"
},
"potentialAction": [
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}
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"inLanguage": "en-US"
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"@id": "https://www.louisville.com/#organization",
"name": "Louisville Magazine",
"url": "https://www.louisville.com/",
"logo": {
"@type": "ImageObject",
"inLanguage": "en-US",
"@id": "https://www.louisville.com/#/schema/logo/image/",
"url": "https://www.louisville.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Louisville_Logo_for_Website_Black.png",
"contentUrl": "https://www.louisville.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Louisville_Logo_for_Website_Black.png",
"width": 654,
"height": 479,
"caption": "Louisville Magazine"
},
"image": {
"@id": "https://www.louisville.com/#/schema/logo/image/"
}
}
]
}
/bestof/
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"@graph": [
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"@id": "https://bestof.louisville.com/",
"url": "https://bestof.louisville.com/",
"name": "Table of Contents - Best Of Louisville",
"isPartOf": {
"@id": "https://bestof.louisville.com/#website"
},
"about": {
"@id": "https://bestof.louisville.com/#organization"
},
"primaryImageOfPage": {
"@id": "https://bestof.louisville.com/#primaryimage"
},
"image": {
"@id": "https://bestof.louisville.com/#primaryimage"
},
"thumbnailUrl": "https://bestof.louisville.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2025-BOL-Cover-791x1024.png",
"datePublished": "2025-06-12T13:12:41+00:00",
"dateModified": "2026-01-16T20:10:33+00:00",
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"@id": "https://bestof.louisville.com/#breadcrumb"
},
"inLanguage": "en-US",
"potentialAction": [
{
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"target": [
"https://bestof.louisville.com/"
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]
},
{
"@type": "ImageObject",
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"url": "https://bestof.louisville.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2025-BOL-Cover-scaled.png",
"contentUrl": "https://bestof.louisville.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2025-BOL-Cover-scaled.png",
"width": 1978,
"height": 2560
},
{
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},
{
"@type": "WebSite",
"@id": "https://bestof.louisville.com/#website",
"url": "https://bestof.louisville.com/",
"name": "Best Of Louisville, by Louisville Magazine",
"description": "",
"publisher": {
"@id": "https://bestof.louisville.com/#organization"
},
"potentialAction": [
{
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"@type": "EntryPoint",
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},
"query-input": {
"@type": "PropertyValueSpecification",
"valueRequired": true,
"valueName": "search_term_string"
}
}
],
"inLanguage": "en-US"
},
{
"@type": "Organization",
"@id": "https://bestof.louisville.com/#organization",
"name": "Louisville Magazine",
"url": "https://bestof.louisville.com/",
"logo": {
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"inLanguage": "en-US",
"@id": "https://bestof.louisville.com/#/schema/logo/image/",
"url": "https://bestof.louisville.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/site-icon-bol.png",
"contentUrl": "https://bestof.louisville.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/site-icon-bol.png",
"width": 818,
"height": 818,
"caption": "Louisville Magazine"
},
"image": {
"@id": "https://bestof.louisville.com/#/schema/logo/image/"
},
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/louisvillemagazine/",
"https://x.com/louisvillemag",
"https://www.instagram.com/louisvillemag"
]
}
]
}
/its-not-about-us/
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{
"@type": "Organization",
"@id": "http://www.louisville.com/#organization",
"name": "Louisville Magazine",
"url": "http://www.louisville.com",
"sameAs": [],
"logo": {
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"inLanguage": "en",
"url": "https://louisville.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Louisville_Logo_for_Website_Black.png",
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},
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}
},
{
"@type": "WebSite",
"@id": "http://www.louisville.com/#website",
"url": "http://www.louisville.com",
"name": "Louisville Magazine",
"description": "Connecting People and Places",
"publisher": {
"@id": "http://www.louisville.com/#organization"
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"potentialAction": [
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"@type": "SearchAction",
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{
"@type": "WebPage",
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"url": "https://www.louisville.com/its-not-about-us",
"name": "(It's Not) About Us - Louisville",
"isPartOf": {
"@id": "http://www.louisville.com/#website"
},
"datePublished": "2020-11-13T16:01:02+00:00",
"dateModified": "2021-02-04T16:27:59+00:00",
"breadcrumb": {
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},
"inLanguage": "en",
"potentialAction": [
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"@type": "ReadAction",
"target": [
"https://www.louisville.com/its-not-about-us"
]
}
]
},
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"@type": "BreadcrumbList",
"@id": "https://www.louisville.com/its-not-about-us/#breadcrumb",
"itemListElement": [
{
"@type": "ListItem",
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"name": "Home",
"item": "https://www.louisville.com"
},
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"@type": "ListItem",
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"name": "(It’s Not) About Us"
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"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@graph": [
{
"@type": "WebSite",
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"url": "https://www.louisville.com/",
"name": "Louisville Magazine",
"description": "Seen, known, needed.",
"publisher": {
"@id": "https://www.louisville.com/#organization"
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"@type": "Organization",
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"name": "Louisville Magazine",
"url": "https://www.louisville.com/",
"logo": {
"@type": "ImageObject",
"inLanguage": "en-US",
"@id": "https://www.louisville.com/#/schema/logo/image/",
"url": "https://www.louisville.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Louisville_Logo_for_Website_Black.png",
"contentUrl": "https://www.louisville.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Louisville_Logo_for_Website_Black.png",
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},
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"@id": "https://www.louisville.com/#/schema/logo/image/"
}
}
]
}
]
/best-of-louisville/
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"@graph": [
{
"@type": "WebPage",
"@id": "https://www.louisville.com/best-of-louisville",
"url": "https://www.louisville.com/best-of-louisville",
"name": "Best of Louisville - Louisville Magazine",
"isPartOf": {
"@id": "https://www.louisville.com/#website"
},
"primaryImageOfPage": {
"@id": "https://www.louisville.com/best-of-louisville#primaryimage"
},
"image": {
"@id": "https://www.louisville.com/best-of-louisville#primaryimage"
},
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"datePublished": "2023-05-26T16:56:15+00:00",
"dateModified": "2026-01-22T23:34:30+00:00",
"breadcrumb": {
"@id": "https://www.louisville.com/best-of-louisville#breadcrumb"
},
"inLanguage": "en-US",
"potentialAction": [
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]
}
]
},
{
"@type": "ImageObject",
"inLanguage": "en-US",
"@id": "https://www.louisville.com/best-of-louisville#primaryimage",
"url": "https://bestof.louisville.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Picture-from-first-issue.png",
"contentUrl": "https://bestof.louisville.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Picture-from-first-issue.png"
},
{
"@type": "BreadcrumbList",
"@id": "https://www.louisville.com/best-of-louisville#breadcrumb",
"itemListElement": [
{
"@type": "ListItem",
"position": 1,
"name": "Home",
"item": "https://www.louisville.com/"
},
{
"@type": "ListItem",
"position": 2,
"name": "Best of Louisville"
}
]
},
{
"@type": "WebSite",
"@id": "https://www.louisville.com/#website",
"url": "https://www.louisville.com/",
"name": "Louisville Magazine",
"description": "Seen, known, needed.",
"publisher": {
"@id": "https://www.louisville.com/#organization"
},
"potentialAction": [
{
"@type": "SearchAction",
"target": {
"@type": "EntryPoint",
"urlTemplate": "https://www.louisville.com/?s={search_term_string}"
},
"query-input": {
"@type": "PropertyValueSpecification",
"valueRequired": true,
"valueName": "search_term_string"
}
}
],
"inLanguage": "en-US"
},
{
"@type": "Organization",
"@id": "https://www.louisville.com/#organization",
"name": "Louisville Magazine",
"url": "https://www.louisville.com/",
"logo": {
"@type": "ImageObject",
"inLanguage": "en-US",
"@id": "https://www.louisville.com/#/schema/logo/image/",
"url": "https://www.louisville.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Louisville_Logo_for_Website_Black.png",
"contentUrl": "https://www.louisville.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Louisville_Logo_for_Website_Black.png",
"width": 654,
"height": 479,
"caption": "Louisville Magazine"
},
"image": {
"@id": "https://www.louisville.com/#/schema/logo/image/"
}
}
]
}
🛡️ Trust Signals — external proof links that back the declared identity
10Review mentions (all pages)
0External proof links (all pages)
| Page | Reviews | Proof links |
|---|---|---|
| / (home) | 2 | 0 |
| /bestof/ | 2 | 0 |
| /its-not-about-us/ | 4 | 0 |
| /best-of-louisville/ | 2 | 0 |
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Analysis Disclosure & Source Attribution
This page presents a snapshot of public data from Louisville Magazine, captured on May 31, 2026, to show how machine logic reads Identity & Authority signals into an AI reputation evaluation.
Purpose: This data is presented under “Fair Use” for the purpose of independent signal analysis, allowing readers to see the raw signals behind the reputation score.
Notice to Louisville Magazine: This analysis is part of a non-adversarial audit conducted by 1 Euro SEO. The results are intended as professional feedback to help improve any website’s machine-readability and authority signals. The evaluation is free, and any company can request a fresh audit at any time.
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To all users: You are encouraged to visit the live site at https://louisville.com to view the most current version of its content and see directly what this company is about and what it offers.