Identity & Authority: Podfollow – Signal Evidence & AI Readability

Podfollow

(https://podfollow.com) 📸 Data Snapshot: May 22, 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.
6 Impact Weight: 15 / 100
40% Reputation

This is the site’s weakest area. While it names David Madelin and Matt Deegan as technical and industry authorities, there is a total absence of structured data (schema_json is null) to verify these identities or link them to their external footprints (Folder Media, British Podcast Awards). The technical implementation is functional but lacks the metadata expected of a high-authority technical service.

There is a minor disconnect regarding performance claims. The site mentions ‘attractive, personalised social cards’ and ‘access to stats,’ but does not show examples or screenshots within the crawled text. The claim of being the ‘easiest way to link to your podcast’ is a subjective assertion that lacks a comparative metric or third-party validation.

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 — no schema detected (entity gap)
/charts/ — no schema detected (entity gap)
/blog/ — no schema detected (entity gap)
/page/contact/ — no schema detected (entity gap)
/who-uses-this/ — no schema detected (entity gap)
/page/about/ — no schema detected (entity gap)
🛡️ Trust Signals — external proof links that back the declared identity
0Review mentions (all pages)
0External proof links (all pages)
PageReviewsProof links
/ (home) 0 0
/charts/ 0 0
/blog/ 0 0
/page/contact/ 0 0
/who-uses-this/ 0 0
/page/about/ 0 0