GEO AUDIT · BRAND-ONLY

North Carolina Courage.

A look at how North Carolina Courage is described, positioned, and quoted inside Google's AI Overviews, the AI answer box at the top of search results, and where the brand shows up versus goes missing.

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Where we lookedGoogle AI Overviews, US

Questions tested39 brand, category, and competitor queries

PreparedAugust 28, 2026 · by AUQ

AI Visibility Score

out of 100. Absent band. North Carolina Courage is cited in 2 of 38 AI answers. It shows up on North Carolina Courage. It is absent on Professional Women'S Soccer, Nwsl Team, Soccer Season Tickets.

Verified AI Overview citations

North Carolina Courage's brand is cited in 2 of the 38 AI-answer queries we tested.

AI answer trigger rate

97%

Google's AI answer box fires on 38 of 39 tracked queries.

Citation rate when AI answers

Share of AI-answer queries where the brand is actually quoted.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

North Carolina Courage scores 16 of 100 for AI Overview visibility. The work is closing the citation and identity gaps.

North Carolina Courage is cited in 2 of 38 AI answers. It shows up on North Carolina Courage. It is absent on Professional Women'S Soccer, Nwsl Team, Soccer Season Tickets.

AI answers fire on 97% of tracked queries, yet North Carolina Courage is quoted in only 5% of them. When it does appear, it sits as a listed provider, rarely the lead source.

AI Visibility Score

Absent band

BarelyLowCompetitiveDominant

What's in the score

How often AI answers appear97 / 100
Inclusion in category answers16 / 100
Quality of placement when cited50 / 100
How AI describes the brand33 / 100
Topic coverage breadth17 / 100
Your pages being quoted5 / 100

IDENTITY IN AI OVERVIEWS

How the brand describes itself, and how Google's AI describes it.

What the brand says about itself

Professional Women'S Soccer

NC Courage - Official website common-loading ... Tickets Courageously Cool Single Game Tickets 2027 Season Tickets Courage Flex Pass Group Tickets Premium Seating FAQ Season ticket member HQ Schedule Promotional Schedule Hotel discounts fornccourage.com, 2026

Differentiators it leads with: Professional Women'S Soccer, NWSL Team, Soccer Season Tickets, Live Sports Events.

What Google's AI says

Recognized in AI answers for North Carolina Courage

Cited as a provider on North Carolina Courage queries.

Appears alongside YouTube, NWSL, Reddit.

The core gap

North Carolina Courage presents as professional women's soccer, NWSL team, soccer season tickets, live sports events, sports club membership. AI Overviews cite it on North Carolina Courage and it is absent on Professional Women'S Soccer, Nwsl Team, Soccer Season Tickets.

Words AI uses for the brand

North Carolina Courage

The brand's own pillars that AI omits

Professional Women'S SoccerNwsl TeamSoccer Season TicketsCited source on vendor and comparison queries

CONTENT AND ENTITY COVERAGE

The topics that matter to the brand, and where it shows up in AI answers today.

See the full query-by-query breakdown →

Topic	Presence in AI answers	Buyer intent
North Carolina Courage	Owned	comparison
Professional Women'S Soccer	Invisible	positioning
Nwsl Team	Invisible	positioning
Soccer Season Tickets	Invisible	positioning
Live Sports Events	Invisible	positioning
Sports Club Membership	Invisible	positioning

Buyer-journey coverage

Problem Aware. overview queries: North Carolina Courage appears on 1 of 6 themes.

Solution Aware. Owned on North Carolina Courage; absent on Professional Women'S Soccer, Nwsl Team, Soccer Season Tickets.

Alternatives. 4 themes name the brand without citing it; 32 queries answer without it at all.

AI OVERVIEW PERFORMANCE

Where the brand shows up in Google's AI, and the high-value queries it is missing.

See all queries we tested →

Tracked keywords

Brand, category, and comparison queries analyzed.

AI answers fired

97% of tracked queries trigger an AI Overview.

Times brand cited

5% citation rate when AI answers.

Total brand mentions

Across all observed AI responses.

QUERIES WE TESTED

Every query we ran against Google's AI Overview, and what we found.

39 queries across branded, positioning, and comparison intent. "Cited" means North Carolina Courage's own domain is a source in the AI answer. "Named, not cited" means the brand is mentioned but is not the source. "Absent" means the AI answered without it.

Query	Type	North Carolina Courage in the AI answer	Top sources cited
best professional women's soccer	Positioning	Absent
professional women's soccer vendors	Positioning	Absent
professional women's soccer solutions	Positioning	Absent
professional women's soccer software	Positioning	Absent
professional women's soccer platform	Positioning	Absent
top professional women's soccer providers	Positioning	Absent
professional women's soccer comparison	Positioning	Absent
best nwsl team	Positioning	Absent
nwsl team vendors	Positioning	Absent
nwsl team solutions	Positioning	Named, not cited
nwsl team software	Positioning	Absent
nwsl team platform	Positioning	Named, not cited	support.google.com
top nwsl team providers	Positioning	Absent	support.google.com
nwsl team comparison	Positioning	Named, not cited
best soccer season tickets	Positioning	Absent
soccer season tickets vendors	Positioning	Absent
soccer season tickets solutions	Positioning	Absent
soccer season tickets software	Positioning	Absent
soccer season tickets platform	Positioning	Absent
top soccer season tickets providers	Positioning	Absent
soccer season tickets comparison	Positioning	Absent
best live sports events	Positioning	Absent
live sports events vendors	Positioning	Absent	sommersportsevents.com, performancesportevents.com, coloradospringssports.org
live sports events solutions	Positioning	Absent
live sports events software	Positioning	Absent
live sports events platform	Positioning	Absent
top live sports events providers	Positioning	Absent
live sports events comparison	Positioning	Absent
best sports club membership	Positioning	Absent
sports club membership vendors	Positioning	Absent
sports club membership solutions	Positioning	Absent
sports club membership software	Positioning	Absent
sports club membership platform	Positioning	Absent
top sports club membership providers	Positioning	Absent
sports club membership comparison	Positioning	Absent
alternatives to North Carolina Courage	Comparison	Named, not cited
North Carolina Courage vs Portland Thorns	Comparison	No AI answer
North Carolina Courage vs Angel City FC	Comparison	Cited	support.google.com
North Carolina Courage vs Washington Spirit	Comparison	Cited	support.google.com

THREE FINDINGS THAT MATTER

The brand is missing from 95% of AI-answer queries

North Carolina Courage is cited in 2 of the 38 AI answers we triggered.

AI misreads the category

TOP THREE MOVES

Win presence on Professional Women'S Soccer

Impact high · effort medium · 30 to 60 days

Convert named-not-cited queries into citations

Impact medium · effort low · 0 to 30 days

Earn placement in the third-party listicles AI cites

Impact high · effort medium · 30 to 90 days

WHERE GOOGLE'S AI GETS ITS ANSWERS

The sources Google's AI cites in this category, and what it tells you about earning citations.

Domain AI cites	Pages	Context
YouTube	16	Cited on 16 of the queries we tested.
NWSL	12	Cited on 12 of the queries we tested.
Reddit	11	Cited on 11 of the queries we tested.
Facebook	8	Cited on 8 of the queries we tested.
Wikipedia	7	Cited on 7 of the queries we tested.
ESPN	7	Cited on 7 of the queries we tested.
New York City FC	5	Cited on 5 of the queries we tested.
Quora	4	Cited on 4 of the queries we tested.
FOX Sports	4	Cited on 4 of the queries we tested.
LA Galaxy	4	Cited on 4 of the queries we tested.

Reading

Independent listicles, communities, and rival explainers win the citations North Carolina Courage is missing. Earning AI citation on the invisible themes means placement on those third-party pages, not only owning its own glossary.

AI-REVEALED PEERS

The competitive set drawn by Google's AI itself. Observed, not chosen.

See which queries each peer won →

Brands and domains Google's AI cites in place of North Carolina Courage on the queries where it is absent. Observed, not chosen.

Peer	How AI frames it
YouTube	Cited on 16 of the tested queries.
NWSL	Cited on 12 of the tested queries.
Reddit	Cited on 11 of the tested queries.
Facebook	Cited on 8 of the tested queries.
Wikipedia	Cited on 7 of the tested queries.
ESPN	Cited on 7 of the tested queries.
New York City FC	Cited on 5 of the tested queries.
Quora	Cited on 4 of the tested queries.

Key observation

YouTube is the most-cited source across the queries North Carolina Courage is missing.

90-DAY ROADMAP

Three sprints from first wins to compounding category presence.

Month 1 · Days 1 to 30

Publish solution and comparison pages for Professional Women'S Soccer, Nwsl Team, Soccer Season Tickets.
Build linkable comparison assets so AI Overviews can cite the brand's own domain.

Month 2 · Days 31 to 60

Earn placement in third-party best-of listicles and review sites the AI cites.
Seed community and review presence where AI Overviews pull trust signals.

Month 3 · Days 61 to 90

Expand owned comparison content across decision-stage queries.
Re-audit to confirm invisible themes move to cited and track citation share.