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Digital Karma v8.2 at BellyUp!: Progress You Can Check
BellyUp! gives site owners a live example of Digital Karma at network scale. Compare the implementation checks with the discovery results, then audit your own site.
BellyUp! turns the protocol into a public progress report
BellyUp! is a local discovery network for places to eat and things to do. BellyUp! America connects its city guides and topic websites.
The RealSEOLife case study records the November 6 checkpoint. The AI Digital Karma article explains why this becomes an ongoing portfolio series.
Our conclusion is that the protocol has strengthened the portfolio's discovery foundation. BellyUp! now gives us observed exposure growth to follow beside it.
What the BellyUp! implementation checks cover
| Coverage | Result |
|---|---|
| Registered properties | 138 passed inventory and conformance |
| Canonical pages | 5,530 covered by current passing crawl receipts |
| Catalog Datasets | 420 across the family |
The Jax catalog is an inspectable example. The totals combine the complete family.
The full-sitemap receipts were all dated November 6. We reran inventory and conformance checks against those artifacts; this report does not claim a second manual crawl of every BellyUp! page.
Why rendered pages matter in v8.2
A catalog published in an AI folder can be correct while the HTML page a crawler fetches is missing its content collections.
The v8.2 specification closes that gap. Every canonical sitemap page must include the catalog and its Datasets with stable identities and a relationship to the page.
The public Jax crawl receipt shows what a passing report looks like. It records the checked page count and the hashes of the sitemap and catalog.
Which BellyUp! outcomes were measured separately
The older group's Google impressions and Google clicks increased across equal periods. The report fixes the group before counting so new launches cannot explain that entire increase.
The crawler chart records requests to AI endpoints. Those requests are a separate reading from Google performance.
Neither a passing receipt nor an endpoint request proves a ranking benefit or an AI citation. The protocol's contribution to the observed Google growth has not been isolated.
What Buy It Here adds to the progress series
Buy It Here is a local shopping network that helps people find stores for the things they need. Its national home connects shoppers to city guides, starting with Jacksonville and its shopping-topic websites.
The Buy It Here baseline preserves a new retail network's starting conditions close to launch. It began with v8.2, so it is not a protocol-off control group.
The latest imported Google date precedes its November 4 launch. Its public report marks post-launch search data unavailable until the source reaches that period.
AISymantix follows the discovery results
The AISymantix tracking case study refreshes dated Google and successful crawler readings from our own warehouse during the site's existing nightly build.
Digital Karma Web checks the implementation. AISymantix follows what happens afterward and publishes the measurements that can support or challenge our discovery theories.
The tracking page preserves changed snapshots. It keeps the fixed BellyUp! group separate from the new Buy It Here network and does not treat crawler requests as AI citations.
Check your own Digital Karma implementation
The website audit gives an owner a starting comparison against the current standard. The download kit supplies the current implementation materials.
After implementation, the release check needs the whole canonical sitemap. A homepage sample and a folder of JSON files do not establish every-page coverage.
Keep implementation checks separate from outcome tracking. The first says the structure is present; the second tells you what happened after publication.