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Three-Engine Model
The framework Signostic uses to diagnose visibility. Three engines read the same signals and weight them differently: the Search Engine ranks, the Answer Engine cites, the Place Engine locates. The audit produces one sub-score per engine. The strategy maps remediation by engine and weight.
Three engines now decide whether a buyer sees a business. The Search Engine ranks pages. The Answer Engine cites sources. The Place Engine resolves the query against a location. They read the same underlying signals — entity definition, structured data, authority, content depth, local consistency — and weight them differently.
Four claims the framework owns: same signals, different weights; citations are the new rankings; the query never tells you which engine answered it; you don't pick, you stack.
Inside the audit, the model produces three sub-scores: Citation Presence for the Answer Engine, Schema / Entity Health for the machine-readable surface, and Place Signal for the Place Engine. The remediation map is weighted to the engine where ground is being lost fastest. Same diagnostic shape; wider aperture.
- Three Engine Model
- Three Engines Model
See Three-Engine Model measured in your domain — the Three-Engine audit.
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