Samen de traditie van skûtsjesilen steunen
IFKS (ifks.nl) scores 71 out of 100 on Brand Analyzer, placing it in the Brand-Ready tier among Sports & Fitness brands, Non-profit brands, in the 27th percentile of 10216 Sports & Fitness brands.
IFKS (It Fryske Kampioenschap Skûtsjesilen) is a Frisian non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and promoting the tradition of skûtsjesilen, a traditional sailing sport in Friesland, Netherlands. It organizes competitive sailing events, publishes classification results, and offers sponsorship and 'friend' membership opportunities to local businesses and enthusiasts who wish to support the continuation of this regional sailing heritage.
| Brand Name | IFKS |
|---|---|
| Domain | ifks.nl |
| Industry | Sports & Fitness, Non-profit |
| Main Competitors | SKS (Sintrale Kommisje Skûtsjesilen) (71/100), Koninklijk Nederlands Watersport Verbond, Sneekweek |
Moz Domain Authority 23/100 vs category average 42 / leader 94 - limited third-party links, so AI systems rarely encounter mentions of the brand.
No Wikipedia presence was found - a major gap, since Wikipedia is among the most heavily weighted sources in AI training data.
The homepage meta description reads "IFKS zet zich in om de traditie van het skûtsjesilen te behouden en te bevorderen." (No meta description) - this is the summary AI engines are most likely to quote.
Structured data on the homepage: 1 JSON-LD block(s), Organization schema, Breadcrumb/Website schema, Product/Article schema, og:title, og:image, og:type, Twitter cards, canonical. Adding FAQ schema would further help AI crawlers parse the brand's identity.
AI-crawler access: robots.txt present, no AI bot restrictions - robots.txt controls whether engines like GPTBot and ClaudeBot can read the site at all.
Content is NL-only, limiting citation in English-language AI answers.
Detected tech stack: WordPress, Ghost.
Social footprint: verified profiles on YouTube, Facebook, X (Twitter), Instagram, LinkedIn, GitHub - consistent profiles reinforce the brand's identity across the web.
0 Reddit mentions - community discussion signals real-world reputation to AI models.
Live results from asking a general-purpose AI assistant about the brand, checked October 2026.
When asked "What is IFKS?", Claude could not identify the brand as of October 2026. I don't recognize IFKS or ifks.nl specifically, likely because it's a small or regional Dutch sports/fitness organization with limited presence in my training data.
When asked "Best brands similar to IFKS?", Claude would not surface IFKS as of October 2026. I can't recommend a company I don't have verified information about.
Common questions people ask in Google, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and other AI search engines.
IFKS has low AI-search visibility, scoring 21/100 on Brand Analyzer's AI visibility composite (visibility 0, trust 34, recommendation 42). This estimates how likely AI engines like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity are to know, trust, and recommend the brand.
Sources: IFKS official site
IFKS scores 42/100 on Brand Analyzer's AI recommendation signal, indicating it is less likely to be surfaced when AI assistants like ChatGPT suggest Sports & Fitness options. Recommendation depends on crawlability, structured data, and category authority.
Sources: IFKS official site
IFKS can improve AI discoverability by strengthening structured data (Organization and FAQ schema), maintaining an accurate Wikipedia/Wikidata entity, earning authoritative citations, and keeping content crawlable for AI bots. Brand Analyzer measures these as visibility, trust, and recommendation signals.
Sources: IFKS official site
IFKS offers organized skûtsjesilen sailing competitions, published classification results from these races, sponsorship opportunities for local businesses, and a 'friend' membership program for individuals who wish to financially or socially support the preservation of this traditional sailing sport.
Sources: IFKS official site
IFKS organizes skûtsjesilen sailing competitions in Friesland and publishes classification results from these races. It also manages sponsorship programs for local businesses and offers a 'friend' membership for individuals who want to support the sport, acting as the central organizing body connecting the community around this traditional sailing discipline.
Sources: IFKS official site
IFKS is a Frisian non-profit organization, standing for 'It Fryske Kampioenschap Skûtsjesilen,' that is dedicated to preserving and promoting the tradition of skûtsjesilen, a traditional form of competitive sailing in Friesland, the Netherlands.
Sources: IFKS official site
IFKS scores 21/100 for AI visibility - how well ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews can discover, identify and cite the brand.
IFKS has a weak AI-visibility profile at 21/100 - a proxy for how readily ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews can recognise and cite it. Its strongest area is recommendation likelihood (42/100) and its weakest is visibility (0/100). It benefits from open access for AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, etc.) and machine-readable schema.org markup. The main gaps holding it back: no clear Wikipedia entity to anchor it in LLM training data, no strong Wikidata entry and a low Moz Domain Authority of 23/100. In a live check (October 2026), Claude could not identify IFKS from memory, confirming the gaps above.
The score combines seven dimensions - name quality, digital presence, visual identity, messaging clarity, trust foundation, AI discoverability, and brand authority - into a single objective benchmark.
Ranked closest to IFKS: ICEFISH.com (71/100), IAU - International Association of Ultrarunners (71/100), International Golf Federation (71/100), IHRSA (71/100).
A step up - brands to learn from: Zhou Nutrition (81/100), Zebco (81/100).
Category leader: Complex (97/100).
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