Your complete marathon directory
MarathonGuide.com (marathonguide.com) scores 78 out of 100 on Brand Analyzer, placing it in the Brand-Ready tier among Sports & Fitness brands, Media & Entertainment brands, in the 61st percentile of 9071 Sports & Fitness brands.
MarathonGuide.com is an online directory providing comprehensive information on marathons and half marathons worldwide. It offers race calendars, results tracked since 2000, news, training schedules, and calculators for runners. Covering over 15,000 events, the site serves as a resource for competitive and recreational runners, race organizers, and running enthusiasts seeking event details, historical data, and training guidance.
| Brand Name | MarathonGuide.com |
|---|---|
| Domain | marathonguide.com |
| Industry | Sports & Fitness, Media & Entertainment |
| Main Competitors | Running USA, Active.com (86/100), Athlinks (76/100), Running in the USA, Find My Marathon, World's Marathons, Strava (95/100) |
Moz Domain Authority 72/100 vs category average 43 / leader 94 - a strong backlink profile, so AI systems frequently encounter mentions of the brand.
Ranked #165,536 on the Tranco list of most-visited sites - modest traffic makes the brand easy for AI models to overlook.
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 "Complete directory of marathons and half marathons - race results, news, history, training schedules and calculators for every marathon runner and fan." (Meta description: 22 words (ideal length). OG description present and descriptive) - this is the summary AI engines are most likely to quote.
Structured data on the homepage: 2 JSON-LD block(s), Organization schema, Breadcrumb/Website schema, og:title, og:description, 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.
Detected tech stack: Next.js, Cloudflare, WordPress.
Social footprint: verified profiles on X (Twitter), Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube; no detected presence on 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 MarathonGuide.com?", Claude could identify the brand as of October 2026. MarathonGuide.com is a long-running website that provides information, results, and coverage for marathons around the world, including race calendars, results databases, and runner training resources. Best known for being an online database and resource hub for marathon race results and race listings.
When asked "Best brands similar to MarathonGuide.com?", Claude would recommend MarathonGuide.com as of October 2026. It's a well-known, long-standing resource for marathon runners looking for race results and race information, so I'd mention it alongside other running-focused sites.
Common questions people ask in Google, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and other AI search engines.
MarathonGuide.com's main competitors in Sports & Fitness: Active.com (86/100), Athlinks (76/100), Strava (95/100).
Sources: Brand Analyzer scan
MarathonGuide.com offers a directory of marathons and half marathons, race results tracking since 2000, race news, training schedules, and training calculators.
Sources: MarathonGuide.com official site
MarathonGuide.com is a website offering a comprehensive directory of marathons and half marathons, including race results, news, history, training schedules, and calculators for runners and fans worldwide.
Sources: MarathonGuide.com official site
MarathonGuide.com has limited AI-search visibility, scoring 34/100 on Brand Analyzer's AI visibility composite (visibility 5, trust 57, recommendation 58). This estimates how likely AI engines like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity are to know, trust, and recommend the brand.
Sources: MarathonGuide.com official site
MarathonGuide.com compiles and provides race calendars, results tracking (since 2000), news updates, training schedules, and calculators covering over 15,000 marathons and half marathons globally.
Sources: MarathonGuide.com official site
MarathonGuide.com scores 58/100 on Brand Analyzer's AI recommendation signal, indicating it is reasonably likely to be surfaced when AI assistants like ChatGPT suggest Sports & Fitness options. Recommendation depends on crawlability, structured data, and category authority.
Sources: MarathonGuide.com official site
MarathonGuide.com is known for its extensive directory of over 15,000 marathons and half marathons and its long-running database of race results dating back to 2000.
Sources: MarathonGuide.com official site
MarathonGuide.com 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: MarathonGuide.com official site
MarathonGuide.com is used by marathon and half marathon runners, race organizers, and running enthusiasts seeking race results, training guidance, and event information.
Sources: MarathonGuide.com official site
MarathonGuide.com scores 34/100 for AI visibility - how well ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews can discover, identify and cite the brand.
MarathonGuide.com has a weak AI-visibility profile at 34/100 - a proxy for how readily ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews can recognise and cite it. Its strongest area is recommendation likelihood (58/100) and its weakest is visibility (5/100). It benefits from a global traffic rank of #165,536 (Tranco), a Moz Domain Authority of 72/100 and open access for AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, etc.). The main gaps holding it back: no clear Wikipedia entity to anchor it in LLM training data, no strong Wikidata entry and no llms.txt to steer AI to its best pages. In a live check, Claude could already identify MarathonGuide.com from memory (October 2026) - a sign these signals are paying off.
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 MarathonGuide.com: LOSC (78/100), LongoMatch (78/100), Marathon Tours & Travel (78/100), Maxbet (78/100).
A step up - brands to learn from: Zhou Nutrition (81/100), Zebco (81/100).
Category leader: Complex (97/100).
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