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Global rank
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LLMS.txt
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IOL is a South African digital news publisher and aggregation platform covering breaking news, current affairs, business, sports, lifestyle, entertainment, and technology. It serves readers across South Africa and beyond with reporting from a network of news titles and sections in English and Zulu.
Global rank: Worldwide · 2026-08
#4,861
AI visibility: Grade F
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SEO health: Latest audit
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Visits
59.9K
per month, estimated
Keywords
49.7K
ranking in Google
Organic share
100%
59.9K organic visits
LLMS.txt
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AI engines have to guess
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A snapshot of how iol.co.za performs in search and in AI answers — every number below is one we hold, not a guess.
Our read on the site
The overall SEO health of https://iol.co.za is critically compromised due to missing essential on-page elements such as title, meta description, and H1 tags. Additionally, significant technical issues, including the absence of a viewport tag, robots.txt, and sitemap.xml, further hinder the site's performance and visibi…
Month by month, how much search traffic this domain earns — how much of it is free, and whether it is winning or losing ground.
Monthly visits
59.9K
Latest estimate
Change
No monthly history yet
It starts building from the first scan
Organic visits
59.9K
100% of all traffic
Paid visits
Which markets this brand actually serves, and where the web links to it from.
We only measure visitor geography for domains whose analytics are connected to us. For everyone else this is read live from the web and shown as an estimate — never mixed in with the measured numbers.
Who buys: News readers in South Africa, especially consumers seeking local, national, and business coverage.
Sources: iol.co.za · iol.co.za · en.wikipedia.org
Measured. The country each linking site is hosted in — a real signal of which regions know this brand.
No backlink sample for this domain yet.
Backlink Analytics collects one on its first run.
Whether AI engines can read this brand, understand it, and cite it when someone asks about its category.
Grade F
Scored from this domain's own data — llms.txt, profile completeness, technical health, crawlability and structured data.
The searches this domain already ranks for, and how much traffic they bring it.
Ranking keywords
49.7K
Found in Google for this domain
Visits they bring
59.9K
Estimated organic visits a month
No ranked-keyword data cached for this domain yet.
Ranked Keywords pulls the full list on its first run.
How the site itself performs — speed, accessibility and the technical basics both search crawlers and AI crawlers depend on.
Overall
SEO
The websites this domain competes with for the same searches and the same AI answers.
The business behind the domain — what it does, where it is, and who runs it.
IOL is a South African digital news publisher and aggregation platform covering breaking news, current affairs, business, sports, lifestyle, entertainment, and technology. It serves readers across South Africa and beyond with reporting from a network of news titles and sections in English and Zulu.
Live-web sources:iol.co.zaiol.co.zaen.wikipedia.orgen.wikipedia.org
The file AI engines read to understand a business. This is what it currently tells them about this one.
There is no llms.txt on iol.co.za. Without it, AI engines guess what this business does from whatever page they happen to crawl — which is how wrong prices, wrong locations and wrong product descriptions end up inside AI answers.
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of 40 points
Who vouches for this domain. Strong, varied links are still the clearest signal of authority — to search engines and to AI engines that cite sources.
We haven't run a backlink crawl for iol.co.za yet, so there are no link counts to show. Backlink Analytics builds the profile on its first run and it appears here after that.
Sites already mentioning this brand
Found in a live web read — a mention is not the same as a link, but it is where links usually come from next.
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No paid search detected
100%
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We don't hold a month-by-month history for this domain yet.
The traffic dashboard builds one from the first scan onwards.
Missing
0/8 core fields
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robots ✗ · sitemap ✗
Not detected
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IOL shows up strongly in AI answers about South African news because it is a widely visited national publisher with broad topic coverage and a recognizable brand.
Topics this brand is known for
live webPerformance
Accessibility
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