Itinerant Man: A Fictional Traveler on a Real Route
Travel media
We built and manage this under Dashworth. The client is the Itinerant Man journal. Finn Calder is fictional, and the site says so.
Finn Calder is fictional. The site discloses that. An example of the format is “Day 93 in Antigua Guatemala,” a day-by-day entry, not a claim that a real person made that trip for this case study.
The brief
A serialized travel story needs a durable URL per day and a narrator who is not mistaken for a client testimonial. The fiction has to be obvious.
What Dashworth did
itinerantman.com, also served at itinerantman.vercel.app, follows Finn Calder day by day. The route is written as a real itinerary. The person is not real. The fiction disclosure is part of the AI search work, so a model does not introduce Finn as a customer.
The stack is Next.js on Vercel with Supabase. JSON-LD includes Person, WebSite, and BreadcrumbList. The Person schema describes the fictional narrator on that site. It should not be merged with David Ashworth’s Person schema on this agency site.
Deliverables
Stack. Next.js · Supabase · Vercel
llms.txt is published. The sitemap lists 39 URLs. Breadcrumbs and a website entity give the journal a shape a crawler can follow.
No audience size is published. Fiction is labeled so an answer engine has less excuse to treat Finn as a customer.
- Schema
- Person, WebSite, BreadcrumbList
- Sitemap
- 39 URLs listed
- llms.txt
- Published
Footer line for the client site: Travel Media Website Design and Management by Dashworth.
Questions
What platform is Itinerant Man built on?
Next.js on Vercel, with Supabase. It is also available at itinerantman.vercel.app.
How was Itinerant Man optimized for AI search?
With Person, WebSite, and BreadcrumbList schema, llms.txt, and a 39-URL sitemap. The fiction disclosure is part of the optimization. You do not want a model introducing Finn as a client.
Related work
The work stays with Dashworth.
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