Ravi Yadav

68 posts on the TrustGrowth blog, newest first.

68 posts on the TrustGrowth blog, newest first.

2026

October

Posts published in October 2026, newest first
DayPost
A strict reviewer is not a good reviewer Content Operations 7 min · AI-assisted

Rejecting everything catches every bad draft. A reviewer scorecard needs false passes, false blocks and abstention. We ran the test on our own review gate.

September

Posts published in September 2026, newest first
DayPost
A continuous SEO audit that admits when crawl budget cannot finish the site Technical SEO 7 min · AI-assisted

TrustGrowth's coverage model states page ceilings and inspection windows by plan, and reports unmeasured checks as unmeasured, not silently as pass.

Paid instant listings bought a launch-week burst. Free slow directories bought one followed link. Authority and Links 7 min · AI-assisted

We measured seven directory channels at D+30: paid listings delivered an early site-creation burst, while one free directory retained a followed link. See the data and decision rule.

AI Overviews and SEO: How to Track Visibility Without Fooling Yourself With a Single Sample AI Visibility 8 min · AI-assisted

Learn how to measure AI Overviews and SEO without misleading rates. Use query sampling, repeated observations, citation formulas, GSC comparisons, and uncertainty labels.

ChatGPT Citations: A Reproducible Method to Check If Your Site Is Cited (The Visibility Chain, Part 3, Retrieved) AI Visibility 13 min · AI-assisted

Do ChatGPT citations include your site? A reproducible fixed-prompt method with server-log corroboration, and the crawler user agents that precede a citation.

Google Search Console SEO audit: what query data proves and what it cannot Technical SEO 9 min · AI-assisted

Run a Google Search Console SEO audit with first-party visibility evidence and separate rankings from trust, conversions, and AI retrieval.

Why AI Visibility Scores Differ: Two Tools, One Site, 0% and 33% — and Both Were Right AI Visibility 10 min · AI-assisted

Why do two AI visibility tools score the same site 0% and 33%? Prompt taxonomy, sample size, model scope, run date, and result-state handling explain the difference.

What a writing benchmark score tells you, and what it does not Content Operations 7 min · AI-assisted

What an 80 on WritingBench or EQ-Bench establishes for a write, review, revise loop, and what it leaves open: version, judge, scale and truth.

Best AI visibility platforms with SEO capabilities: six criteria, and what a missing one costs AI Visibility 16 min · AI-assisted

Compare the best AI visibility platforms with SEO capabilities across 6 criteria, including AI-answer tracking, GSC verification, diagnostics, workflow, and evidence limits.

High Domain Rating, No Traffic: What Authority Scores Actually Measure Authority and Links 7 min · AI-assisted

Domain rating high but no traffic? Learn what DR measures, why clicks diverge, and how to diagnose indexation, intent, CTR, and links in GSC.

What the Record Shows After Referring Domains Rose From 1 to 8 Authority and Links 8 min · AI-assisted

A self-auditing TrustGrowth case study reports DataForSEO’s 8 referring domains for trustgrowth.ai on 2026-08-17 versus an earlier recorded 1, without claiming remediation, ranking, or traffic causation.

Who checks the AI that approves your article? Content Operations 8 min · AI-assisted

Writing benchmarks score the writer. The AI reviewer that gates your article is mostly taken on trust. What we found when we measured our own gate.

Does AI name your site?

Free, no account, about twenty seconds.