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68 posts on the TrustGrowth blog, newest first.
2026
October
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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
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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