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68 posts on the TrustGrowth blog, newest first.
2026
September
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An AI Visibility Score Without Error Bars Is a Horoscope
AI Visibility
12 min · AI-assisted
An AI visibility score without error bars can't be verified — see why a mention rate needs its sample size and a 95% Wilson interval, with a worked example. |
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Branded vs Unbranded AI Prompts: The Split That Decides Your Score
AI Visibility
8 min · AI-assisted
Branded vs unbranded AI prompts measure recall vs discovery. See why the ratio in your prompt set decides your AI visibility score before a single prompt runs. |
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The Marketing Truth Guard Test: Making an Unsubstantiated Pricing Claim Mechanically Unsayable
Content Operations
14 min · AI-assisted
We deleted ten unsubstantiated cadence claims from our marketing copy and shipped a CI test so they cannot return. Inside the marketing truth guard test. |
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AI visibility checker: A step-by-step method to measure your brand in AI search
AI Visibility
10 min · AI-assisted
Use an AI visibility checker to measure brand mentions, citations, retrieval, crawler access, and competitors across ChatGPT, Gemini, and AI search. |
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What llms.txt is and how to publish one
AI Visibility
6 min · AI-assisted
What llms.txt is, how it differs from robots.txt, and how to publish and check one. File presence and parseability only; not rankings or citations. |
August
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Four directory submissions, one followed link: what two weeks of listing actually returned
Authority and Links
6 min · AI-assisted
We submitted TrustGrowth to four software directories and measured what came back: publication lag, rel values, tracking-parameter handling, and cash. One followed link out of the cohort. |
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Brand Mentions in ChatGPT: A Diagnostic, Not a Mystery
AI Visibility
10 min · AI-assisted
Why your brand mentions in ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini are missing: a six-link diagnostic covering crawl access, indexation, citations, and sampled testing. |
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What an E-E-A-T audit checklist actually checks (and the four things it cannot judge)
E-E-A-T and Trust Signals
9 min · AI-assisted
Run a reproducible E-E-A-T audit with GSC, JSON-LD, authorship, HTTPS, and QRG checks—and learn what no audit can judge. |
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Buying Backlinks: What Google’s Documentation Actually Says
Authority and Links
5 min · AI-assisted
A practical guide to Google’s current paid-link policy, sponsored link qualification, and the backlink evidence site owners can verify. |
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We Collated Our Own Keyword List. It Got Shorter.
Content Operations
8 min · AI-assisted
Operator reads of our keywords list: 405 rows (2026-08-05) became 291 (2026-08-20). Token-signature grouped duplicates; similarity folded ahrefs with ahrefs ai. |
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Position 9, 14 Impressions, Zero Clicks on "AI Trust Signals Audit"
E-E-A-T and Trust Signals
10 min · AI-assisted
An ai trust signals audit page ranks #9 with 14 impressions and 0 clicks. See the GSC data, what it proves, and a reproducible diagnostic method. |
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We Cut Our Own Trust Score From 73 to 32
Scoring Methodology
8 min · AI-assisted
Our own product scored our five-month-old site 73/100 with zero clicks and seven referring domains. Here's why that number meant nothing, and what we replaced it with. |
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