Ravi Yadav

68 posts on the TrustGrowth blog, newest first.

68 posts on the TrustGrowth blog, newest first.

2026

September

Posts published in September 2026, newest first
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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Posts published in August 2026, newest first
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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Does AI name your site?

Free, no account, about twenty seconds.