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.
We audited our own evaluator and found a fail-open scoring defect letting collection errors score neutral 50. Here's the finding, scope, and the fix.
An eeat checker confirms schema, links, and HTTPS — not credentials or truth. See the present/absent/unreachable model and worked scoring example.
457 keyword rows, 6 active claims. A sourced look at the qualification stage missing between content inventory and production, pulled 2026-08-17.
A real AI trust signals audit of trustgrowth.ai (2025-11-04): which signals fail verification and the exact fix-and-reverify steps for each.
Learn to spot SEO tool false positives caused by failed fetches, with a repeatable test, reason codes, and a documented PR #659 case study.
Learn what real SEO proof requires: permanent IDs, first-party GSC data, visible weak spots, and machine-readable records — tested on a live register.
Learn what a GEO score can measure today, what it cannot, and how TrustGrowth's GEO dimension scores structural readiness for AI extraction.
A bounded Fix My Site run: audit 614 flagged multiple_h1, a human merged the fix, we re-checked the live page. The live page is the checkable artifact.
Run a GSC audit in 6 steps using first-party Search Console data — Manual actions, Performance, Page indexing, Core Web Vitals, Sitemaps, Links.
Learn what a visibility score measures in Google Search Console-backed data, what it does not prove, and why it belongs in TrustGrowth.
Why authority belongs in the TrustGrowth score: what authority measures, what it excludes, and how to inspect the evidence.