A practical guide to Google’s current paid-link policy, sponsored link qualification, and the backlink evidence site owners can verify.
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.
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.
An eeat checker confirms schema, links, and HTTPS — not credentials or truth. See the present/absent/unreachable model and worked scoring example.
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.
Run a GSC audit in 6 steps using first-party Search Console data — Manual actions, Performance, Page indexing, Core Web Vitals, Sitemaps, Links.
Why authority belongs in the TrustGrowth score: what authority measures, what it excludes, and how to inspect the evidence.
Learn how TrustGrowth score works, what it measures, why it changes, and where to verify live proof with timestamps and GSC-backed evidence.
A verified SEO defect case study: a duplicate H1 bug on two live pages, the audit that found it, the PR, deployment, and re-audit proof.