Buying Backlinks: What Google’s Documentation Actually Says
A practical guide to Google’s current paid-link policy, sponsored link qualification, and the backlink evidence site owners can verify.
SEO tips, product updates, and growth strategies for indie SaaS.
Learn how TrustGrowth score works, what it measures, why it changes, and where to verify live proof with timestamps and GSC-backed evidence.
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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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.
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.
How TrustGrowth infers E-E-A-T from GSC data: API endpoints, scored dimensions, published uncertainty ranges, and stated limitations — dated 2026-07-28.
457 keyword rows, 6 active claims. A sourced look at the qualification stage missing between content inventory and production, pulled 2026-08-17.
Check whether GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and five other AI crawlers can reach your site across robots.txt, HTTP, CDN/WAF, and access-log layers - and date every result.
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.