Fact Verification and Source Audit: Which Claims on Your Site Can Be Backed Up?
Statistics, rankings and bold claims without a source or date lose trust. Audit the factual statements on key pages and add evidence, dates and references.
Statistics, rankings and bold claims without a source or date lose trust. Audit the factual statements on key pages and add evidence, dates and references.
Search engines keep a stored copy of your page. When it differs from the live version, snippets and rankings suffer. Spot the drift and get the index refreshed.
The words inside an internal link describe the page it leads to. Find vague, repeated or missing anchor text and rewrite it so each link carries real context.
An orphan page has no internal links pointing to it, so crawlers and visitors rarely find it. Learn how to detect them and decide whether to link, merge or remove each.
When a heading asks a question and the answer sits three paragraphs down, both people and machines struggle. Measure the gap and move answers to the top.
If key content only exists after scripts run, some crawlers will never see it. Compare raw HTML with the rendered page and move critical content into the first response.
Some pages are live but blocked, excluded or ignored by search engines. Here is how to list them, find the reason for each, and decide which ones should be fixed.
Robots directives like nosnippet and max-snippet change how your page appears in results. Audit them so you aren't limiting your listing by accident.
Naming a source is not the same as attributing it well. Review how your pages credit data, quotes and ideas so readers and AI systems can trace each claim back.
AI systems lean on what other sites say about a brand. Find the reviews, lists and articles that feature competitors, then plan honest ways to earn your place.