SEO that shows you its working.
Most tools in this market are sold by the page. They publish to a quota, report the count, and never tell you which of it was worth writing.
ShownTrue reads your site, imports the figures Google already publishes to you about it, and proposes changes with the reasoning attached. Every suggestion names the number it came from. Nothing reaches your website until you approve it.
Connect your site and your Search Console. Nothing is published without you.
showntrue.com, read by its own crawler
· one request a second
- Pages read
- 43
- Pages that failed
- 0
- Found through the sitemap
- 41
- Asking not to be indexed
- /sign-in
- Browser renders
- 0 (off for this run)
- Repeat links not fetched twice
- 1,403
The product’s crawl code, run from the command line. What the crawl records
What goes wrong when content is sold by the month
Three things, each of which makes the monthly report look better than the work.
Volume is the deliverable, so volume is what you get
A tool sold on "a hundred pages a month" has to produce a hundred pages, whether or not there are a hundred things worth writing about. The quota is the promise, so the quota gets met, and the pages that had nothing behind them are indistinguishable in the report from the ones that did.
Nobody checked whether anyone searches for it
Generating a page for every service crossed with every industry produces a great many addresses and a small number of subjects real people look for. The generator rarely asks which is which, because asking costs money per candidate and publishing does not.
You are shown the output, not the reasoning
A list of changes is easy to produce and hard to argue with, because the working is not there to disagree with. Being told a page was improved is not the same as being able to see which figure said so, and where that figure came from.
None of it is hidden, exactly. It is visible to anyone willing to open Search Console and check which of last month’s pages anybody actually found. Almost nobody checks, because the report arrives every month and the checking does not.
Where the build actually is
One of the four below has run against a real website. Three are built and not yet live, so they have never run for a customer. Each page opens with its own state and says what is missing, because a product that sells proof cannot be vague about itself.
Website crawl
Built, never run for a customerReads the pages of a site, follows its sitemap, and records what each page says about itself.
Search Console performance
Built, not yet liveImports your site’s own clicks, impressions and positions from Google, and keeps them by day.
The opportunity engine
Built, not yet liveRanks what to change next, and shows the working behind every suggestion.
Publishing, with a named approver
Built, not yet liveSends an approved change to the website, and refuses to send one that nobody approved.
“Built, never run for a customer” is the strongest claim on that list, and it is deliberately not the same as finished.
Four things this will never sell you
Each of these is sold elsewhere, usually inside the same monthly fee as the software, and none of them is software.
A page quota
No number of pages a month. A candidate that nothing is searching for does not become worth writing because the calendar says so.
Invented search volume
Every suggestion traces to your own crawl, your own Search Console figures, or what you told it. Where a third-party estimate appears at all, it is labelled as an estimate, because that is what it is.
A ranking guarantee
Nobody controls Google’s ranking systems. A promise of growth with no starting figure, no window and no method of attribution is priced as insurance.
Publishing without you
Nothing reaches your website until a person approves it, and the record of who approved it cannot be edited afterwards. The database refuses the write, so it is not a promise this page is making.
Start with your own site
Create an account, tell it which website you own, and connect the Search Console property you already have. It reads the site and works from your own figures. The capability pages say exactly what each piece does today and what it does not, which is the honest place to look before you decide.