GoGuides is an independent public trust and discovery system for websites. It maintains search results, public Trust Records, domain history, machine-readable signals, Verified Text records, and owner-connected Trust Signals.

Does paying GoGuides improve AI Rank or organic search position?

No. Payment does not buy a better AI Rank, erase policy restrictions, guarantee indexing, or purchase preferred placement in GoGuides search.

What is the difference between an observed Trust Record and an activated Trust Signal?

An observed Trust Record is created from public crawl and evaluation data. An activated Trust Signal connects an eligible claimed domain to an owner account and can include ownership verification, publishing tools, Bot Radar, and stronger machine-readable context.

Does a GoGuides Trust Record guarantee that a website is safe or truthful?

No. GoGuides reports observable signals, policy state, history, freshness, and verification context. It is not a security certificate, factual guarantee, or truth oracle.

GoGuides Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What does the current Trust Signal offer include?

The current introductory offer is $69.95 for one eligible domain. It includes lifetime Trust Signal activation for that domain and the first year of Bot Radar. Continued Bot Radar access is expected to renew at $69.95 per year after the included year.

Answers about GoGuides Trust Records, AI Rank, public eligibility, Trust Signals, Bot Radar, Verified Text, machine-readable data, submissions, pricing, privacy, and website crawling.

The GoGuides promise

GoGuides is built around a few rules that should remain easy to understand:

No pay-to-rank. Payment does not buy organic ranking positions or a better AI Rank.
Public state should be inspectable. Trust Records, history, freshness, policy state, and verification context should be visible.
Observed is not verified. Crawling a domain does not mean its owner has claimed or verified the record.
Transparency is not endorsement. A historical record may remain visible even when positive Trust Signal presentation is unavailable.

New to GoGuides? Start with About GoGuides, check a domain at Website Trust Record Lookup, or explore all public tools from Navigation.

Basics Trust Records AI Rank & Eligibility Crawling Trust Signal & Pricing Bot Radar Verified Text Machine Use Favicon Privacy Limits

Basics

What is GoGuides?

GoGuides is an independent public trust and discovery system for websites. It operates its own quality-gated search index and maintains public domain Trust Records, history, verification context, machine-readable signals, Bot Radar activity, and source-attributed Verified Text records.

Is GoGuides still being developed?

Yes. GoGuides is operational, but crawling, evaluation, search quality, policy enforcement, Trust Records, Bot Radar, and machine-readable services continue to be improved. See the Roadmap.

Does GoGuides use another search engine’s results?

No. GoGuides builds and operates its own index from public crawl data. It may use lawful public datasets for supporting information such as spelling, classification, or entity context.

Is this the same GoGuides as the old directory?

The name and history continue, but the current platform was rebuilt with new technology, active web observation, public Trust Records, policy controls, machine-readable endpoints, and owner-connected Trust Signals. Read more on About GoGuides.

Public Trust Records

What is a GoGuides Trust Record?

A Trust Record is a public report showing what GoGuides currently knows about a domain from its own observation and evaluation systems. It may include AI Rank, grade, policy state, verification state, freshness, history, Trust ID, record fingerprint, and machine-use guidance.

Does a Trust Record mean the owner joined GoGuides?

No. GoGuides may observe and maintain a record for a publicly accessible domain even when its owner has never created an account.

What is the difference between observed, claimed, activated, and verified?

Observed: GoGuides has seen or evaluated the domain.
Claimed: a user account has connected itself to the domain.
Activated: eligible paid Trust Signal services are enabled.
Verified: domain ownership has been confirmed.

Why might a held or blocked domain still have a history page?

GoGuides separates historical transparency from positive endorsement. A restricted domain may retain a public status record while badges, positive rank presentation, or Trust Signal broadcasting remain unavailable.

AI Rank and Public Eligibility

What is AI Rank?

AI Rank is a GoGuides score from 0 to 100 summarizing measured website quality signals. It is not a score issued by OpenAI or another outside company.

How do AI Rank scores map to grades?

AI Rank	Grade	General interpretation
0–34	F	Below the normal GoGuides quality threshold.
35–39	C-	Weak measured quality.
40–44	C	Limited or inconsistent quality signals.
45–49	C+	Some useful signals, but not yet strong.
50–54	B-	A workable foundation with room to improve.
55–59	B	Generally useful and reasonably structured.
60–64	B+	Strong measured quality signals.
65–69	A-	High measured quality.
70–84	A	Strong quality and trust-related signals.
85–100	A+	Exceptional measured quality.

Does a score of 35 or higher guarantee indexing?

No. Public eligibility also depends on current policy state, resolver rules, crawl condition, restricted-category enforcement, and other public-display rules.

Can payment or verification improve AI Rank?

No. Payment does not buy a better AI Rank, remove a policy restriction, guarantee indexing, or purchase preferred search placement.

Indexing and Crawling

Why did GoGuides crawl my website?

GoGuides crawls publicly accessible websites to build its search index, evaluate domain state, maintain Trust Records, measure freshness, and update public history. See crawler information.

Does a crawl mean my site is indexed or approved?

No. Crawling, indexing, public eligibility, activation, and verification are separate states.

Can I limit GoGuides crawling?

Website owners can publish crawler instructions through robots.txt and standard access controls. See Robots.txt vs Trust Layer.

Trust Signal Activation and Pricing

Does GoGuides charge to submit a site?

No. Website submission is currently free.

What is an activated Trust Signal?

An activated Trust Signal connects an eligible domain to owner-managed GoGuides services such as ownership verification, badge publishing, machine-readable context, and Bot Radar.

What does the current $69.95 introductory offer include?

The current offer is $69.95 one time for one eligible domain. It includes lifetime Trust Signal activation for that domain and the first year of Bot Radar. Continued Bot Radar access is expected to renew at $69.95 per year per domain after the included year. See the current offer.

Does lifetime Trust Signal mean lifetime Bot Radar?

No. The Trust Signal activation remains active for the selected eligible domain under the current offer. Bot Radar is an ongoing monitoring service.

AI Bot Radar

What does Bot Radar show?

Bot Radar reports supported AI and search-system requests observed at GoGuides endpoints in connection with a domain. It may show system names, timing, freshness, and check counts.

Does Bot Radar prove an AI company trained on my website?

No. Bot Radar records requests observed by GoGuides. It does not prove model training, endorsement, or how an outside company used the information.

Verified Text

What is Verified Text?

Verified Text is a public registry of source-attributed text records with stable identifiers, canonical pages, structured metadata, and SHA-256 hashes. Explore Verified Text Search or the public library.

What does a Verified Text hash prove?

It proves that retrieved text matches the stored GoGuides record. It does not prove every statement in the underlying source is factually correct.

Machine-Readable Data

Does GoGuides provide machine-readable endpoints?

Yes. Start with Machine Discovery JSON, the integration guide, or Signal JSON.

What does machine-use guidance mean?

It summarizes how GoGuides interprets the current record for actions such as reading, summarizing, citing, recommending, sensitive advice, or transactions. It does not control outside systems.

Favicon and Badge Tools

What is the GoGuides favicon system?

It is a compact visual surface generated from GoGuides record state. It is informational—not a browser security certificate or guarantee.

Can every domain publish a GoGuides badge?

No. Badge and positive Trust Signal publishing depend on eligibility, activation, verification, and policy state.

Privacy

Does GoGuides track people across the web?

GoGuides does not need cross-site advertising profiles to operate. It records normal operational data needed for accounts, security, crawling, submissions, public records, and service measurement. See the Privacy Policy.

Limits, Safety and Legal Questions

Does GoGuides guarantee that a website is safe or truthful?

No. GoGuides is not a security certificate, legal approval, factual guarantee, professional recommendation, or truth oracle.

Does GoGuides guarantee uptime, indexing, rank, or AI visibility?

No. GoGuides cannot control whether an outside search engine, crawler, AI system, or platform indexes, cites, recommends, or sends traffic to a website.

Has Ask GoGuides AI been retired?

Yes. The former API-powered question service was retired so it cannot create ongoing AI API charges. Public documentation, Navigation, Trust Record lookup, Verified Text, and Feedback remain available.

GoGuides in one line:
Public trust context should be observable, inspectable, and separate from payment.