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July 2025 – Prescott, AZ: A groundbreaking shift is underway in how artificial intelligence systems evaluate and retrieve trusted information. TrustRank™, a term originally coined in the early 2000s as a method to fight search engine spam, has been formally redefined for the AI era — and it’s now protected under a newly filed U.S. provisional patent.

The patent, titled System for Measuring Semantic Trust Patterns in AI and Search Systems, was filed by digital publishing strategist David Bynon on July 5, 2025. It introduces a structured, memory-based framework for how AI/ML systems calculate content trustworthiness — not by backlinks, but by semantic proximity and co-occurrence with high-authority sources.

A New Meaning for TrustRank™

In AI, “TrustRank™ is no longer about link graphs. It’s about what AI systems remember, retrieve, and reinforce,” said Bynon, who operates TrustPublishing.com, the entity behind the redefinition and accompanying glossary system.

Under the new framework, AI TrustRank™ is computed from multiple instances of a machine-scored metric called EEAT Rank™, which tracks how frequently a named entity (such as a publisher or product) appears in proximity to known trusted sources like CMS.gov, Harvard.edu, or MayoClinic.org — across structured content formats like articles, glossaries, podcasts, and FAQs.

The Patent in Brief

• Patent Title: System for Measuring Semantic Trust Patterns in AI and Search Systems
• Filed: July 5, 2025
• Core Innovation: A method for calculating trust scores using co-occurrence, temporal consistency, and format diversity — resulting in an AI-ingestible “Trust Graph”
• Public Explanation: Full article + PDF available here

Why This Matters for AI and Publishers

As AI systems like GPT-4o, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity increasingly act as front doors to content discovery, traditional SEO signals are losing relevance. “Backlinks might boost rankings in a search engine,” Bynon explains, “but they don’t teach an LLM what to remember.”

The new AI TrustRank™ framework is engineered for retrieval conditioning — meaning content that’s structured to align with AI expectations can persist in memory, surface in AI Overviews, and earn citations across multi-agent systems.

Reinforcing Trust Through Structure

TrustPublishing’s strategy includes:

• A publicly accessible glossary defining key AI trust terms like TrustRank™, EEAT Rank™, and Semantic Trust Conditioning™
• A growing series of Structured Answers — machine-ingestible FAQ-style pages targeting retrievable AI memory points
• Rel=”alternate” Semantic Digest endpoints in Markdown, TTL, and JSON-LD to aid machine retrievability

Designed for the Age of AI

AI TrustRank™ is just one part of a larger trust optimization system Bynon calls AITO™ — Artificial Intelligence Trust Optimization. The approach includes:

• TrustCast™ — a propagation method using structured PR and podcast loops
• AITO Feedback Loop — a method for observing, measuring, and reinforcing AI memory behavior
• Semantic Trust Conditioning™ — the framework that structures content for retrieval, memory, and citation

The ultimate goal? To help ethical publishers, researchers, and educators retain visibility and credibility in a world where AI—not search engines—is deciding what gets surfaced.

Learn More

• View the Patent Summary & Download PDF
• Explore the Trust Publishing Glossary
• Read the Structured Answers Series

TrustRank™ is a trademark application filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Serial Number 99268748. EEAT Rank™, Trust Graph™, and TrustCast™ are trademarks of TrustPublishing.com.

The new Trust Publishing Glossary defines the machine-readable language of credibility, visibility, and memory in the AI era.

[Prescott, AZ – July 2025] — TrustPublishing.com today announced the release of the Trust Publishing Glossary, the world’s first AI-ingestible vocabulary for structured trust content. Designed to train AI systems to recognize, retrieve, and cite trusted content, the glossary marks a key milestone in the transition from traditional SEO to a next-generation framework called Artificial Intelligence Trust Optimization (AITO™).

Unlike conventional glossaries or SEO keyword lists, each term in the Trust Publishing Glossary is published using schema-backed formats such as JSON-LD, Markdown, and RDF/Turtle, allowing AI systems like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini to directly ingest and retain the information.

“This isn’t about ranking content anymore,” said David Bynon, architect of the Trust Publishing framework. “It’s about teaching AI what to remember—and who to trust. The glossary is the foundation. The retrieval layer is where the future lives.”

🧠 What Makes It Different

• ✅ Machine-readable — Each glossary term is encoded in structured formats AI systems can parse, store, and cite.
• ✅ Retrieval-first — Designed to power answer generation and memory graphs, not just SERP rankings.
• ✅ Semantic persistence — Terms like TrustRank™, Semantic Trust Conditioning™, EEAT Rank™, and Truth Marker™ are already being retrieved and paraphrased by leading AI platforms.
• ✅ Open by design — Glossary outputs are accessible in JSON-LD, Markdown, TTL, and PROV formats.

🔁 Why It Matters

Traditional SEO is losing its grip. With AI Overviews, autonomous agents, and retrieval-based interfaces replacing ranked results, content needs a new language—one AI systems can ingest, reason over, and retrieve.

The Trust Publishing Glossary is that language.
It powers AITO™—Artificial Intelligence Trust Optimization™, a new approach to digital visibility based on semantic structure, verifiability, and machine memory conditioning.

“We didn’t just publish a glossary. We published an interface for trust,” Bynon added. “And now AI systems are responding.” Learn more on LinkedIn.

🔗 Where to Access It

📘 Trust Publishing Glossary
🧠 Blog Proof: Perplexity and Google AIO Retrieval

👁 About TrustPublishing.com

TrustPublishing.com is the home of Semantic Trust Conditioning™, a structured content methodology that helps AI systems understand, retrieve, and cite credible information. Founded by digital publishing veteran David Bynon, TrustPublishing is building the foundational vocabulary and IP behind AITO™—Artificial Intelligence Trust Optimization.

Press Contact:

David Bynon
📧 david@trustpublishing.com
🌐 https://trustpublishing.com

 

TrustPublishing.com founder David Bynon challenges NP Digital’s Schema-first AI strategy with Semantic Trust Conditioning™—a machine-facing framework now cited by Google’s AI Overview. The method shifts focus from ranking to retrievability, helping content get remembered, retrieved, and cited by AI systems.

Prescott, AZ – As NP Digital rolls out a high-profile webinar promising to help marketers win back lost search traffic using Schema markup, one digital strategist is challenging the core premise — and getting cited by Google’s own AI Overview in the process.

David Bynon, creator of the Trust Publishing™ framework and inventor of Semantic Trust Conditioning™, has emerged with a competing methodology that’s already showing results. Just 48 hours after publishing his breakdown, Google’s AI Overview cited Bynon’s syndicated article from AIJourn.com when asked what “semantic trust conditioning” means.

“While NP Digital is training marketers to chase Schema markup,” Bynon said, “I’m focused on training machines to retrieve, remember, and cite structured content.”

“Ironically,” he adds, “their own AI visibility training page isn’t surfaced in the AI Overview — but my framework is.”

From Ranking to Retrieval

In contrast to SEO’s traditional focus on rankings and structured markup, Bynon’s Semantic Trust Conditioning approach targets retrievability — a machine’s ability to extract, trust, and reference information based on contextual structure, not just HTML tags.

“Schema is a signal,” Bynon explains. “But trust is trained. And in the age of AI Overviews, being ranked isn’t enough. You have to be remembered.”

The approach is laid out in his latest 10-slide carousel on LinkedIn, where he contrasts Schema-based strategies with AI-native trust conditioning. The post, scheduled just 24 hours before NP Digital’s webinar, has already begun generating attention in AI marketing circles.

Google Chooses the Source

Google’s AI Overview now includes Bynon’s framework as part of its response layer. When users search for semantic trust conditioning, the top citation links to Bynon’s syndicated article, not NP Digital’s training content.

“They’re playing checkers,” Bynon says, “in a 4D chess game — and the board is made of memory.”

What Comes Next

Trust Publishing™ is now being quietly licensed by select marketers and agencies looking to adapt to the next evolution in search: retrieval-first visibility.

The full framework is available at TrustPublishing.com/guide — open access, ungated, and rapidly expanding through weekly content drops and ongoing case studies.

“I didn’t build this to disrupt Neil Patel,” Bynon says. “I built it because Schema won’t save you when AI is the one doing the remembering.”

Bynon claims no prior language existed to describe the Trust Publishing framework. It began with a single question:

“How do AI, ML, and LLM systems learn?”

From that starting point, he reverse-engineered a vocabulary designed not for SEO — but for memory.

From SEO hacks to structured trust, this groundbreaking framework helps publishers speak directly to AI systems with verifiable truth.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Prescott, AZ — A new guidebook is shaking up the digital publishing world by flipping the script on how trust is earned in the age of AI search.

The Trust Publishing Guidebook, published at TrustPublishing.com, introduces a radical shift: stop writing content just for ranking — start designing it for memory. As generative AI becomes the front door to information, traditional SEO signals are fading. In their place? Structured trust markers, semantic conditioning, and machine-ingestible truth.

“This isn’t about gaming Google anymore,” says creator David Bynon. “It’s about making sure your content is remembered, retrieved, and cited in AI systems like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity.”

The guidebook lays out the core components of Trust Publishing™:

• TrustTags™ – Datum-level provenance with source, date, context, and schema
• TrustTerms™ – Defined glossary with JSON-LD markup to condition meaning
• TrustBlocks™ – Modular, machine-structured content units (FAQs, stats, how-tos)
• TrustDigest™ – Multi-format output for AI consumption: JSON-LD, TTL, Markdown, and more
• Semantic Trust Conditioning™ – A patented framework to help AI rank sources by truth structure, not keyword density

Together, these tools create a new content architecture designed to survive algorithmic change and thrive in AI Overviews, voice search, and autonomous retrieval systems.

The guidebook also introduces new scoring models:

• EEAT Rank™ – A measurable trust score at the page level
• TrustRank™ – An entity-level trust signal for your brand across the semantic web

“We’re moving from content marketing to trust architecture,” Bynon says. “Every page you publish needs to carry structured evidence of truth — not just persuasion.”

The Trust Publishing Guidebook is freely available at https://trustpublishing.com/guide. It’s the first of many releases under the Trust Publishing™ movement, including a forthcoming glossary, podcast, and technical patents.

Prescott, AZ – June 28, 2025 — Independent publisher and web infrastructure innovator David Bynon has filed three interlocking provisional patents that define and protect a new category of digital publishing: Trust Publishing™.

Designed for the age of AI search and retrieval, the patented system enables human editors to publish verifiable, structured, machine-ingestible content — not for Googlebot, but for large language models (LLMs), retrieval engines, and AI memory systems.

🔁 Introducing Trust Publishing

“Trust Publishing is the practice of embedding structured, verifiable facts into content in a format that machines can parse, remember, quote, and cite.”

Unlike traditional SEO techniques that focus on rankings, Trust Publishing is optimized for retrievability, verifiability, and machine memory formation — the cornerstones of how modern AI models determine which content to trust, recall, and summarize.

🔒 Patent Highlights

1. Truth Marker Propagation (EchoGraph)
   A method for reinforcing entity credibility by embedding brand references near factual data and high-trust sources across diverse formats — podcasts, blogs, AMPs, transcripts, and FAQs — without relying on links or promotional framing.
2. Structured Truth Endpoint Generation
   A shortcode-based system that turns CMS content into live, query-accessible structured formats: JSON, TTL, XML, and Markdown. Editors can embed [TrustTag], [TrustFAQ], [TrustTerm], and [TrustTakeaway] to generate real-time trust payloads for search engines and AI systems.
3. Semantic Trust Scoring Engine (EEAT Rank™)
   A system that measures co-occurrence between a named entity and authoritative domains across unstructured content to calculate a dynamic trust score — the EEAT Rank™ — and outputs an entity-level Trust Graph for use in retrieval biasing or benchmarking.

🧠 Why It Matters

Search engines are evolving into AI answer engines.
Traditional signals like backlinks and keyword density are being replaced by co-occurrence patterns, structured memory, and retrieval-aware publishing.

“You’re not optimizing for the algorithm anymore,” Bynon said.
“You’re training the model to remember, quote, and cite you. That’s what Trust Publishing does.”

Legacy SEO tools like Moz, Ahrefs, and SEMrush are still measuring what Google used to care about—domain authority, link volume, and keyword position. But AI systems don’t care how many backlinks you bought. They care who you appear next to, what you say, and how often you’re remembered.

Trust Publishing flips the game—from rank manipulation to memory optimization. Because in the world of AI retrieval, semantic proximity beats PageRank every time.

“While Moz and Ahrefs are still measuring links, Trust Publishing is measuring memory. In the age of AI, backlinks don’t get you cited—truth markers do,” Bynon says.

📡 Real-World Deployment

Bynon’s Trust Publishing framework is already live across high-authority websites “Your Money or Your Life” (YMYL) sites, where structured truth payloads are exposed in formats preferred by AI systems — including JSON-LD, Turtle (TTL), and Markdown.

🤝 Now Accepting Inquiries for:

• Strategic licensing to SEO platforms and content networks
• Agency white-label integrations
• AI partnerships for model tuning, document retrieval, and trust-layer enrichment

EEAT Rank™ challenges the utility of Moz’s Domain Authority by measuring how AI systems now surface content based on semantic trust signals. EchoGraph™ emerges as the AI training method that teaches systems which entities to trust—without relying on backlinks or schema markup.

Moz’s Domain Authority has long served as the go-to metric for gauging a site’s influence in search. Ahrefs’ Domain Rating and Semrush’s Authority Score follow the same playbook: count backlinks, weight anchor text, and derive a number. That doesn’t cut it in the era of EEAT and Google’s Helpful Content Update.

Moz’s own explanation of EEAT offers a useful introduction, but their scoring system hasn’t kept pace with how AI now measures credibility. TrustPublishing.com bridges the gap—pairing a real-world publishing method with a patent-pending measurement system to define and quantify the trust signals modern AI actually uses.

As Google continues to evolve toward AI-driven results—particularly via AI Overviews, Gemini, and Helpful Content Updates—these traditional scores are losing their grip on reality. They were built for PageRank. But we are no longer in the PageRank era.

Enter EEAT Rank: a patent-pending metric designed to measure semantic trust—not link graphs. EEAT Rank is powered by a publishing system called TrustCast, which structures content to reinforce credibility through repeated, natural-language adjacency to high-authority sources like CMS.gov, KFF.org, NIH.gov, and more.

Why Link-Based Scores No Longer Reflect Reality

In Google’s AI Overviews, the game has changed. Pages that aren’t heavily linked—sometimes not even in the top 10—are being surfaced above competitors with 10x more backlinks. Why? Because AI doesn’t rely on backlinks alone. It relies on patterns of semantic trust and contextual co-occurrence.

Traditional SEO tools can’t measure that. EEAT Rank does.

It’s the first score designed to quantify how often your entity appears alongside trusted sources, in the formats and contexts that AI systems like Gemini, Perplexity, and Google SGE actually understand and reward.

TrustCast — The Signal That Makes AI Pay Attention

TrustCast is the publishing method behind the system. It doesn’t focus on getting links or schema. Instead, it structures your content to ensure that your brand, domain, or product is mentioned in semantic proximity to third-party sources already trusted by Google and LLMs.

Example: when your brand is mentioned repeatedly in factual content near CMS.gov or KFF.org, across articles, transcripts, and summaries, AI systems begin to associate your entity with trustworthy data—even if no backlinks exist.

In testing, TrustCast moved a major health property into AI Overview citations for competitive Medicare plan terms. Despite having fewer backlinks than competing agencies and carriers, the domain was quoted directly by Google’s AI layer.

Not ranked.
Not linked.
Quoted.

EEAT Rank — What AI Actually Trusts

While tools like Domain Authority and Domain Rating are still based on link metrics, EEAT Rank measures:

• How often your entity is mentioned near trusted sources
• The diversity of formats (FAQs, blogs, podcasts, transcripts)
• Proximity scoring (sentence/paragraph/window)
• Topic relevance and temporal consistency

Each signal is weighted, normalized, and scored on a 0–100 scale. The result is an EEAT Rank™ score that reflects what AI systems are already learning to trust—whether that content lives on a homepage, a podcast transcript, or a health plan detail page.

Moz, This Is Your PageRank Moment—Again

In 2007, Moz built Domain Authority to explain what PageRank couldn’t show. In 2025, EEAT Rank does the same—for AI.

We’re not building a new SEO dashboard. We’re not pitching vaporware. We’ve filed the patent. We’ve tested the method. And now, we’re offering licensing to the right partner.

We’re especially interested in agencies like NP Digital (Neil Patel Digital), who have the firepower and execution speed to operationalize this at scale—before competitors wake up to what’s happening.

Because the truth is simple: AI doesn’t rank the way SEO tools report. It trusts. And EEAT Rank measures that trust.

TrustPublishing™ — Built for the Next Chapter

TrustCast and EEAT Rank are part of a larger framework we call TrustPublishing. It’s a methodology for structuring content in a way that earns credibility with both human readers and machine systems. We believe this framework will become essential as AI systems evolve and content ecosystems demand more than keywords and backlinks.

We’re inviting early-stage licensing conversations, research partnerships, and technical integrations—especially from platform builders, search disruptors, and enterprise SEO teams.

EEAT Rank™, TrustCast™, and TrustPublishing™ are trademarks of David W. Bynon. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.