About
Who's behind Brutally Honest Website Reviews
Brutally Honest Website Reviews is an 84-check SEO and AI-search audit built by Rich Benjamin, owner of RBA Marketing and Media in Sevierville, Tennessee. In our first audit round we graded 353 pages across 19 websites and found 14,208 issues. We audited our own site first: 9 pages, and not one earned an A.
What Brutally Honest Website Reviews is
Brutally Honest Website Reviews is an 84-check SEO and AI-search page audit, graded A+ to F-. Every page is checked across nine weighted areas — indexability and crawl access, title and head basics, heading structure, content quality and trust, AI search citability, structured data, social sharing, performance and mobile, and images, links and accessibility. Each finding comes with evidence quoted from the page itself, and anything we cannot measure is marked NOT VERIFIED rather than guessed at.
- 349 of 353 pages (99%) had at least one critical issue.
- 334 of 353 pages (95%) had no named, credentialed person behind the content.
- 320 of 353 pages (91%) had nothing unique for search or AI engines to cite.
Full breakdown: what we found auditing 353 pages. See the full list of 84 checks and how the score is calculated, or read a real sample report.
The scan is automated, and the critical findings are reviewed by Rich Benjamin before delivery. Get your free one-page grade.
Why we built a tool designed to make our own prospects look bad
Because a flattering audit is worthless. And because the reports have to be safe to act on — every criticism quotes real evidence, and anything unmeasurable is marked NOT VERIFIED rather than guessed at.
The audit itself checks whether there's a real named human behind a page's content. This page names ours: Rich Benjamin, below. The team at RBA Marketing and Media builds and maintains websites for clients across the Smokies — so when we tell you your page has a problem, we're the ones who'd fix it too.
The team
Rich Benjamin
Founder and Owner, RBA Marketing and Media
Rich Benjamin is the founder and owner of RBA Marketing and Media in Sevierville, Tennessee. He has over 15 years of experience in SEO, web development and digital marketing for businesses across the Smokies and beyond. He built Brutally Honest Website Reviews to hold his own prospects — and his own work — to the same standard the report applies to everyone else.
For clients who want the fixes done as well as found, see the parent site's services.
Talk to us
Call (865) 328-7990 or email info@rbamarketing.com, 9am–5pm Eastern, Monday–Friday. Want someone to walk you through your report? We offer a 30-minute walkthrough call. Contact us to set one up.
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