VettedReceipts helps families compare Washington assisted living and nursing homes with posted starting rents and official state inspection reports, without giving a phone number. We launched on Wednesday, October 28, 2026. This page is where we publish our growth experiment and the results we get each week, good or bad.
Last updated
Where we stand (Week 2, Monday, Nov 9, 2026)
Started: Oct 28, 2026, about 8:15 PM PT
Pages in our sitemap: 302 (78 on day 0)
Public site: search results: 0
Tracked family searches where we show in the top 5: 0 of 12
Short version: the site is built and healthy, but search engines are not showing it yet. It is still early.
1. The growth experiment: search and AI answers
Hypothesis: a site built on verified first-party data (prices communities post themselves, official Washington inspection and license records) and a clean structure can get indexed and rank for the searches families actually type, against estimate-directory sites and raw government lookup pages.
Test: Washington city and community pages for licensed assisted living and nursing homes, with operator-posted starting rents where we have them and links to official inspection reports. Pages carry structured data (schema.org), the site has an llms.txt summary for AI tools, AI crawlers are allowed in robots.txt, and we keep a sitemap and send IndexNow pings.
What we measure, every Monday around 9:00 AM PT: (1) public site: searches for vettedreceipts.com and vettedreceipts.netlify.app; (2) whether we appear in the top 5 for the same 12 family searches each week; (3) sitemap size and whether key pages load; (4) an IndexNow resubmit. Official Google and Bing index counts will be added once Search Console and Bing Webmaster are connected (they are not yet). Our current method sees only the top 5 results, so positions 6–20 are not measured.
What success looks like: public site: results above zero; showing up in the top 5 for the family searches we track; later, real visits from families and, when the business is ready, private-pay assisted living and memory care referrals. We do not earn a referral fee yet.
Status: launched Oct 28, 2026; custom domain live by Nov 2. As of Week 2 (Monday, Nov 9, 2026): 0 public site: results and not in the top 5 for any of the 12 searches. Results are still early.
2. Honest status: results by week
Each Monday check gets a new row. Older rows stay so you can see the change over time.
“site:” = how many of our pages a public site: search showed. Official Google and Bing index counts: not measured (Search Console and Bing Webmaster are not connected yet). Positions 6–20: not measured.
3. The 12 family searches we track
Same searches every week. Our checking tool returns only the top 5 results.
Search we track
Day 0
Week 1
Week 2
1. assisted living cost seattle
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2. washington nursing home inspection reports
Not in top 5
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Not in top 5
3. dshs form 10-509 (we track this because people search it; the assisted living form is DSHS 10-351)
Not in top 5
Not in top 5
Not in top 5
4. assisted living medicaid washington
Not in top 5
Not in top 5
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5. memory care bellevue cost
Not in top 5
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6. spokane assisted living prices
Not in top 5
Not in top 5
Not in top 5
7. washington assisted living facility disclosure of charges form DSHS
Not in top 5
Not in top 5
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8. assisted living inspection reports washington state lookup
Not in top 5
Not in top 5
Not in top 5
9. nursing home medicaid daily rate washington 2026
Not in top 5
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10. assisted living tacoma cost
Not in top 5
Not in top 5
Not in top 5
11. memory care certified assisted living washington list
Not in top 5
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12. assisted living vancouver wa medicaid
Not in top 5
Not in top 5
Not in top 5
“Not in top 5” means we did not appear in the first five results. Positions 6–20 were not measured, so this is not a claim that we are absent from those spots.
4. Weekly snapshots
Newest first. We do not rewrite old snapshots.
Week 2 · Monday, Nov 9, 2026
Sitemap: 302 URLs (was 296 on Nov 2).
Public site:vettedreceipts.com: 0. site:vettedreceipts.netlify.app: 0.
Not in the top 5 for any of the 12 tracked searches. Positions 6–20 not measured.
Search Console and Bing Webmaster: still not connected, so official index counts were not measured. Bing ignored the site: search in our check; DuckDuckGo blocked it.
IndexNow key file live; all 302 URLs resubmitted, HTTP 200 OK. Key pages load on both addresses.
Competitor change worth watching: waseniorsupport.org held 4 of the top 5 results for “assisted living vancouver wa medicaid.”
Week 1 · Monday, Nov 2, 2026
Custom domain vettedreceipts.com live (HTTP 200); www redirects to the main domain.
Sitemap: 296 URLs.
Public site:vettedreceipts.com: 0. site:vettedreceipts.netlify.app: 0.
Not in the top 5 for any of the 12 tracked searches. Positions 6–20 not measured.
Search Console and Bing Webmaster: not connected, so official index counts were not measured.
What changed in the top 5 (other sites, for context): allykin.com entered for Seattle costs; findcandor.org for Spokane prices; ProPublica for Washington nursing home inspection reports. The DSHS 10-351 form is now the top result for the disclosure-form search.
Day 0 · Wednesday, Oct 28, 2026, about 8:15–8:17 PM PT
The site went live on vettedreceipts.netlify.app. The custom domain vettedreceipts.com was not live yet.
Sitemap: 78 URLs (76 pages plus llms.txt and llms-full.txt).
IndexNow (the instant-indexing service Bing and others use): submitted around 8:15 PM PT, HTTP 202 Accepted. Key file live (HTTP 200).
Public site:vettedreceipts.netlify.app search: 0 results. Expected for a same-day launch.
Not in the top 5 for any of the 12 tracked searches. Positions 6–20 not measured.
Google: not measured (no Search Console yet). Bing check: inconclusive. DuckDuckGo: blocked our check.
While running the baseline we found that DSHS form 10-509 is not the assisted living form. The correct form is DSHS 10-351 (Disclosure of Services), plus written charges under RCW 70.129.030. We fixed the site.
5. Page speed
Day 0 (Oct 28, 2026): Google Lighthouse scored the homepage and the Seattle page 100 for performance, accessibility, best practices and SEO on both mobile and desktop. The A–Z directory reached 100 after we made its letter links easier to tap.
Nov 8, 2026, after we added city maps: homepage 96 on mobile and 100 on desktop; Tacoma city page 74 on mobile and 96 on desktop. The slowest part of the Tacoma page was a map image tile. These are our own local Lighthouse runs.
6. Why we built it
Most families cannot see a starting rent until they call or fill out a form. Washington inspection reports are public, but they are scattered and hard to compare. We put those records on one site and add only prices we can show a source for, so families can see starting rents and official inspection reports without giving a phone number.
Prices never come from reviews. Every posted price comes from a community’s own website or from a dated reported price a family shared. Care fees are usually extra. Read more about us, or see every price and source-link correction on our Pricing & Accuracy Change Log.
7. What we’ve shipped
Dated items only. Price and source corrections are listed in full on the change log.
Oct 28, 2026: Launched with 76 pages and recorded the day 0 search baseline. Each inspection citation now links to that facility’s own DSHS report page instead of a generic state search page.
Oct 28, 2026: Our baseline check found the wrong form number. We now point families to DSHS 10-351 (Disclosure of Services) and their right to written charges under RCW 70.129.030. That guide now lives at /senior-care/wa/assisted-living-price-disclosure/; the old address redirects there.
Nov 2, 2026: Custom domain vettedreceipts.com went live; sitemap at 296 URLs. Fixed three source links: King County kitchen inspections, the WA Department of Health license lookup, and the WA DSHS nursing home rates page.
Nov 9, 2026: Price updates from operator websites: Aegis Living (Queen Anne at Rodgers Park) starting rent $3,952 → $4,500 a month; GenCare Lifestyle (Point Ruston) studio $4,640 → $4,975 a month.
Nov 9, 2026: Started this Build in Public page.
8. How often we publish
Search and indexing check: every Monday around 9:00 AM PT. The results go on this page as a new dated snapshot.
Prices: we re-check posted prices weekly or every other week. Price and source-link corrections go on the change log with the before and after values.
Not in this snapshot yet: Google Search Console clicks and impressions (not connected), Bing Webmaster data (not connected), and site visit numbers from Google Analytics (we have not published them for this site yet). We will add them here when we can show the source.