Professional SEO Audit Services

    SEO Audit Services That Find Revenue, Not Just Errors

    A 14-day, senior-strategist-led SEO audit covering technical, on-page, E-E-A-T, backlinks, competitive gap, and AI search visibility. Delivered as a prioritized 90-day roadmap your team or another agency can execute, not a 200-page PDF.

    $995 flat · Credited toward any retainer

    What a Professional SEO Audit Covers

    Six audit components, one written report, one live executive readout.

    Technical SEO Crawl

    Full site crawl covering indexation, canonicalization, robots.txt, XML sitemap health, Core Web Vitals, mobile usability, structured data, and JavaScript rendering issues that block ranking.

    On-Page & Content Audit

    Title tags, meta descriptions, heading structure, internal linking depth, content quality, and keyword cannibalization across your highest-value pages and service categories.

    E-E-A-T & Trust Signal Review

    Author bios, credentials, citations, review velocity, and brand mention analysis benchmarked against the sites currently ranking in your space.

    Backlink Profile Health

    Referring domain quality, anchor text distribution, toxic link detection, and lost-link recovery, plus a prioritized link-building target list for the next 90 days.

    Competitive Gap Analysis

    Keyword gap, content gap, and SERP feature ownership analysis against your top three competitors so you know exactly which pages to build, rewrite, or retire next.

    AI Search Visibility Check

    How your brand currently surfaces in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews for your target queries, plus the structured-data and content fixes that will get you cited.

    Why Most SEO Audits Waste Your Time

    Automated reports flag thousands of low-impact issues and miss the few that actually move revenue

    Generic checklists don't account for your industry, your competitors, or your local market

    No prioritization by revenue impact, so your team doesn't know what to fix first

    E-E-A-T and AI search visibility are ignored, even though they now drive a growing share of qualified traffic

    Recommendations sit in a PDF instead of becoming a sequenced 90-day execution plan

    SEO Audit FAQs

    Ready to See What Your SEO Is Actually Worth?

    Fixed-price, two-week turnaround, senior strategist. Credited toward any retainer if you decide to keep working with us.

    What a real audit produces, and why most are worthless

    The audit market is full of automated exports. A tool crawls your site, flags four hundred issues sorted by its own severity scale, and the report lands as a PDF nobody acts on because it cannot tell you which three of those four hundred items are actually costing you money. A useful audit does the opposite: it is short, it is ranked by revenue impact, and every item is specified well enough for a developer to implement without a follow up meeting.

    This is the right purchase when you suspect something is wrong but cannot name it. Traffic slid and nobody knows why. A migration went live and rankings did not recover. An agency relationship ended and you want an independent read before hiring the next one. In each case you are buying a diagnosis, not a retainer, and you should be able to hand the output to any competent team.

    It also works as a pre purchase check. Buyers of service businesses, private equity operators and boards increasingly want to know whether the acquired company's inbound pipeline is durable or propped up by tactics that will not survive the next algorithm update. That analysis looks different from a marketing audit and we scope it differently.

    When an audit is not what you need

    • You already know the problems and simply lack capacity to fix them. Buy the implementation instead; a second diagnosis changes nothing.
    • The site is being replaced in the next quarter. Audit the new build before launch rather than the site you are discarding.
    • You want a proposal dressed as an audit. We charge for this work precisely so the findings are not shaped by what we would like to sell next.

    How the audit is conducted

    A full audit runs two to three weeks depending on site size. The output is a prioritized action list, a walkthrough call, and the raw data behind every finding.

    Data assembly

    Full crawl, log file review where server logs are available, search console export across the full retention window, analytics, and current ranking data. Log files matter more than most people expect, because they show what crawlers actually did rather than what a tool assumes they did.

    Diagnosis

    We separate the site into problems of crawl, index, quality, relevance and authority, because the remedy differs entirely by category. A page that is not indexed and a page that is indexed but ranked poorly look identical in a traffic report and share no solution.

    Competitive contrast

    We take the terms that matter commercially and examine what the pages currently beating you are doing: depth, structure, freshness, internal support and external citation. This converts vague advice into a specific bar to clear.

    Prioritized delivery

    Findings are ranked by estimated revenue impact against implementation effort, written as tickets with acceptance criteria, and walked through live so your team can challenge the reasoning rather than receive a document.

    How you know the audit was worth the money

    An audit does not generate traffic. It generates decisions. These are the checks we would apply to our own work.

    Findings your team can implement without clarification

    Every item should name the affected URLs, the specific change, and what correct looks like after deployment. If a finding needs a follow up call to be actionable, it was not finished.

    Share of findings tied to a revenue mechanism

    Each priority item should connect to inquiries through a stated chain: this template change affects these pages, which serve these queries, which produce this share of inbound. Findings that cannot make that connection belong in an appendix.

    Index coverage movement after remediation

    The first observable proof. Once technical items ship, the share of important URLs indexed should move within two to four weeks, well before ranking changes appear.

    Time to first ranking movement on named pages

    We identify specific URLs we expect to move and by roughly when. Being held to that prediction is uncomfortable and it is the correct standard.

    What an audit cannot tell you

    • It cannot prove causation for a historical traffic drop. We can rank the likely causes by evidence strength, and we will say when the evidence is thin rather than assert a tidy story.
    • It cannot fix anything. Value only appears when items ship, and the most common failure is a good audit sitting unimplemented for a year.
    • It cannot see competitor internals. We infer from what is public, which is usually enough but is not the same as knowing.
    • It cannot substitute for content investment. Many audits conclude that the site is technically fine and simply lacks depth, which is a harder answer to hear than a list of quick fixes.

    Natural next steps after a diagnosis

    Organic SEO

    The obvious follow through when findings point to relevance and depth rather than technical debt.

    Website design

    When the audit concludes the platform itself is the constraint, a rebuild beats years of patches.

    Growth audit

    A wider diagnostic covering paid, conversion and lifecycle alongside search.

    Questions about the audit process

    How long does it take?

    Two to three weeks for most sites. Very large or heavily programmatic sites take longer because sampling is not sufficient to reach reliable conclusions.

    What access do you need?

    Search Console, analytics, and read access to the site. Server logs and CMS access improve the analysis significantly but are not strictly required.

    Will you implement the fixes?

    We can, and we are equally happy handing the document to your team or another agency. The audit is written to be usable by anyone competent.

    Do you audit sites you did not build?

    Almost always. Independent review is most of the value, and we are candid when the existing work is good and the problem lies elsewhere.

    What if you find nothing significant?

    Then we say so and point at where the actual constraint sits, which is frequently conversion or sales follow up rather than search. That is a useful finding, not a failed engagement.