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About the audit
What is an SEO audit?
A check of your website for the things that stop it from showing up on Google: pages Google can’t find, slow loading, problems on phones, weak titles, missing pages and broken links. Ours reads your site the way Google does and shows your score and what holds it back; on Pro, the full report marks each problem on a screenshot of your own pages.
What does your SEO audit include?
Nine areas: indexing, speed, the phone version, titles and headings, content, local search, links, structured data and security. The full list, with what Pro adds, is on the what we check page.
How long does an SEO audit take?
The free check of your home page takes about 30 seconds. On Pro, the check takes in 10 more pages, and the full report written by hand arrives by email.
What do you need from me?
Your website address and an email for your sign-in code. We don’t need passwords or access to your site.
Why screenshots in the full report?
A list of 200 warnings gets ignored. A screenshot of your own page with the problem circled shows where it is and why it matters in a few seconds, and you can forward it to whoever built your site. The full report on Pro is laid out that way.
Do you check the phone version?
Yes. The check makes sure your page is set up for phones, and the full report on Pro reads the phone version on its own, with screenshots of both. Google uses the phone version of your site to rank it, and plenty of sites that look fine on a laptop break on a phone.
What kinds of sites can you check?
Any public website: WordPress, Shopify, Wix, Squarespace, Webflow or hand-built. Local businesses, online shops, clinics, blogs.
How often should a website get an SEO audit?
After any redesign, platform move or big drop in traffic, and otherwise about once a year. Redesigns are when indexing slips, like a forgotten noindex tag, happen most.
Price
Is the audit really free?
Yes. You sign up with your email, no card and no call. The check of your home page is free; Pro, at $29 a month, shows everything else, and fixes are priced per job only if you ask.
What does the free check cover?
Your home page, against what Google checks: indexing, security, the phone version, speed, titles and headings, local details, structured data, content and links. You see your score, what is critical, to change and passed, and the first findings of each group.
What does Pro add?
Up to 3 websites, every finding with its fix step by step, 10 more pages in every check, checks on demand (one an hour per website), 300 tool runs a day, and the full report, written by hand with every problem circled.
How does Pro billing work?
Pro is $29 a month, paid by card through Stripe. It renews each month until you cancel. Under Billing in your account you can change your card, see your invoices or cancel; after cancelling, Pro stays on until the end of the month you paid for.
What do the fixes cost?
It depends on the job: how many pages are involved, how your site is built, and whether a fix is a setting or a rebuild. Changing 20 page titles is a small job; giving six services their own pages is a bigger one.
You choose the fixes from your report, we send a written price for exactly those, and you decide.
Do I have to hire you after the check?
No. Your check and your report are yours to use however you like, including handing them to someone else.
After the check
Can I fix the problems myself?
Usually, yes. On Pro, every finding comes with its fix, step by step. Some need your web person; some you can do in your site builder in a few minutes.
Can you get me to the top of Google?
Nobody can honestly promise a position on Google. What we can do is find what is holding your site back and fix it properly, and the check shows you exactly what that is.
Your data
What happens to my email?
We use it for your sign-in codes and to reply to you, and Stripe has it if you take Pro. We don’t sell it, and we don’t add it to a mailing list. The privacy policy has the details.
You sent me an audit I didn’t ask for. Why?
We look for sites with problems we can fix and send the audit first, so you can judge the work before anyone talks about money.
If you’d rather not hear from us, reply “no thanks” and we won’t write again.
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Check your website free
Your website and your email. The check takes about 30 seconds.
