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SEO Audit

Site Audit

Portrait of Robert Klimant, co-founder of Roelu Studio
Robert KlimantCo-founder

What is SEO Audit?

An SEO audit is a comprehensive review of a website's search engine optimization health, covering technical SEO, on-page SEO, off-page SEO, content quality, and rankings. Also called a site audit, it identifies issues blocking organic performance — crawl errors, indexing problems, slow pages, thin content, broken links, missing metadata — and prioritizes them by impact. The output is a remediation roadmap tied to expected results.

Why it matters

Every scale-up site we audit has issues that have been quietly capping growth for months. Pages that don't get indexed. Title tags duplicated across templates. Canonical tags pointing to the wrong URL. Sitemaps still listing pages deleted last year. A proper SEO audit surfaces all of it. The cheap version — "we'll run a Semrush report and email you the PDF" — is worthless. The valuable version is hands-on: a human reviewing what the tools flagged, deciding what actually matters, and writing a prioritized fix list that ties to revenue, not just to traffic.

How it works

A full SEO audit covers four layers. Technical: crawlability, indexability, site speed, mobile-friendliness, structured data, sitemap, robots.txt. On-page: title tags, meta descriptions, heading structure, content depth, internal linking, and keyword targeting. Off-page: backlink profile health, referring domains, anchor text distribution, and competitor link gaps. Performance: keyword rankings, traffic trends, Search Console issues, and conversion attribution against business pipeline. Tools like Screaming Frog, Ahrefs, Semrush, and Google Search Console gather the data. The analyst reviews each finding, validates it, and prioritizes against impact. The deliverable isn't a 400-page PDF — it's a sharp, ordered list of what to fix, with expected impact attached.

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