# SEO Audit Services: Every Fix Ranked by What It's Worth

> Searchmaxxed's AI SEO Audit checks Google and AI answers in five business days. It ranks every fix by what it's worth, most valuable first.

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Last updated: 2026-09-28

AI SEO AUDIT

An SEO audit that shows where you're losing buyers in Google and AI answers, and what each fix is worth to you. In five business days we rank every technical SEO, on-page SEO, local SEO, GEO and AEO fix, most valuable first.

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TLDR

## What is the AI SEO Audit?

Searchmaxxed's AI SEO Audit puts a value on every fix and ends in a plan that goes after revenue first. In five business days it covers technical SEO, on-page SEO, local SEO, GEO and AEO. We study competitors' sites, the Google results and what AI answers say about you. We credit the audit to the build or first month when you start within 14 days. If you go ahead, we build the plan for you: pages, technical fixes, links and reviews.

### Technical SEO and on-page SEO

With technical SEO and on-page SEO, we fix whatever stops Google and the AI engines reading your site, then build the comparison, industry and integration pages your buyers are already searching for. It all sits on a website you own, connected to Search Console and GA4, so you can see which pages bring in enquiries.

### AI SEO, GEO and AEO

Through AI SEO, GEO and AEO, we make your pages and the facts about your company the ones ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google's AI answers quote. We keep checking what those answers say about you, and fix whatever keeps your name out.

### Link building, reviews and citations

Through link building and digital PR, we earn the links, reviews, citations, press and mentions that back up your pages on other sites. Google ranks pages with that backing, and AI answers recommend companies that other sources agree on.

[PROOF Searchmaxxed's work has generated more than $15 million in revenue through search for its clients. SEE THE PROOF →](https://www.searchmaxxed.com/case-studies)

THE PROBLEM

## Why do so many SEO audits never change anything?

Most tool audits rank issues by how severe they are. Semrush's SEO Checker, for example, sets its priorities by severity. Severity tells you how broken something is, but it can't tell you what fixing it earns. So a broken tag on a page nobody visits can outrank a missing page your buyers search for every day. The list sits in a tab, your team debates where to start, and nothing on the site changes.

THE DISCIPLINES

## What should an SEO audit include?

A website SEO audit should cover four things. Those are your Google rankings, what AI tools say about you, your site's technical health and the sources outside your site. Ours covers all four and ties every fault to the searches it costs you.

### [Where buyers search without finding you](https://www.searchmaxxed.com/services/seo)

The searches that bring customers, and who wins them today.

We map the searches that end in a sale for your company, read the Google results and study the pages that win them. You see your rank, your competitors' ranks and where buyers pass you by. Every gap points to the work that would close it.

Money-search map Rank baseline Competitor pages Gap sizing

### [What ChatGPT and AI Overviews say about you](https://www.searchmaxxed.com/services/geo)

Who the answer engines name for your buyers' questions.

We put your buyers' questions to ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews, then note who they name and which sources they lean on. Google says a page must be indexed and snippet-eligible to appear as a link in AI Overviews or AI Mode. This map is where our AEO and GEO work starts.

AI answer baseline Named competitors Cited sources Snippet eligibility

### [What the site is doing to itself](https://www.searchmaxxed.com/services/technical-seo)

Faults that stop Google from reading or ranking your pages.

We crawl the site and read it page by page. We find crawl blocks, index faults, pages competing for one search and thin buying pages. Google names crawl access and internal links as basics for its AI features too. Each fault comes with the fix that clears it.

Crawl and index Competing pages Thin buying pages Schema review Internal links

### [What the rest of the web says about you](https://www.searchmaxxed.com/source-layer)

The profiles, reviews, links and mentions that back up your facts.

Google and the AI answers both lean on sources beyond your site. We audit your company profiles, reviews, citations, links and mentions, and check that your name, services and locations agree everywhere. The gaps become your off-page plan.

Entity facts Business profiles Reviews and citations Links and mentions

WHAT YOU GET

## What does Searchmaxxed's AI SEO Audit deliver?

We run the AI SEO Audit for companies in Australia and the US. In five business days you get one document in four parts, and we walk you through it live.

### A map of where buyers miss you

Every search that should bring you customers, with your Google rank and your place in AI answers beside it. You see which competitor takes each search and which kind of page wins it.

Money searches Your rank and AI mentions Competitor winners Winning page types

### A read on what the site does to itself

The technical, content and structure faults that hold your pages back, each tied to the searches it touches. A fault on a page with no demand drops down the list. A fault on a money page moves to the top.

Index and crawl faults Competing pages Missing buying pages Schema gaps

### Every fix ranked by what it's worth

Each finding becomes a job with a size. We rank the jobs the way our own team does, by closeness to revenue, strength of evidence, expected value, cost and risk. Quick wins get a flag.

Value of each fix Delivery cost Risk to the site Quick wins

### The plan, in order of value

The fixes become a plan, most valuable first. Each job names the page, the change and who does it. Your team can run it, or we can run it for you.

Order of value Page-level jobs An owner for each job

### A live walkthrough

We walk you through the document live. You hear what we'd go after first and why, and what we'd leave alone. Ask anything, and keep the plan either way.

Findings explained Questions answered What to leave alone

### A credit if you start within 14 days

We credit the AI SEO Audit to the build or your first month when you start within 14 days. Start later, and the plan is still yours to run.

14-day window Build or first month Plan stays yours

HOW IT WORKS

## How does the AI SEO Audit run?

Every person on our team works with AI agents, which is how we cover this much ground in five business days. We connect your Search Console and GA4 and read the Google results for your money searches. We also study competitor pages and what AI answers say about you. Then our people rank every fix by what it's worth. If you go ahead, we put the plan live on your site and win the outside sources it needs.

1. STEP 01
  ### A thirty-minute call
  You talk to the people who'd run the work, with no salesperson in between. If you share Search Console and your rankings, we open them live and tell you what we see. If search isn't your biggest problem right now, we'll say so.
2. STEP 02
  ### Connect the data and read the market
  We connect your Search Console and GA4, then read the Google results for your money searches and study the competitor pages that win them. We also check what ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and AI Overviews say about you.
3. STEP 03
  ### Diagnose and rank every fix
  We find the cause behind each pattern: a missing buying page, an access fault, a weak internal-link path or missing outside support. Then we rank every fix by what it's worth to you.
4. STEP 04
  ### Walk through the plan
  Within five business days, we walk you through the plan live. Run it yourself if you like. Start with us within 14 days and we credit the audit to the build or first month, then put the plan live for you.

PROOF

## Results for our clients.

PROOF

### More than $15 million

Searchmaxxed's work has generated more than $15 million in revenue through search for its clients.

[Read the case study →](https://www.searchmaxxed.com/case-studies)

CLIENT STORY

### Page one in three months

One client came to us with a website that wasn't working. Three months later he was on page one for one of the most competitive searches in his industry. Now he has more high-intent leads than he can handle, and we're building the systems to handle them.

PACKAGES

## What does an SEO audit cost with Searchmaxxed?

We quote the [AI SEO Audit](https://www.searchmaxxed.com/audit) after we look at your site, market and goals. A full website build or a migration sets you up on a site you own. Local Search adds at least 8 new local pages a month and daily [Google Business Profile](https://www.searchmaxxed.com/services/local-seo) work. The Growth System takes more of the buying searches in your market every month. Agentic Search Engineering goes after your whole category, with digital PR and AI answer tracking. Start with a free growth plan.

### What every package includes

Every plan includes all of this. We handle it end to end, from the strategy to the work itself.

- ✓ You always know where you stand. Your AI visibility, technical health, gaps and openings, checked all the time.
- ✓ Revenue comes first. A 90-day plan that puts the work worth the most at the top.
- ✓ Done for you. Pages, technical fixes, schema, internal links and authority, built and put live by us.
- ✓ Results you can take to the board. Rankings, AI answers, enquiries and revenue, measured against your competitors in a monthly decision memo.
- ✓ Straight to the people doing the work. No account managers, no handoffs.
- ✓ Numbers you can trust. Search Console and GA4 set up and checked, so every claim traces back to a number.
- ✓ It compounds. Your site keeps improving as the market shows us what your buyers want.
- ✓ You own everything. Site, repository, content and data are yours from day one. No lock-in beyond the term.

### What every package includes

Every plan includes all of this. We handle it end to end, from the strategy to the work itself.

- ✓ You always know where you stand. Your AI visibility, technical health, gaps and openings, checked all the time.
- ✓ Revenue comes first. A 90-day plan that puts the work worth the most at the top.
- ✓ Done for you. Pages, technical fixes, schema, internal links and authority, built and put live by us.
- ✓ Results you can take to the board. Rankings, AI answers, enquiries and revenue, measured against your competitors in a monthly decision memo.
- ✓ Straight to the people doing the work. No account managers, no handoffs.
- ✓ Numbers you can trust. Search Console and GA4 set up and checked, so every claim traces back to a number.
- ✓ It compounds. Your site keeps improving as the market shows us what your buyers want.
- ✓ You own everything. Site, repository, content and data are yours from day one. No lock-in beyond the term.

GROWTH SYSTEM

SEO, AI SEO and GEO for growing companies. We go after more of the buying searches in your market, on a fast, clean site that keeps the ground it wins.

We'll recommend the right scope and quote for your company.

Start with the Full Build or the Agentic Migration

The AI SEO Audit is credited in full when you start within 14 days.

What the Growth System adds

- ✓ New and rebuilt pages every month, each one aimed at a search your buyers make
- ✓ Your key landing pages tuned to turn more visits into enquiries
- ✓ A fast, clean site that Google and the AI engines can read, with schema and internal links kept tight
- ✓ Citations, profiles and reviews that back you up
- ✓ Every month, we go after a qualified link that backs you up
- ✓ Your name in the Reddit threads your buyers read
- ✓ See how often AI answers name you, in your monthly decision memo
- ✓ Every new page checked for its place in Google's index

[Get your free growth plan](https://www.searchmaxxed.com/contact)

MOST FIREPOWER

AGENTIC SEARCH ENGINEERING

SEO, AI SEO, GEO and AEO at full scale. We go after your whole category in Google and AI answers, with the digital PR and links to back it.

We'll recommend the right scope and quote for your company.

Everything in the Growth System, at full scale

Starts from a site built for search: the Full Build, the Agentic Migration, or a site that passes the audit.

Everything in Growth System, plus

- ✓ Our biggest monthly push of new and rebuilt pages, so you cover more of your market
- ✓ Comparison, industry and integration pages for buyers choosing between you and a competitor
- ✓ Site-wide content and technical health, checked continuously
- ✓ A press release written and distributed every month
- ✓ Continuous digital PR and qualified link campaigns
- ✓ Your name in more of the Reddit threads your buyers read
- ✓ See where ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and AI Overviews name you, and where they name a competitor
- ✓ A quarterly competitor review your executives can act on
- ✓ A quarterly proof piece built from your own wins, made to earn links

[Get your free growth plan](https://www.searchmaxxed.com/contact)

RELATED

## Services that complete the search system.

SERVICE

### [SEO](https://www.searchmaxxed.com/services/seo)

The rankings, pages and authority everything else builds on.

See service →

SERVICE

### [AEO](https://www.searchmaxxed.com/services/aeo)

Answers and facts about you that AI quotes word for word.

See service →

SERVICE

### [SEO Consulting](https://www.searchmaxxed.com/services/seo-consulting)

Senior search judgement inside your existing team.

See service →

COMPARISON

## How does the AI SEO Audit compare with a typical SEO audit?

Every row below is checkable. Ask any agency you are shortlisting the same nine questions and write down what they say.

WHO DOES THE WORK

SEARCHMAXXED The people you met on the call, with their AI agents behind them

TYPICAL SEO AUDIT An account manager relaying your questions to a junior

WHAT YOU GET

SEARCHMAXXED More of the buying searches and AI answers that bring you pipeline

TYPICAL SEO AUDIT A report, a check-in call and a few blog posts

SPEED

SEARCHMAXXED Problems caught and fixed fast, with your live data deciding the next move

TYPICAL SEO AUDIT A quarterly audit and a monthly summary

AI SEARCH

SEARCHMAXXED A fixed set of buyer questions tracked in ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and AI Overviews every month

TYPICAL SEO AUDIT Not covered, or sold to you later as an add-on

THE WEBSITE

SEARCHMAXXED Built and engineered for search from the first commit

TYPICAL SEO AUDIT Your existing site, worked around

WHERE CLAIMS ARE VERIFIED

SEARCHMAXXED Your own Search Console and GA4, and the live SERP itself

TYPICAL SEO AUDIT Screenshots from a dashboard you cannot open

WHAT MOVES ON YOUR DASHBOARD

SEARCHMAXXED Clicks, impressions, rankings, AI mentions and recommendations, all trending in one view

TYPICAL SEO AUDIT Vanity charts, and an explanation of why the real numbers are flat

WHEN RANKINGS SLIP

SEARCHMAXXED Diagnosed and fixed that week

TYPICAL SEO AUDIT Explained at next month's call

WHO OWNS THE ASSETS

SEARCHMAXXED You. Site, repository, content and data, from day one

TYPICAL SEO AUDIT The agency, on the agency's stack

COMMITMENT

SEARCHMAXXED Monthly, 6 months or 12 months, your choice

TYPICAL SEO AUDIT A 12-month lock, then a renewal negotiation

Searchmaxxed

An AI-native search team: the answer in Google and AI, and the pipeline that follows.

Typical SEO audit

Retainers priced for people, not for results.

WHO DOES THE WORK

The people you met on the call, with their AI agents behind them

An account manager relaying your questions to a junior

WHAT YOU GET

More of the buying searches and AI answers that bring you pipeline

A report, a check-in call and a few blog posts

SPEED

Problems caught and fixed fast, with your live data deciding the next move

A quarterly audit and a monthly summary

AI SEARCH

A fixed set of buyer questions tracked in ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and AI Overviews every month

Not covered, or sold to you later as an add-on

THE WEBSITE

Built and engineered for search from the first commit

Your existing site, worked around

WHERE CLAIMS ARE VERIFIED

Your own Search Console and GA4, and the live SERP itself

Screenshots from a dashboard you cannot open

WHAT MOVES ON YOUR DASHBOARD

Clicks, impressions, rankings, AI mentions and recommendations, all trending in one view

Vanity charts, and an explanation of why the real numbers are flat

WHEN RANKINGS SLIP

Diagnosed and fixed that week

Explained at next month's call

WHO OWNS THE ASSETS

You. Site, repository, content and data, from day one

The agency, on the agency's stack

COMMITMENT

Monthly, 6 months or 12 months, your choice

A 12-month lock, then a renewal negotiation

FIT

## Who we take on.

GOOD FIT

### Serious buyers, serious category

- ✓ You sell to buyers who research in Google and AI answers before they talk to sales
- ✓ You want one team owning search end to end, judged on pipeline
- ✓ You can give us access to your site, and a quick answer when we need one
- ✓ You think in years, and want an asset that compounds instead of an expense that repeats

POOR FIT

### Looking for a shortcut

- ✕ You need rankings by Friday. Nobody honest promises those
- ✕ You want strategy advice with no changes to your site
- ✕ You want to direct the deliverables list line by line each month
- ✕ You want reports about the work more than you want the work

FAQ

## SEO audit questions

### How does Searchmaxxed do SEO and AI SEO? + −

We start from your data and build on a website you own. Every person on our team works with AI agents, so we can go deep on your Search Console, GA4 and competitors' sites. We also read the Google results and what AI answers say about you. That shows what to build next: technical fixes, new pages, schema and internal links. Off the site we earn links, reviews, citations, press and mentions. You see every change and what it moved.

### Can ChatGPT do an SEO audit? + −

Partly. An AI model can check pages and spot faults, and every person on our team works with AI agents for that part. Our audit starts from your own Search Console and GA4 data, the live Google results and what AI answers say about you. Then our people rank the fixes and walk you through the plan.

### How much does an SEO audit cost? + −

A basic tool scan can cost nothing: Semrush's SEO Checker and SEOptimer both offer a free check. We quote the AI SEO Audit after we look at your site, market and goals. We credit it to the build or first month when you start within 14 days, and our pricing page shows what each package includes. Start with a free growth plan.

### What is the difference between a GEO audit and an SEO audit? + −

An SEO audit checks how your pages rank in Google, while a GEO audit checks whether AI answers name and cite you. The two overlap. Google says AI Overviews and AI Mode add no technical requirements beyond being indexed and eligible for a snippet. Even so, a page can rank first and still miss the answer above it. Our AI SEO Audit checks both.

### How often should an SEO audit be performed? + −

For most sites, once a month. AIOSEO advises a monthly audit for most sites and more frequent audits for large or fast-growing ones. Google also suggests auditing any traffic drop to see which pages and searches it hit. In our managed packages, audits and diagnostics run all the time, so we choose what to build next from fresh evidence.

### How long does an SEO audit take? + −

Searchmaxxed's AI SEO Audit takes five business days. It starts with a thirty-minute call and ends with a live walkthrough of the plan. In between, we run the checks and rank every fix by what it's worth.

### Can I do an SEO audit myself? + −

Yes. Free checkers such as Semrush's find technical and on-page faults, and Google publishes a self-assessment list for content quality. Our own free tools need no account, trial or credit card. What a self-audit tends to skip is the value of each fix. So rank every fault by the searches it costs you before you fix anything.

### What access do you need for the audit? + −

Read access to Search Console and GA4, so we work from your real search data. On the first call, we open Search Console and your rankings live if you're happy to share them.

### Can our team run the plan without you? + −

Yes. You can run SEO and AI work in-house without a retainer, and the plan lists each job in order of value. If you'd rather we run it, we build the pages and fixes on your website. Our retainer pays the team to do the agreed work for you. You own the site, repository, content and data from day one.

### Who does the work after the audit? + −

The people you meet on the call, with no account managers in between. Brenden House sets the direction on every account and reads your results. Every person on the team works with AI agents for research and analysis. Searchmaxxed's work has generated more than $15 million in revenue through search for its clients.

### Who is the AI SEO Audit not for? + −

It's a poor fit for three kinds of buyer. If search alone has to fill this month's pipeline, pair it with paid search while search builds. If you want advice with no changes to your site, you'll get less from it. The results come from changing the site. And if you're shopping for the cheapest retainer, we're the wrong call.

SOURCES

- Google Search Central, [AI features and your website](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/ai-features)
- Google Search Central, [Creating helpful, reliable, people-first content](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/creating-helpful-content)
- Semrush, [SEO Checker](https://www.semrush.com/siteaudit/)
- SEOptimer, [SEO Audit & AI Visibility Tool](https://www.seoptimer.com/)
- All in One SEO, [SEO Analyzer](https://aioseo.com/seo-analyzer/)

Written and reviewed by Brenden House at Searchmaxxed. Last reviewed 28 September 2026.

## Find out what every fix is worth

[Get your free growth plan](https://www.searchmaxxed.com/contact) [CASE STUDIES](https://www.searchmaxxed.com/case-studies)

Find out where buyers find you, which competitors appear in AI answers, and what to prioritise over 90 days. We explain your written plan on a 30-minute call; it is yours to keep.

## Related

- [Services](https://www.searchmaxxed.com/services)
- [Searchmaxxed](https://www.searchmaxxed.com/)
