SEO audit cost depends on which of four audits you are buying
What published data says an SEO audit costs, the four products sold under that name, what a full audit should contain, and the cost that follows it: the fixes.
Rajdeepsinh Jadeja
SEO audit services that end in a prioritised plan, not a list
SEO audit services for mid-size and large companies that need to know why organic enquiries have stalled and what to fix first. You get a technical SEO audit built on your own Search Console data, with every finding ranked by what it is worth, who does the work and roughly how much of it, and each technical rule checked against Google’s own documentation.
- Starts from your own Search Console data and analytics
- Measurement checked before a single finding is ranked
- Every technical rule sourced to Google’s own documentation
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An SEO audit that ends as a list of warnings changes nothing
You have probably seen one: a score on the cover and page after page of warnings behind it. Missing descriptions, slow pages, duplicate titles, broken links. Every line may be true. None of it says which findings are costing you enquiries, so your developer asks where to start and nobody can answer.
The findings are rarely the problem. The missing order is. A finding is worth paying for only when it comes with what fixing it is likely to change, who has to do the work and roughly how much work that is. Without those, your developer cannot schedule the fix and your finance lead cannot approve it.
That is the test we build our audit to pass. We start from your own Search Console data and your analytics, check that an enquiry can be traced to the page that produced it, and only then rank what we find. The audit ends in a prioritised plan, with every technical rule sourced to Google’s documentation so your developers can check it for themselves. Hold ours to the seven checks further down this page, and hold everyone else’s to them too.
What it is worth
Each finding ranked by what fixing it is likely to change for enquiries, not by a tool’s severity label.Who does the work
Each fix given to the person who can make it: a developer, a writer or whoever owns the hosting.How much work
Each fix sized roughly, in terms your team can plan around, so the plan can go into a real schedule.
A technical SEO audit service that starts with your data, not a scan
Our B2B SEO audit services run in six parts, in this order. Measurement comes first, because nothing found later can be ranked by what it is worth until you can see which pages produce enquiries.
Measurement, before any finding
Can you see which pages produce enquiries? We check Search Console, your analytics and the source field on your enquiry form first, because every later finding is ranked against them.Crawling and indexing
A technical crawl of your site, read against Search Console. You see which pages Google has indexed, which it has left out and why, and whether the pages that matter are among them.Technical checks, sourced to Google
Canonical tags, sitemaps, redirects, page speed, structured data and JavaScript rendering. Each is checked against Google’s own documentation, so your developers can read the rule for themselves.The searches and the pages
The searches your buyers run, set against the pages meant to answer them. You see where two of your pages compete for one search and where no page exists to answer it at all.Site structure and links
How your service pages and articles link to each other, and who links to you from outside, so a search engine can tell which of your pages answers which of your buyers’ questions.The prioritised plan
Where the audit ends. Every finding is ranked by what it is worth, with who does the work and roughly how much of it, written so your developers and writers can start on it.
Not sure which SEO audit you need? Ask before you buy one
Thirty minutes with the people who would do the work. Tell us what the site is for and what has changed. We tell you straight which kind of audit fits, or that you do not need one yet.
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Automated scan, technical SEO audit, full audit or retainer: which one ends in a plan
The same two words cover four different purchases. What separates them is what you hold at the end, and whether your team can act on it.
| Kind of audit | What it covers | What you hold at the end | When it is enough |
|---|---|---|---|
| Automated scan | Whatever a crawler can see on each URL it reaches: tags, links, status codes and page speed | A score and a list of warnings, sorted by the tool’s own severity labels | A first look, or a check after a release. Google’s free Search Console is the place to start |
| Technical SEO audit | Crawling, indexing, redirects, canonical tags, templates, speed and structured data, read by a specialist | Technical findings, each with its fix. Often the work of one SEO audit consultant | Before a migration or a redesign, to know what to protect, and after one, to find what broke |
| Full SEO audit | The technical audit, plus measurement, the searches your buyers run, the pages that answer them, and links | Done properly, a prioritised plan: findings ranked by worth, each with an owner and the work involved | Enquiries have stalled on a site that has grown for years, and nobody inside can say why |
| Ongoing SEO retainer | The audit as the first month of continuing work, with a team attached to make the fixes | Findings and fixes together. Ask whether the audit exists as a document you keep | Nobody on your side can make the changes, and you want them made and measured every month |
The first ends in a list. The others end in a plan only when someone ranks the findings against your own enquiries. An enterprise SEO audit is the third kind, on a site where several teams own the pages. For what the market charges for each of the four, read our SEO audit cost guide.
What an SEO audit must end with: seven checks for any SEO audit company
An SEO audit is worth buying only if it ends in a plan your team can act on. These are the seven things that plan has to contain. Check any audit you are offered against them, ours included, before you agree to pay for it.
- A ranked order: every finding placed by what it is worth to your enquiries or revenue, with the reasoning shown so your team can challenge it.
- An estimate of improvement for each fix: what it is likely to change, given as a realistic range with what it depends on, never as a promised ranking.
- An estimate of the work for each fix: roughly how much effort it takes, in terms the person doing it can put into a schedule.
- An owner for each fix: the developer, the writer, the hosting owner or the SEO. A fix that belongs to nobody does not get made.
- Evidence from your own data: the Search Console report, the crawled URLs or the analytics behind each finding, so your team can reproduce it.
- A source for each technical rule: the page of Google’s documentation the recommendation rests on, so nobody has to take a tool’s word for it.
- The findings not worth fixing, named: what was checked, judged too small to matter and left out of the plan, so nobody spends a sprint on it.
The second and third checks are Google’s own. Its guidance on hiring an SEO says an audit “should be about giving you realistic estimates of improvement, and an estimate of the work involved”. The same page says to check a third-party tool’s recommendations against Google’s official guidance before making significant changes to your site, which is what the sixth check is for.
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Four findings that pad a technical SEO audit, and what Google says about each
A long report looks thorough. Some of that length can be findings Google itself tells site owners not to focus on, and its SEO Starter Guide keeps a list of them. A good audit still checks these four, then ranks them where they belong.
Pages that are not indexed
A raw count proves little. Google’s help for the Page indexing report says not to expect every URL to be indexed. The goal is the canonical version of every important page.Duplicate content “penalties”
The Starter Guide lists the duplicate content penalty among the things not to focus on. Content reachable under several URLs is inefficient, it says, but will not cause a manual action.A perfect Core Web Vitals score
Google’s page experience guide says good scores do not guarantee a place at the top of the results, and that chasing a perfect score just for SEO may not be the best use of your time.Meta keywords and heading order
Google Search does not use the keywords meta tag, the Starter Guide says, and from Search’s side headings used out of order do not matter. Neither belongs near the start of a plan.
None of the four is skipped. Each is checked, then ranked by whether it touches a page that earns enquiries, with Google’s own page named beside it.
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When you should not pay for an SEO audit
Four cases where the money does more elsewhere. If yours is one of them, we will say so on the first call.
The site was rebuilt with SEO in it
A site rebuilt in the last year, with an SEO involved from the start, has in effect just been audited. Read your Search Console for a few months before paying to hear it again.A redesign is about to start
A full audit of the old site will be out of date on launch day. Put the technical review inside the redesign project, where it decides what the new site must keep.Nobody can change the site
If the templates are locked, the developer has gone or every edit waits months in a queue, the findings will be stale before the first one is fixed. Solve that first.The site is small enough to check
For a site of a few pages, Google’s free Search Console shows which pages are indexed and which searches bring visitors. Start there before you pay anyone for an audit.
Where an audit does earn its fee is a site that has grown for years with nobody owning its structure, where organic enquiries have stalled or fallen and no one inside can say why.
Five stages, from the first crawl to a plan your team can schedule
Step 1 of 5
Discovery
We map your workflows, systems, and constraints with the people who use them every day, before anything is scoped. For an SEO audit: a technical crawl, a read of your Search Console and a check of what your enquiry form records, before a single finding is written up.
Discovery
- Workflow map
- Systems inventory
- Constraints and risks
Step 2 of 5
Scope and plan
You get a scope, a timeline, and a price that hold. Architecture decisions are made and documented before code starts. For an SEO audit: the scope names the kind of audit, the parts of the site it covers and what the result will be judged against.
Scope and plan
- Written scope
- Timeline and milestones
- A price that holds
- Architecture decisions
Step 3 of 5
Build in stages
Senior engineers deliver in planned stages, with working software demonstrated at every step, not a reveal at the end.
Build in stages
- Planned stages
- Working software every step
- Senior engineers on the code
Step 4 of 5
Launch
Data migration, training, and a production cutover planned around your operations and your calendar, not ours.
Launch
- Data migration
- Team training
- Production cutover
Step 5 of 5
Run and improve
The team that built your system stays on it: monitoring, support, and the next improvements on one roadmap. For an SEO audit: if you ask us to carry on into ongoing SEO, each fix is verified once it is live, and Search Console is read every month against the enquiries your form records.
Run and improve
- Monitoring
- Support
- Improvement roadmap
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What do SEO audit services include?
SEO audit services should include five reviews and a plan: your measurement, your site’s crawling and indexing, its technical setup, the searches your buyers run against the pages meant to answer them, and your links. The plan is the part that matters. It ranks each finding by what it is worth, with who does the work and roughly how much of it. An audit that stops at an automated list of warnings has left that part out, so ask to see how the document ends before you buy.
What is the difference between a technical SEO audit and a full SEO audit?
A technical SEO audit checks whether Google can crawl, render and index your site. A full SEO audit also checks whether the site has the right pages and whether you can measure what they produce.
A technical SEO audit service is the right purchase around a migration or a redesign. It will not tell you that the page your buyers are searching for does not exist. For a software company’s own site the technical checks are different, and our SaaS SEO page lists them.
How long does an SEO audit take?
An SEO audit takes as long as the size of the site and the kind of audit require, so we scope it before we give a date. What drives it is the number of page templates, whether your measurement is already in place, and how quickly read access arrives.
Ask any provider for the hours of work as well as the delivery date. A long window on the calendar can hold very little of a person’s time.
What access do you need for an SEO audit?
Read access to Google Search Console and your analytics is enough for an audit. Google’s guidance on hiring an SEO says to grant read access only at this stage, not write access.
In Search Console that is a restricted user, who has view rights on most data. The accounts stay in your name, and an owner on your side can remove the user whenever you choose. We also ask what your enquiry form records about where each enquiry came from.
What happens after the audit?
After the audit you hold a prioritised plan, and you decide who carries it out. Your own developers and writers can work through it, or another supplier can.
If you want us to make the fixes and measure the result every month, that is our B2B SEO services. Either way, expect technical fixes to show first and new pages to take longer. Google’s SEO Starter Guide says some changes take effect in a few hours and others could take several months.
Can an SEO audit tool or an AI assistant do the audit?
A tool or an AI assistant can do the first part of an audit, and neither can do the last. A crawler lists what is visible on every URL, and an assistant can sort that list or review a single page sensibly. Neither knows what you sell, which pages earn enquiries or who on your team can fix what, so neither can rank the findings.
Google says it does not evaluate or endorse third-party SEO tools and that they have no access to its internal ranking data. It tells site owners to check a tool’s recommendations against its official guidance first. If an “AI visibility audit” is offered as a separate product, our generative engine optimization page explains what AI assistants read.
What decides what you pay for an SEO audit service?
What you pay depends on which kind of audit it is, how large the site is and how much of a person’s time goes into it. An automated scan, a technical audit and a full audit are different amounts of work, and they are often quoted under one name. We do not publish prices; we scope the work first and price that.
For what the market charges, with sources, read our SEO audit cost guide. Ask every provider whether the fee is credited against later work or is separate from it.
How is an enterprise SEO audit different?
An enterprise SEO audit differs in who has to act on it more than in what is checked. On a large site several teams own the pages and every fix goes through a release, so a finding with no named owner never reaches one.
The plan matters more as the organisation grows: each fix needs a team, an estimate of the work and a place in a release. We work with mid-size and large organisations and fix technical SEO at the source in your site.
Bring the audit you already have to a 30 minute scoping call
Or bring the site and the question. You talk to the people who would do the work, never an account manager. We reply within 12 hours, sign an NDA before the first call, and tell you straight which kind of audit you need, or that you do not need one.
- We reply within 12 hours
- You talk to the people doing the work, never an account manager
- Peer-reviewed releases
- NDA before your first call
Mayursinh Jadeja
Founder, Redlio Labs