Our SEO audit service checks how Google and the AI engines actually read your site, then tells you what to fix first. One analyst fetches your pages as Googlebot, GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot, checks crawl, index, schema, llms.txt and page structure, runs 40 buyer prompts across five engines, and delivers a 10 to 12 page report with a ranked fix list within 24 hours. $399 per domain, credited against your first month if you hire us to fix it.
All four numbers come from our AI Readiness Report, built from 2,012 website scans and updated monthly. They are the reason an SEO audit that only looks at Google now misses a third of the problem.
Written by Ran Yosef, Founder and CEO of Arobis AI, who runs the audit on every client site himself.
SEO audit services examine how search engines crawl, index, understand and rank a website, and return a ranked list of fixes. Ours covers six layers: crawl and index health, page clarity, structured data and entity, AI crawler access, authority and citation sources, and the conversion path. Every layer ends in a finding, a severity and an owner.
We read robots.txt line by line, test every XML sitemap, and check canonicals, noindex tags, redirect chains, 404s and crawl depth. Then we fetch your key pages as Googlebot and compare what it gets with what a browser gets. A page that renders for people and not for bots is the single most common finding we write up.
Titles, H1s, heading order, duplicate pages, thin pages and two pages fighting for one search term. We check whether each important page answers its question in the first two sentences, because that is the passage Google and the AI engines lift. Internal links get their own map: which money pages have few links pointing in, and which posts link nowhere.
Every JSON-LD block is parsed and validated, not eyeballed. We check that Organization, Service, Product, FAQ and Breadcrumb markup exist where they should, that they agree with the visible text, and that your company is described the same way on your site, LinkedIn, Crunchbase and the directories AI engines read. Conflicting founding dates or taglines cost citations.
We fetch your pages as GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot and record what each one receives. Many sites allow them in robots.txt and still return a blank shell because of bot protection or client-side rendering. We also check for an llms.txt file, what it points to, and whether your most-cited pages are in it.
Backlinks still matter, so we review referring domains, anchor text and toxic patterns. The newer part is the source map: the third-party pages that Google's AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity cite when they answer questions in your category, and whether you appear on any of them. That list becomes your placement plan.
An audit that lifts traffic to a page nobody converts on is wasted work. We walk the path a buyer takes from a search result or an AI answer to your form: pricing clarity, proof on the page, form friction, and whether the page says who it is for. Findings here are short, and they usually ship in a day.
A technical SEO audit service checks the parts of a site that decide whether a search engine can fetch, render, index and rank a page. The classic list has not changed much in a decade. What changed is who is reading: four AI crawlers now fetch your pages too, and they fail in ways Googlebot does not.
We report these against Google Search Console and a full crawl of the site, so every claim has a URL next to it.
The crawler part comes from the same engine as our free checker. The prompt part is run by hand. Our guide to what AI crawlers actually read explains why both are needed.
Buyers now read the answer instead of the results. Pew Research found Google users clicked a regular result on 8% of visits when an AI summary appeared, against 15% without one. If your site cannot be read and quoted by the engines writing those summaries, a perfect Google audit still leaves you invisible.
Most agency audits take three to five weeks because they are scoped by the hour. Ours is scoped by the finding: a fixed set of checks, run the same way every time, by the person who will also do the fixes if you ask. That is how one domain ships in 24 hours.
You send the domain, up to three competitors and the buyer questions you care about. No site access or tracking install is needed for the audit itself; we work from the outside, the way a search engine does.
A full crawl of the site, then live fetches of your key pages as Googlebot, GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot. Every JSON-LD block is parsed. Sitemaps, canonicals, redirects and llms.txt are tested, not assumed.
40 buyer prompts across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews, in logged-out or temporary sessions with repeat sampling. We log who gets named instead of you and which sources each engine cited. The rules are published in how we measure AI visibility.
A 10 to 12 page report and a 30-minute walkthrough call. Each finding carries a severity, the pages it affects, the fix, who should do it and roughly how long it takes. The order is impact divided by effort, so the first week of work is obvious.
If you hire us on the Foundation plan, the $399 is credited in full against your first month and the fix list becomes the first sprint: schema, crawler access, llms.txt, structure, internal links and the page rewrites. First new citations usually land within 30 to 60 days; recommendation changes on core buyer prompts within 60 to 90.
Seven things, every time. If a finding does not come with a fix and an owner, it does not go in the report.
Every issue with a severity tier, the URLs it affects, the fix, the owner and the effort. Sorted so the first week of work is clear.
impact ÷ effort, critical firstWhat Googlebot, GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot each received from your key pages, side by side.
page × crawler × responsePages indexed, excluded and duplicated, with the canonical Google chose against the one you set.
GSC coverage + crawlEach JSON-LD block validated, missing types listed, and every place your company is described differently.
parsed, not eyeballed40 prompts across five engines: where you were named, in what position, and who was named instead.
clean sessions, repeat runsThe third-party pages the engines cited for your category, ranked by how often. Your placement plan.
citations per domain30 minutes with the analyst who ran it. Bring your developer; most questions are theirs.
within 24 hours of deliveryAll three have a place. A free checker is the right first step. A full agency audit is right when the site is large and the budget is five figures. Ours sits in between on price and ahead on the AI layer.
| Compare | Free SEO checker | Typical agency SEO audit | Arobis AI audit |
|---|---|---|---|
What it checks | Surface technical signals on one URL | Crawl, on-page, content and backlinks for Google | All of that, plus live AI crawler fetches, llms.txt, entity consistency and 40 buyer prompts on five engines |
Who does the work | Software | Analyst team, often on a scanner's output | One analyst, the same person who ships the fixes if you continue |
Turnaround | Seconds | Three to five weeks is common; OuterBox publishes 3 to 5 weeks | Within 24 hours of payment |
Price | Free | $1,000 to $5,000; Percepture starts at $2,500; consultants $5,000 to $15,000 | $399 per domain, credited against your first month |
Output | A score and a generic list | A long document, sometimes a roadmap | 10 to 12 pages, ranked fix list with owners, 30-minute walkthrough |
Best for | A first look before you spend anything | Enterprise sites with thousands of templates | B2B SaaS and considered-purchase sites that need to be read by Google and the AI engines |
Agency figures are published ranges across the category and the two named vendors' own pages, read in October 2026. Start with the free check: our AI visibility checker scores your site's readiness to be read and cited in about 25 seconds, no signup.
$399 per domain, one time, delivered within 24 hours. If you then hire us to implement, the $399 is credited in full against your first month on any plan, as long as you start within 60 days. Three or more domains are $299 each. There is also a free Basic audit: a 2 to 3 page report on the core engines, within 24 hours, for teams that want a taste first.
Full plan details are on the pricing page. For what the market charges for AI-era audits and retainers, see our guide to how much AEO costs.
Both, and you get both in the same $399 report. They answer different questions, so we describe them on two pages.
Findings here are fixes to your site. Most ship in days, and the internal linking case study shows what one of them did on its own.
Findings here are mostly about sources outside your site. The method and scope are on the AI visibility audit page.
We do our best work on sites where buyers compare vendors before they talk to sales. If that is not you, we will say so before you pay.
Our free AI visibility checker runs the crawler half of this audit on your homepage: crawl access, schema, structure, entity signals and llms.txt, scored 0 to 100 with readiness estimates for ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity. No signup.
If the score is already above 70 and you are still missing from AI answers, the problem is in the prompt and source layer, and the full audit is where to look next. If you have no llms.txt at all, the free llms.txt generator writes one from your URL.
SEO audit services are a paid review of how search engines crawl, index, understand and rank a website, delivered as a ranked list of fixes. A good one covers technical health, on-page clarity, structured data, authority and conversion. Ours adds the AI search layer: live fetches as GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot, llms.txt, entity consistency and 40 buyer prompts across five AI engines.
Published prices run from about $249 for a self-serve report to $1,000 to $5,000 for a comprehensive agency audit and $5,000 to $15,000 for an independent consultant on enterprise scope. Percepture's technical audit starts at $2,500. Ours is $399 per domain, $299 each for three or more, and it is credited in full against your first month if you start a retainer within 60 days.
Agency audits commonly take three to five weeks; OuterBox publishes 3 to 5 weeks for theirs. Ours is delivered within 24 hours of payment because the checks are fixed, the crawler layer is automated and one analyst runs the prompt layer by hand. Payment is by PayPal invoice, and the walkthrough call is booked for the day the report lands.
Crawlability (robots.txt, crawl traps, orphan pages), indexing (canonicals, noindex, duplicates, sitemaps), rendering (what the bot receives versus what a browser shows), Core Web Vitals from field data, mobile parity and site architecture. Our technical SEO audit service adds the same checks for four AI crawlers, plus llms.txt and schema validation page by page.
Partly. ChatGPT can read a page you paste and list on-page issues, and it is useful for that. It cannot fetch your site as Googlebot, test your sitemaps and redirects, parse every JSON-LD block, read Search Console, or run 40 buyer prompts in clean sessions and log who was named instead of you. It also cannot tell you what it received when its own crawler fetched your pages, which is the finding that matters most.
An SEO audit asks whether Google and the AI engines can read, index and trust your site, and returns fixes to your pages. An AI visibility audit asks whether those engines recommend you when buyers ask, and returns a map of who gets named and which sources they cite. Our $399 report contains both; this page describes the SEO layer and the AI visibility audit page describes the prompt layer.
Yes, if you want us to. On the Foundation plan ($2,500 a month, 3-month minimum) the audit is credited against your first month and the fix list becomes the first sprint. You approve every change before it ships. If you only want the audit, your own team or developer can work from the fix list; every item names the page, the change and the effort.
Not for the audit. We work from the outside, the way a search engine does: a crawl, live fetches as each crawler, public schema and the engines' own answers. If you can share Google Search Console read access, the index and canonical report gets sharper, but the audit does not wait for it.
Once properly, then after any platform change, redesign, migration or bot-protection change, and at least once a year. The AI layer moves faster: crawler behavior and the sources engines cite shift within months, which is why our retainers re-run the prompt set at day 90 and track it weekly on the Growth plan.
Our own crawler and AI readiness engine, the one behind the free checker and the 2,012-scan report; Google Search Console when you share it; Ahrefs for referring domains and anchors; GA4 when available for the conversion path; and manual, clean-session runs on ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. No finding is reported from a tool's export without a person checking the URL.
One domain, six layers, 40 buyer prompts, a ranked fix list within 24 hours. $399, credited if you continue.
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