Is the audit a one-off, or does it turn into a retainer?

The audit is a one-off — scoped, delivered and closed, with the fixes quoted separately. Whether anything follows it depends on your site. A brochure site that gets its faults fixed is done, and we will say so. A publisher shipping articles every week has ongoing work by definition, and that runs as a retainer. What you will not get is a monthly fee attached to work that finished months ago.

Do you do the fixes, or just hand over a list?

Either, and the choice is yours. Most audits go nowhere because the list arrived with nobody to act on it, so doing the fixes is where the value sits and it is usually what we do. The findings are yours either way, and they hand over cleanly if your own developer would rather act on them.

How long before rankings move?

Longer than anyone selling you SEO will admit. Technical corrections can be picked up in days; anything resting on content or authority is months. What you will get is which of your findings is which, so you know what you are waiting for.

Do you guarantee first-page rankings?

No, and be wary of anyone who does — nobody has control over Google's index. What can be committed to is that the technical faults holding the site back get found, ordered and fixed.

Will you tell us if we do not need this?

Yes. If the technical side is sound and the problem is that the site has nothing worth ranking, that is the finding, and it is one you will actually be given.

We already have an SEO agency. Can you audit their work?

Yes, and you will get a straight read — including the parts they are doing well. An audit that only ever finds fault is a sales document rather than an audit.

SEO Audits & Fixes

An SEO audit, then the fixes done — not just listed

Findings in priority order, then the work done. A one-off that closes, or a retainer where the work genuinely continues.

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Fit

Who this is for.

Your rankings slipped and nobody can tell you what actually changed.
You have a report full of issues and nobody to act on any of them.
You are paying an SEO retainer and cannot point at what it bought.

Scope

What arrives.

Research and planning

Keyword research
Article ideas and a content plan
Content audit and pruning

Structure

Site restructuring
Internal links repaired
Sitemaps, including a news sitemap

Technical

Structured data added and fixed
Pagespeed and Core Web Vitals
Image optimisation and alt text

On the page, and off it

Titles and meta descriptions
Long-form pages and FAQs you already have, optimised
Directory and business listings

What you keep

The findings, scored and ordered
A before and after on everything changed
What we deliberately did not do, and why

Working together

How it runs.

Access first
Search Console, Analytics and the site itself. An audit without them is guesswork with a template, so where they are missing we quote setting them up as its own small piece of work before the audit begins.
Crawl, then read
The crawl finds what is broken. Reading the pages finds what is weak. The second half is the one most audits skip, and it is usually where the ranking actually went.
Ordered by what it is worth
Every finding scored by impact against effort, so what you get is a plan in sequence rather than an inventory of everything wrong.
Fixed, then it closes
We work down the list, show you what changed, and close the engagement. Where the work genuinely continues — a publisher shipping articles weekly, a store whose catalogue keeps moving — it carries on as a retainer instead. What is never on offer is a monthly fee attached to work that is already finished.

What we need from you

Access to Search Console, Analytics, and the CMS or repository
A straight answer on which pages actually make money, so the order reflects your business rather than our crawler
Someone who can approve a change to the live site

Proof

What six months of it did.

An audit that ends in a spreadsheet has cost you money and changed nothing. What follows a finding is the fix, and what follows enough fixes is a search presence that was not there before — which is the only part of this anybody should be paying for.

Google Search ConsoleAn Indian news publisher

Six months

Month 0Month 6

Keyword research, and the articles to match
Site restructured, internal links repaired
Schema fixed, news sitemap added
Pagespeed, images, meta titles
Long-form given contents and FAQs
Thin pages pruned

Impressions
126,441per month
from 1,720 per month
Clicks
2,180per month
from 33 per month

Cost

What it depends on.

How many pages: A forty-page site and a four-thousand-page store are different crawls, and very different fix lists.
Whether we do the fixes: An audit you implement yourself costs less than an audit we implement. Both are on offer.
What the site is built on: A fix in WordPress is often a setting. The same fix in a bespoke stack is a code change and a deploy.
How much is already in place: If Search Console has never been connected, that is a separate piece of work quoted before the audit can begin at all.

Every project is quoted against its own scope. The audit and the fixes are quoted separately, so you can take one without the other. Tell us what you are trying to do and you will get a number, not a range that moves later. Start that conversation.

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Questions

The ones people actually ask.

Is the audit a one-off, or does it turn into a retainer?
The audit is a one-off — scoped, delivered and closed, with the fixes quoted separately. Whether anything follows it depends on your site. A brochure site that gets its faults fixed is done, and we will say so. A publisher shipping articles every week has ongoing work by definition, and that runs as a retainer. What you will not get is a monthly fee attached to work that finished months ago.
Do you do the fixes, or just hand over a list?
Either, and the choice is yours. Most audits go nowhere because the list arrived with nobody to act on it, so doing the fixes is where the value sits and it is usually what we do. The findings are yours either way, and they hand over cleanly if your own developer would rather act on them.
How long before rankings move?
Longer than anyone selling you SEO will admit. Technical corrections can be picked up in days; anything resting on content or authority is months. What you will get is which of your findings is which, so you know what you are waiting for.
Do you guarantee first-page rankings?
No, and be wary of anyone who does — nobody has control over Google's index. What can be committed to is that the technical faults holding the site back get found, ordered and fixed.
Will you tell us if we do not need this?
Yes. If the technical side is sound and the problem is that the site has nothing worth ranking, that is the finding, and it is one you will actually be given.
We already have an SEO agency. Can you audit their work?
Yes, and you will get a straight read — including the parts they are doing well. An audit that only ever finds fault is a sales document rather than an audit.

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That is enough for us to tell you whether an audit is worth buying at all — and if the technical side is sound and the real problem is that there is nothing worth ranking, you will get that answer instead.

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