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SEO Audit Services That End With a Shippable Backlog

An audit is only worth paying for if it changes what engineering does next week. Ours ends with tickets, not slides: every finding carries a reproduction step, an owner, an effort estimate and a reason to care.

Written and maintained by the SEO Studio technical team · last reviewed October 2026 · methodology and SOP documentation

What we actually look at

We start where crawlers and your sitemap disagree, then follow the evidence into templates rather than individual pages. Most large sites do not have thousands of problems; they have six template faults replicated thousands of times.

  • Crawl coverage versus index coverage versus analytics requests
  • Server log files to see what search engines really revisit
  • Canonical, pagination and faceted navigation rules
  • Core Web Vitals measured on real templates, not synthetic pages

What you receive

A prioritised backlog grouped by effort and expected lift, plus the raw crawl data so your own team can re-run it later. We stay for the first review round so nothing is lost in hand-off.

  • Findings with reproduction steps and affected URL patterns
  • Work sized in engineer-days, ranked by expected lift
  • A revisited crawl four weeks later to verify what shipped

Questions people ask about seo audit services

How long does an SEO audit take?
Two to three weeks for most sites. The first week is crawling and log analysis, the second is template-level diagnosis, and the third is writing the backlog and reviewing it with your engineers.
Do we need to hand over admin access?
Read-only Search Console, analytics and a crawler run against staging are enough for diagnosis. Server logs can be filtered and shared as a download rather than granting production access.
Is the audit included in the managed program?
Kickoff setup and standalone audits are separately scoped and priced. Ongoing diagnosis and fixes use the monthly technical-hour allowance. Standalone audits typically cost USD 800–2,500 and setup USD 1,000–3,000, confirmed in the proposal.

Agree the scope with our team

Managed SEO starts at USD 1,500 per month for one site and language, two content units and four technical hours. Start with a three-month engagement, prepaid monthly. Audits, setup and work beyond the agreed scope are quoted separately. Compare service scopes.