How to use SEO Audit Software

Getting started

Create your account, start the 14-day free trial and find your way around the app.

• Create your account and start the free trial
  Sign up at app.seoaudit.software with your email or Google account. The 14-day free trial needs no card Follow step-by-step instructions in this official guide.
• Sign in with Google
  Use your Google account to sign up or sign in to SEO Audit Software, without a separate password Follow step-by-step instructions in this official help guide.
• How the 14-day free trial works
  What you can use during the 14-day free trial, the trial limits, and what happens when the trial ends Follow step-by-step instructions in this official guide.
• First-time setup: your first client and audit
  The four setup steps after sign-up: about you, first client, first audit and the setup checklist Follow step-by-step instructions in this official help guide.
• A tour of the app: sidebar, top bar and Overview
  Where everything is in SEO Audit Software: the sidebar sections, the New audit button. Follow step-by-step instructions in our official help center guide.
• Verify your email and reset your password
  Confirm your email address, get a new confirmation link, or reset a forgotten password Follow our step-by-step instructions and best practices in this guide.

SEO audits and white label

Run audits, read the score, send reports and put your own brand on them.

• Run an SEO audit
  Start a Keyword Score, Web Page Audit, advanced (Lighthouse), GEO or Local SEO audit from the New. Follow step-by-step instructions in our official guide.
• Read your audit score and report
  What the 0 to 100 audit score means, the Good, Needs work and Poor bands, and how to use the issues list Learn step-by-step instructions in this official guide.
• Download, share or email an audit report
  Get a white label PDF of an audit, print it, copy a share link, or email the report to your client Follow step-by-step instructions in this official help guide.
• Choose which sections appear in PDF reports
  Turn audit report sections on or off for your PDF and emailed reports in White label, Reports Follow our step-by-step instructions in this official help guide.
• Set up white label branding
  Add your company name, logo, brand colour and contact details to every report, email and audit widget Follow step-by-step instructions in this official guide.
• Send reports from your own email address (SMTP)
  Choose whether report emails come from our servers with your name, or from your own SMTP server and domain Follow step-by-step instructions in this help guide.

Clients

Add each client website once. Its audits, keywords, leads and reports are grouped under it.

• Add a client
  Add a client website so its audits, keywords, leads and reports are grouped in one place. Follow our step-by-step instructions and best practices in this guide.
• Edit or delete a client
  Change a client's name, website, contact email, report schedule, brand colour and business. Follow step-by-step instructions in our official help center guide.

Keyword tracking and map scans

Track Google positions by location and device, and scan local rankings on a map grid.

• Start tracking keywords: create a keyword project
  Set up a keyword project in four steps: site, devices and locations, keywords and competitors Follow our step-by-step instructions in this official help guide.
• Add keywords, use groups and stop tracking
  Add more keywords to a project, sort them into groups, and stop tracking keywords you no longer need Follow step-by-step instructions in this official guide.
• Locations and devices: how tracked keywords are counted
  Each keyword is counted once per location and once per device. Desktop and mobile count as two tracked keywords Follow step-by-step instructions in this guide.
• Daily updates and extra keyword pricing
  Add extra keywords and choose weekly or daily updates for them. Follow step-by-step instructions and troubleshooting tips in this official help center guide.
• Why there is no position yet
  What Checking, Pending first check and Not in top 50 mean in keyword tracking, and when positions appear Learn step-by-step instructions in this official guide.
• Run a map scan (local rankings on a 5 × 5 grid)
  See how a business ranks on Google Maps at 25 points around its location, with map scan limits by plan Follow step-by-step instructions in this official guide.

Google data and client reports

Connect Search Console, Google Analytics 4 and Business Profile, then email white label reports on a schedule.

• Connect Search Console, Google Analytics or Business Profile
  Connect each client's Google Search Console, GA4 property or Business Profile location with Google sign-in Follow step-by-step instructions in this help guide.
• Schedule and send client reports
  Email each client a white label PDF report every week, month or quarter, or send one now Follow our step-by-step instructions and best practices in this guide.
• The AI summary in client reports
  How the AI summary in client reports is written, and how to check and edit it before the report is sent Follow step-by-step instructions in this official guide.
• One-click report templates (Website Performance Report)
  Build a 15-page, white-label Website Performance Report from a client's Google Analytics 4 in one. Follow step-by-step instructions in our official guide.

Site crawl, backlinks, research and AI visibility

Crawl whole sites, watch key pages, monitor backlinks, research keywords and check AI answers.

• Crawl a whole website
  Crawl a client website to find broken pages, redirects and on-page issues. Learn step-by-step instructions and troubleshooting tips in our official help guide.
• Get an alert when a page changes
  Monitor key pages and get an email when their title, meta description, H1, body text or status code changes Follow step-by-step instructions in this help guide.
• Monitor backlinks and look up any domain
  Monitor the top 1,000 backlinks of client websites each month, and look up the backlinks of any. Follow step-by-step instructions in our official guide.
• Research keywords
  Find search volume, difficulty, CPC, trends and related ideas for a keyword or page. Follow step-by-step instructions and best practices in this official guide.
• Check AI visibility in ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity
  See whether ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity name your client when people ask about their services. Follow step-by-step instructions in our official guide.

Audit widgets and leads

Put a free-audit form on a website, collect leads, export them or send them to your email tool.

• Create an audit widget and add it to a website
  Build a free-audit lead form in four steps, then paste the embed code on WordPress, Shopify. Follow step-by-step instructions in our official help center guide.
• View leads and export them as CSV
  See every lead from audit widgets, the AI chatbot and contact forms, mark them contacted, and. Follow step-by-step instructions in our official guide.
• Send leads to your email tool (lead sync)
  Send new leads to Brevo, Mailchimp, Constant Contact, Zapier or a webhook: how to connect each. Follow step-by-step instructions in our official guide.
• Create a contact form and put it on any website
  Build a white-label contact form, paste one line of code on WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Webflow. Follow step-by-step instructions in our official guide.

Team and account

Invite your team, switch between accounts, export your data or delete your account.

• Invite team members, roles and seats
  Invite your team, choose Admin or Member roles, and add extra seats in Billing & plan Learn step-by-step instructions and best practices in this official guide.
• Switch between accounts
  If you belong to more than one SEO Audit Software account, switch between them from the Account. Follow step-by-step instructions in our official guide.
• Export all your data
  Download your clients, audits, leads, keywords, widgets and chat transcripts as CSV and JSON in one ZIP file Learn step-by-step instructions in this help guide.
• Delete your account and GDPR requests
  Permanently delete your workspace and its data, and how to make other GDPR or privacy requests Follow our step-by-step instructions in this official help guide.

Plans and billing

Plans, prices, add-ons, payment, invoices, cancelling and older plans.

• Plans, prices and what each plan includes
  Starter, Essential, Growth, Scale and Enterprise: who each plan is for, what every plan includes. Follow step-by-step instructions in our official guide.
• Change your plan and add-ons
  Upgrade or downgrade, switch billing cycle, and add extra audits, keywords, client reports. Follow step-by-step instructions in our official help center guide.
• Payment methods (PayPal or PayPro Global) and invoices
  Pay with PayPal, or by card or PayPal through PayPro Global. Find your invoices and set your billing details Learn step-by-step instructions in this help guide.
• Cancel or resume your plan
  Cancel your plan in Billing & plan. You keep it until the end of the paid period, and your data is. Follow step-by-step instructions in our official guide.
• Previous plans
  If you are on an older or previous plan, you keep it at your current price. Follow step-by-step instructions and troubleshooting tips in this official help center guide.

Fix guides

Step-by-step technical fixes for blocked crawls, crawl issues and failed audit checks, with copy-paste snippets.

• Fix: Site can't be crawled (server errors, blocks and timeouts)
  Why a crawl or audit gets no page, a 403, 429 or 5xx, or stops after one page, what to allowlist. Follow step-by-step instructions in our official guide.
• Fix: Cloudflare blocks the crawl or audit (403, 'Just a moment', 429)
  Let SEO Audit Software through Cloudflare: a WAF skip rule for our IP and User-Agent, Bot Fight. Follow step-by-step instructions in our official guide.
• Fix: WordPress security plugins block the crawl (Wordfence, Solid Security, Sucuri, LiteSpeed)
  Allowlist SEO Audit Software in Wordfence, Solid Security, Sucuri, All-In-One Security, QUIC.cloud. Follow step-by-step instructions in our official guide.
• Fix: 403 and 429 from the server, host firewall or ModSecurity (nginx, Apache, cPanel, Plesk, hPanel)
  Allow SEO Audit Software through nginx and Apache rules, ModSecurity, CSF, fail2ban and rate. Follow clear instructions in our official help center guide.
• Fix: Server errors (5xx) — 500, 502, 503, 504
  Fix the Server errors (5xx) crawl issue: PHP fatal errors, memory limits, PHP-FPM crashes. Follow step-by-step instructions in our official help center guide.
• Fix: No response — timeouts, DNS, SSL/TLS and connection errors
  Pages show No response when our server gets no HTTP answer. Follow step-by-step instructions and troubleshooting tips in this official help center guide.
• Fix: Crawl finds few pages — redirects, robots.txt, login walls and JavaScript links
  Why a site crawl stops after one page or finds too few: redirects to another host, redirect loops. Follow step-by-step instructions in our official guide.
• Fix: Crawling Shopify, Wix, Squarespace and Webflow sites
  What blocks crawls on hosted platforms and what you can change: password pages, rate limits. Follow step-by-step instructions in our official help center guide.
• Fix: Broken internal links (4xx) and broken resources
  Find every internal link that returns 404 or another 4xx, fix it with an updated link or a 301. Follow step-by-step instructions in our official guide.
• Fix: title tags and meta descriptions
  Fix missing, duplicate and too-long titles and missing or badly sized meta descriptions, with. Follow step-by-step instructions in our official guide.
• Fix: H1 and heading issues
  Fix Missing H1, Multiple H1 tags, One H1 heading and Keyword in H1, and build a clean H1–H2–H3. Follow step-by-step instructions in our official guide.
• Fix: images — broken images, alt text and file size
  Fix Broken images, Images without alt text, Image alt text and Image file size: re-upload missing. Follow step-by-step instructions in our official guide.
• Fix: HTTPS, SSL and redirects (redirect chains, mixed content)
  Fix Redirect chains, URL redirect, Meta refresh, mixed content and SSL problems: one clean 301 to. Follow step-by-step instructions in our official guide.
• Fix: content — word count, keyword placement and readability
  Fix Low word count, Word count, Keyword density, Readability and keyword-in-URL checks: what to. Follow step-by-step instructions in our official guide.
• Fix: orphan pages and internal links
  Fix Orphan pages, the Internal links check, repeated links, nofollow on internal links and links. Follow step-by-step instructions in our official guide.
• Fix: URLs with parameters and URL structure
  Fix URLs with parameters (?sort=, ?utm_, filters) with canonical tags, clean internal links and. Follow step-by-step instructions in our official guide.
• Fix: Missing hreflang and language versions
  Link language and country versions with hreflang: return links, self-reference, x-default and. Follow step-by-step instructions in our official guide.
• Fix: indexing — noindex, canonical tag, robots.txt and sitemap
  Fix the Indexable, Canonical tag, robots.txt, Disallow rules and Meta nofollow checks, plus. Follow step-by-step instructions in our official help center guide.
• Fix: Core Web Vitals — LCP, INP and CLS
  Fix Largest Contentful Paint, Interaction to Next Paint, Cumulative Layout Shift and the. Follow step-by-step instructions in our official help center guide.
• Fix: page speed — slow pages, TTFB, page size, requests, compression and caching
  Fix Slow pages (over 3 s), Time to First Byte, Server Response Time, Page Size, HTTP Requests and. Follow step-by-step instructions in our official guide.
• Fix: mobile — viewport, tap targets and font size
  Fix the Viewport tag, Tap targets, Legible font size, CSS media queries, Nested tables and. Follow step-by-step instructions in our official help center guide.
• Fix: structured data and social tags (schema, Open Graph)
  Add Organization, FAQPage, Article, Breadcrumb, Product, HowTo and LocalBusiness schema that. Follow clear instructions in our official help center guide.
• Fix: GEO audit checks — answers, trust and AI crawlers
  Fix the GEO audit's answer, trust and AI crawler checks: clear answers, FAQs, authors, dates. Follow clear instructions in our official help center guide.
• Fix: Local SEO audit checks — NAP, location pages and map
  Fix the Local SEO audit's name, address and phone checks, opening hours, location pages, city in. Follow step-by-step instructions in our official guide.
• Fix: technical checks — favicon, deprecated HTML, inline styles and meta refresh
  Fix the Favicon, Deprecated HTML, Inline styles and Meta refresh checks in the Technical &. Follow step-by-step instructions in our official help center guide.

Troubleshooting

What to do when an audit fails, a PDF does not download or Google data needs a reconnect.

• An audit failed or did not finish
  What audit error messages mean, such as a site that blocks automated downloads or an audit that. Follow step-by-step instructions in our official guide.
• The PDF does not download
  Why an audit PDF is not ready yet and what to do: wait for the audit to finish, then try again. Follow step-by-step instructions in our official guide.
• Google data shows Reconnect
  Why Search Console, Google Analytics or Business Profile asks you to reconnect, and how to renew. Follow step-by-step instructions in our official guide.

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The older help articles about the previous version of the app are still in the help center and FAQs.