SEO audits for small businesses · United States and Canada
An SEO audit that shows its working.
Up to fifteen things worth doing to your website, in the order we’d do them. Each one with what we saw, the date we saw it, and the published rule it sits against. No score out of a hundred. No list of two hundred errors.
Beta: first 5 sites, no chargeA delivery date in writing~20 minutes of your time
Free first look · no account, no email required
A first look at your website, and whether the eight AI systems can see it
Enter an address and, in about fifteen seconds, you get two things: what your site tells each of the eight AI companies’ robots, and twelve plain checks on the page itself. Every line says what we found, what it means, what to do, and the published rule it sits against. A site can end up blocked from an AI system without anyone meaning it to — for example, by a line pasted in to keep AI out that blocked the wrong robot.1
Showing a worked example on a demonstration site until you enter your own. Leave an email and we’ll send you the result; there’s no account to make and nothing to cancel. How we handle it.
Google AI Overviews & AI Mode
Search Console control set to Inherit — the parent property says Exclude
Blocked
ChatGPT search
OAI-SearchBot disallowed in robots.txt
Blocked
Perplexity
PerplexityBot disallowed in robots.txt
Blocked
Microsoft Copilot (Bing)
noarchive on every page — does nothing on Google, blocks Copilot on Bing
Limited
Google Gemini apps
Google-Extended disallowed. This one may well be deliberate
Your choice
Claude
No rule names any of Anthropic's three robots
Allowed in
Meta AI
No rule names Meta-WebIndexer
Allowed in
Apple — Siri, Spotlight, Safari
No rule names Applebot, and no Googlebot restriction to inherit
Allowed in
Three blocked, one degraded, three clear — and the three that are clear are clear by luck. Nothing in this site’s file names Anthropic’s, Meta’s or Apple’s robots, so those three can see it. Not because anyone decided they should: because the list somebody pasted in didn’t happen to include them.
A document, not a login. Roughly twenty pages, and page one is the entire list — if you read nothing else, you have it.
Up to fifteen findings, ranked
Ordered by what we'd do first, not by severity colour. The order is explained, and you can disagree with it. A small site may honestly have fewer, and then page one says why. We never pad a list to reach a number.
An evidence page behind every finding
What was seen, the date it was seen, who read it, and the published Google, Bing or platform rule it sits against — quoted exactly, with the source and the date we read it.
The eight-platform AI visibility check
Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, Gemini apps, Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT search, Perplexity, Claude, Meta AI, and Apple's Siri, Spotlight and Safari — each read against that company's own published crawler documentation.
What we found and deliberately left off the list
Everything that didn't make the list, with the reason it came off. Including anything that rests on professional opinion rather than a published rule — we record those and we don't charge you to act on them.
Your starting line
The numbers as reported today, each with its source and date, before anyone touches anything. No total, on purpose.
A person's sign-off
A person reads every page before it is sent, and signs it off for the OnRankSEO team. That is a standing rule, not a courtesy.
The part nobody else will show you
Read a complete audit before you buy one.
Not a sample. Not a preview behind a form. The entire document for a demonstration business — every finding, every evidence page, what we won’t promise and the questions we couldn’t answer. If it isn’t worth twenty minutes of your time after reading it, don’t ask for one.
Every other page you’ll read today is uniformly confident. Here is the part they leave out, and you should weigh it before spending anything — with us or anyone else.
We will never tell you:
Where you’ll rank, or when. No position, no page one, no date. Google’s own documentation states that indexing and serving aren’t guaranteed.3
That you’ll be cited in an AI answer. Clearing a block makes your site eligible. None of the eight companies publishes how its AI chooses which sources to cite — we looked at every one, and we record where we looked.
How much traffic you’ll gain. We have no way to know, and neither does anyone quoting you a percentage.
What your competitors are doing and why. We can see their pages. We cannot see their accounts, their spend, or their intent.
Anything Google doesn’t document. Where the documentation is silent, our report says it’s silent and names where we looked.
Three Google accounts, about twenty minutes, on your phone if you like. We send a page that walks through each step. You never give us a password, and you can remove us in ten seconds without asking.
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We read your site; a person checks every line
Not a crawler dumping a list. Six passes over your site, your Search Console data and your Business Profile, plus the eight-platform check — with every observation dated as it’s made. AI software does the first read. A person then re-checks every finding against the live evidence before anything reaches you. How an audit is made
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We deliver it on a call
We walk you through page one, answer whatever you want to ask, and leave you the document. It’s yours to keep, and yours to hand to anyone else.
Beta
We are in beta. The first 5 sites are audited at no charge, because we need real businesses to prove the process on before we take anyone’s money — and we’d rather say that plainly than dress it up as a launch offer. The published price after beta is $499, one-time, and it is printed here now so nobody is surprised later.
Tier 1 · SEO Audit · Beta
No chargefirst 5 sites · $499 after beta
What we ask instead: twenty minutes to set up access, a thirty-minute call when we deliver, and your honest opinion of the document.
What’s fixed
A delivery date in writing. We give you one when we say yes, and you hold us to it.
No subscription. Nothing renews. There is nothing to cancel.
No upsell in the document. The report is the report.
The deliverable is yours — take it to another provider if you want.
We ask for the lowest access that does the job, and never ownership of your Business Profile.
Beta means beta. The process is real and the document is complete, but you may be the first business to see a given page. Tell us what confused you; that is the price.
Ask Datum
our assistant
A datum is the reference point a survey is measured from — a known, fixed thing you check everything else against. Our assistant is named after it, and it works the same way: ask it any SEO question, and it answers from published documentation and tells you which page it came from.
It is bound by the same rules our reports are. It will not tell you where you’ll rank, when, or that you’ll appear in an AI answer — and if you ask it to, it will say so and explain why. Where the documentation is silent, it says it’s silent rather than guessing.
References
Platform crawler documentation. Google, “List of Google’s common crawlers”; OpenAI, “Overview of OpenAI Crawlers”; Perplexity, “Perplexity Crawlers”; Anthropic, “Does Anthropic crawl data from the web…”; Apple, “About Applebot” (published 2026-09-04); Meta, “Meta Web Crawlers” (updated 2026-05-21). Read and recorded 2026-09-15.
Google, “Search generative AI control,” Search Console Help — the setting that governs whether a site is eligible to appear in AI Overviews and AI Mode, including inheritance from a parent property. Read 2026-09-11.
Google, “Optimizing your website for generative AI features on Google Search” (documentation updated 2026-07-10): “Just because a page meets all requirements, best practices, and complies with the policies, doesn’t mean that Google will crawl, index, or serve its content. Indexing and serving aren’t guaranteed.” Read 2026-09-11.
We footnote this page for the same reason we footnote the report. Everything on it is a claim about how a named system behaves, every one of those systems publishes its own documentation, and you are entitled to check us. If another firm tells you something about how Google or ChatGPT works, ask them for the page it came from.