Custom Site Audits
Expert SEO Site Audits
What’s Holding Your Site Back?
We know SEO. Our bespoke website audits diagnose problems with your site. They include local, due diligence, content, and technical SEO audits.
If you’re ready to grow organic traffic, improve customer experience, and increase revenue, we can help.
Types of SEO Audits
We offer a variety of site audits for your business. These audits include technical, local, content, and due diligence.
Struggling to Understand Google?
Search engines constantly move the goalpost for small businesses. What worked years ago no longer produces the same results. It can be confusing to sort out what search engines require for ranking now.
And SEO is becoming increasingly technical. If you’re having trouble sorting out terms like robots.txt, canonical, and cumulative layout shift, you aren’t alone.
Do these challenges sound familiar?
Google seems to ignore your well-written, helpful content. But your competitors still rank on page 1.
Site speed, sitemaps, and security all affect your site’s rankability. Add in canonical, no-indexed content, and soft 404 errors and it can feel overwhelming.
Pages and sections that used to do well are now almost invisible.
These factors hurt conversion rates and revenue numbers.
An SEO audit is the first step to correct these common problems. Jump to our audit packages and pricing.
Why Trust Bryan & Dena?
Dena and I run several large authority brands, reaching tech, travel, and outdoor communities. Our content is seen by millions of readers every year.
We’ve been doing SEO since our first online business in 2007. I also covered online business and SEO for a New York Times property for four years. And we’ve managed content and SEO for numerous companies – from local businesses to international brands.
Here’s more about us.
When to Order an SEO Audit: 5 Reasons
When is an audit useful? Fluctuating search rankings directly affect the bottom line. A thorough SEO audit can identify problems even before they affect traffic and earnings.
Here are five reasons to order an SEO audit.
A drastic drop in organic search traffic likely means you’ve been affected by a recent Google update. An SEO audit can discover technical, on-page, and off-page issues affecting your ranking.
A slow decline in ranking indicates it’s time to audit your site. Sites don’t decline without reason, and an in-depth SEO audit can help uncover what’s really happening.
If you are evaluating the purchase of a new web property, an SEO audit should be part of your due diligence. Are there PBNs, malware, spammy links, or other serious flaws on the site?
We audit our sites annually and recommend that you do too. A well-optimized site can degrade over time. New plugins, WordPress updates, and other changes can cause fail points on your site. It’s best to find them before they affect ranking and user experience.
Before beginning the next growth phase, it’s a good idea to have a site checkup.
Finding weak areas will maximize site growth and prevent replicating problems across the new site content.
A custom website audit can help diagnose traffic losses and growth inhibitors.
- If you feel that your growth has hit a ceiling, an audit can find what’s limiting you.
- If you were hit by a recent Google algorithm update, an audit is the only way to determine points of failure.
Here’s how much an audit will cost.
SEO Audit Packages: 4 Options
Technical SEO Audit: $1495
Our tech SEO audit focuses on how search engines and users access your site.
We check the code for crawlability and indexability. This includes robots.txt, sitemap.xml, canonicals, errors, security, head tags, redirects, and much more.
Content Audit: $1495
Focuses on the pages, posts, images, and videos on your site. We check the quality of the pages themselves (grammar, word count, formatting) and how thorough a topic is covered on the site.
We also evaluate your site for E-EAT and HCU factors.
Due Diligence Audit: From $2195
Before finalizing your company or asset purchase, our pre-acquisition audit will uncover hidden issues. Our website due diligence audit will confirm the validity of of the owner provided data. Within these 8 modules, we’ll check more than 360 factors.
Local SEO Audit: Free
You’ll get a complete overview of your Local SEO performance, including Search Rankings, Local Listings, Reviews, On-Site SEO, and Social Media. Our free local SEO audit is thorough and gives a report of your current performance in 6 key areas.
*Prices are in Canadian dollars (CAD). Canadian clients are subject to sales tax.
About Our SEO Audits
To help diagnose and correct issues with your site and search ranking, we offer four site audits:
We Invest Time in Your Audit
We invest many hours on each audit. We generate data using a variety of free and paid tools.
We spend many hours sifting that data to identify problems, issues, and glitches.
This process is manual and hands-on as we look for relationships and data trends.
200+ Point Checklist
Our proprietary systems check the following areas of site health.
- Crawlability
- Indexability
- Google Search Console
- Internal linking
- Security
- Site speed
- E-EAT
- Best practices
Audit Findings
On an average site audit, we generate from 12 to 20+ findings. These range from minor to critical importance.
We offer specific recommendations for correcting each issue on your site.
About Us
We are experienced site owners and technical SEOs.
This means that we are qualified to gather and interpret your site’s SEO data and make specific recommendations for improvements.
Because of our experience as both SEOs and publishers, we understand how to interpret the findings. Not all findings impact rankings or user experience.
We’ll guide you to the areas that will move the needle on your site.
Order Your SEO Audit with Storyteller Media
We cover hundreds of factors when auditing your website. You’ll expand your reach, authority, and influence with SEO-optimized content.
Better SEO means more revenue.
The organic search landscape has never been more competitive. An annual SEO audit is an important step to keeping your properties optimized for search.
SEO Audit Deliverables
As part of every audit, we provide a Google Sheets summary of our findings, organized by priority.
This includes reference links and suggestions to correct each item.
We’ll also include spreadsheet tabs, screenshots, and other findings as required.
Once the audit is delivered, we’ll schedule a 30-minute Zoom call.
Bryan will review the results with you and discuss specifics of how to implement the suggestions. Depending on availability, we may be able to help you make the required changes.
Learn more about our SEO consulting.
