// Guide_06

    Comparing SEO audit services.

    Automated export, human review, or forensic audit. What each actually delivers, what each costs, and which one your situation needs.

    Three very different products are all sold as 'an SEO audit'. Buying the wrong depth is the most common way companies waste audit budget: an automated export can't prioritize, and a forensic audit is overkill for a thirty-page site. Here's how to match depth to situation.

    // Key_Takeaways

    • Automated exports list issues; they cannot rank them by revenue impact.
    • The value of an audit is the sequencing, not the issue count.
    • Any audit you can't implement within a quarter is a document, not an investment.

    An issue list is not an audit. An audit tells you what to fix first and what to ignore forever.

    — Arise GEO, SEO Audit Services

    Buy the depth you can implement, not the depth that sounds thorough.

    — Arise GEO, SEO Audit Services
    3 tiers
    Audit depths
    $4,500
    Our forensic audit
    2–3 weeks
    Delivery time
    Credited
    Into month one
    // Tier 1

    Automated tool export

    A crawl report with severity labels. Useful for a quick health check, useless for prioritization or for anything involving content, entities or intent.

    • Fast and cheap
    • No prioritization
    • No content or entity analysis
    • Best as a monitoring layer
    // Tier 2

    Human review

    A consultant reads the crawl and adds judgement. Better sequencing, but usually still stops at recommendations rather than tickets.

    • Judgement applied to findings
    • Some prioritization
    • Rarely implementation-grade
    • Good for small sites
    // Tier 3

    Forensic audit

    Crawl and render analysis, log review, architecture, content, entity and AI visibility work, delivered as ranked tickets with acceptance criteria and impact estimates.

    • Rendered-DOM and log analysis
    • Entity and AI visibility coverage
    • Ticket-ready output
    • Revenue-impact ranking
    // Choosing

    Match depth to situation

    Under 30 pages: tool export. Stable mid-size site with a known problem: human review. Revenue-critical site with technical debt or an unexplained drop: forensic.

    • Site size and template count
    • Whether the problem is known
    • Dev capacity available
    • Revenue at stake
    // The_Contract

    The 180-day money-back guarantee.

    We can promise this because our methodology already works. Hundreds of pages now sit in position #1 across our clients' catalogs. The risk shouldn't be on you — it's on us.

    • 01We run the full 10-stage audit and deliver a sequenced 90-day plan.
    • 02You implement our recommendations (or hire us to implement them).
    • 03If you don't see measurable ranking and revenue improvement in 3–6 months — we refund you. In full.
    Lock in your audit slot →
    // Frequently_Asked

    Questions about this engagement.

    Which tier do most of your clients need?+

    Forensic, because they come to us with revenue at stake and an unexplained drop or a stalled program.

    Can you validate an audit we already paid for?+

    Yes. We'll separate the real findings from the noise and convert what's real into tickets.

    Do you offer a free audit?+

    We run free tools and a free directional site check. The full forensic audit is paid because the analysis is the product.

    What's included in yours?+

    Ten stages covering crawl and render, indexation, architecture, content, schema and entities, AI visibility, speed and competitive position.

    Buy the right depth of audit.

    Audits scoped within 24 hours. Results within 90 days, or your money back.

    Request Your Audit →