// Price_01

    What an SEO audit costs and what changes the price.

    Our forensic audit is $4,500. Here's exactly what's in it, what makes audits cost more or less elsewhere, and when you shouldn't buy one at all.

    Audit pricing ranges from a few hundred dollars for a tool export with a logo on it to five figures for genuine forensic work. The difference isn't length, it's whether the findings are prioritized, quantified and executable. Ours is $4,500, flat, and it is credited into your first retainer month if you continue with us.

    // Key_Takeaways

    • A cheap audit is usually a crawl-tool export; the analysis is the expensive part, and the part that matters.
    • Price scales with catalogue size, template count, market count and technical stack complexity.
    • An audit is only worth buying if you have the capacity to implement it within a quarter.

    You're not paying for the findings. You're paying for the prioritization — the order in which fixing things makes money.

    — Arise GEO, SEO Audit Cost

    If nobody on your side can implement it this quarter, buy the implementation, not the audit.

    — Arise GEO, SEO Audit Cost
    $4,500
    Forensic audit
    10 stages
    Audit scope
    Credited
    Into month one
    180-day
    Money-back window
    // Our price

    $4,500, flat, credited into month one

    A ten-stage forensic audit covering crawl and render, indexation, architecture, content, schema and entities, AI visibility, speed, and competitive position — delivered as a ranked, ticketed fix list.

    • Ten-stage forensic process
    • Ticket-ready findings with acceptance criteria
    • Revenue-impact prioritization
    • Credited into the first retainer month
    // Drivers

    What makes an audit cost more

    Catalogue size, number of unique templates, international markets, headless or custom front ends, and whether AI visibility probing is included.

    • SKU and template volume
    • Multi-market and hreflang scope
    • Headless or custom rendering
    • AI probe set size
    // Comparison

    What you get at each price band

    Under $1,000 is typically an automated export. $1,500–$3,000 buys a human review. $4,000–$15,000 buys forensic analysis with implementation-grade output.

    • Tool exports vs analysis
    • Generic checklists vs prioritized fixes
    • Findings vs tickets
    • One-off vs re-baselined
    // Honesty

    When not to buy an audit

    Pre-product-market-fit, no implementation capacity, or an audit less than six months old that hasn't been executed — in all three cases, spend the money elsewhere.

    • No dev capacity this quarter
    • Recent unexecuted audit on file
    • Site under 30 pages
    • Category demand doesn't exist yet
    // 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.

    Is the audit really a flat fee?+

    Yes for standard scope. Very large catalogues, many markets or unusual stacks get quoted before we start — never after.

    How long does it take?+

    Two to three weeks from kickoff, including the readout session with your team.

    Do we have to sign a retainer?+

    No. The audit stands alone and you own the output.

    What if you find nothing?+

    That has never happened, but if the findings don't justify the fee we'll tell you before invoicing further work.

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

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