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Site audit: technical and AI-readiness checks

Site audit crawls the client's site for technical and AI-readiness issues. It ranks them by severity with a fix to copy, and shows which AI crawlers robots.txt allows.

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Site audit walkthrough, recorded on demo data. Captions are shown in the video.

What it is

Five sub-tabs: Summary, Issues, Pages, Readiness and AI access. Audits can run on demand or every week, and each issue explains the problem in plain English with the evidence and a fix.

An engine can't cite a page it can't fetch or understand. Blocked AI crawlers, missing structured data and pages that bury the answer all keep a brand out of AI answers, whatever its content says.

How to use it

Step by step, as in the video

  1. Site audit. Site audit crawls the client's site for technical SEO and AI-readiness issues. This is a real crawl of example.com.
  2. Checks passed. Checks passed is the share of checks the site passes, weighted by how severe each one is.
  3. Issues to fix. Issues to fix counts what needs work, split by severity.
  4. AI crawler access. AI crawler access shows at a glance whether any AI or search crawler is blocked.
  5. Beyond the crawl. Beyond the crawl adds checks that need other sources, such as Search Console or server logs.
  6. Run audit. Run audit crawls the site again. Audits can also repeat every week.
  7. Issues. Issues are ranked by severity, each with a plain-English explanation, the evidence and a fix to copy.
  8. Pages. Pages lists every crawled page with its status and the checks it failed and passed.
  9. Readiness. Readiness compares the client's pages with the pages AI cites for each tracked question, and shows the gaps.
  10. AI access. AI access shows which AI crawlers robots.txt allows or blocks, for training, for search and for user requests.

Questions

Should a site block AI training crawlers?

That is the client's choice. Blocking training crawlers doesn't remove a site from AI search, but blocking the search and user-request crawlers does. AI access shows each one separately.

How often does the audit run?

Whenever you press Run audit, and every week if you turn on repeating audits.

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