SEO + AI-Search Audit

Will ChatGPT cite your business when a customer asks?

Search has split. Google still drives traffic. ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's own AI Overviews now answer the question directly — and only cite the brands they trust. This audit tells you where you stand on both sides, with copy-paste fixes your developer can drop into Cursor.

What's covered

14 dimensions. Two sides of search.

Traditional SEO (8 checks)

  • On-page: title, meta description, heading hierarchy
  • Schema.org structured data presence + validity
  • Page speed (Lighthouse / Core Web Vitals)
  • Mobile-friendliness + viewport handling
  • Internal linking + crawl depth
  • Sitemap.xml + robots.txt configuration
  • Canonical tags + duplicate-content risk
  • Local-SEO signals (NAP, Google Business Profile, citations)

AI Search Optimization (6 checks)

  • llms.txt root-file presence (the AI sitemap)
  • FAQ + Author + Organization JSON-LD coverage
  • Robots policy for GPTBot, anthropic-ai, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended
  • Citation-friendly content structure (clear claims, sourced facts)
  • E-E-A-T signals: author bio, credentials, real address/phone
  • Live citation test: do ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews actually surface you for your category keywords?
Pricing

Three tiers. Pick the depth you want.

Quick scan

$97 – $197

One run of the full 14-point audit. Hosted HTML report, scores out of 100, top-5 fixes with copy-paste prompts. You execute the fixes (or your developer does).

  • ~30 min turnaround
  • Hosted report URL
  • Top-5 prioritized fixes
  • Copy-paste prompts for each
Most picked

Full audit + 90-day plan

$497 – $997

Quick scan plus a fully prioritized 90-day roadmap, weekly progress checklist, and a second audit pass after fixes are shipped to verify movement.

  • ~2 hour turnaround
  • 90-day roadmap, week-by-week
  • Re-audit included after fixes ship
  • Slack/email support during 90 days

Audit + strategy

$1,500 – $3,000

Full audit plus a tailored content strategy, competitor teardown, LLM-citation plan, and a 30-minute strategy call to walk you through every finding personally.

  • 30-min 1:1 strategy call (Zoom)
  • Competitor teardown (top 3)
  • LLM-citation plan with seed prompts
  • Custom content brief library

Pricing varies within each tier based on site size and category competitiveness — small local sites land at the low end, multi-location or e-commerce at the high end. You'll get a flat quote before any work starts.

Sample report

Here's what you'll receive.

Every audit is delivered as a standalone HTML report at a public URL — share it with your team, link it to your developer, leave it open in a tab. The exact report below is what we ran for example.com so you can see scoring, formatting, and the prompt library.

Note: the live report URL is sent privately on purchase. Public sample is anonymized.

Cover summary3-line exec
SEO scores8 / 100
AISO scores6 / 100
Top-5 fixesw/ prompts
Request your audit

Send a URL. Get a quote in 24 hours.

I price per site after a 5-minute look. To start: email me the URL, your primary keyword, and the tier you're interested in. I confirm scope and price, you pay via PayPal, the report ships within the tier's turnaround.

By email (preferred)

Click below — pre-fills a draft you can edit and send.

Compose audit request

Response time: same business day if requested before 5pm Pacific. Otherwise next morning.

By phone

Prefer to talk it through? Voicemail is read same-day.

(951) 565-2593

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FAQ

Audit questions, answered.

How is this different from a free SEO checker?

Free checkers score the SEO surface — meta tags, page speed, broken links. They don't touch AI search. ChatGPT and Perplexity now answer ~30% of commercial queries before the user ever clicks a search result, and free tools don't even know that's happening. This audit measures both, and tells you which fixes change which side.

Will the fixes actually rank me higher?

Fixing fundamentals doesn't guarantee rankings — but ignoring them guarantees you stay behind. The audit tells you what's broken, what's missing, and what your competitors already have. Whether you ship the fixes is the part I can't do for you (unless you upgrade to the strategy tier and book the call).

Do you do the fixes for me, or just identify them?

The Quick scan and Full audit identify and prompt — your developer ships them. The Audit + strategy tier includes the call where I walk you through implementation, and we can negotiate a separate fixed-fee implementation engagement after that. Most fixes are 1-3 hours of dev time per fix.

How fresh is the AI-citation data?

Live, run at audit time. I literally query ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews with your category keywords during the audit, capture whether you're cited, and screenshot it. AI citation patterns shift weekly, so the audit is a snapshot — that's why the Full tier includes a re-audit after fixes ship.

What if I'm a local business — does AI search even matter for me?

More than you think. "Best [X] near me" is now an AI Overview surface for ~60% of local categories. If your competitor's Google Business Profile is rich and yours isn't, the AI surface picks them and skips you. The local-SEO checks in this audit are tuned for exactly this case.