What is a technical SEO audit?
A technical SEO audit is a structured review of how search engines crawl, render, index and understand a website. It checks robots.txt, sitemap, canonicals, redirects, internal links, structured data, Core Web Vitals, mobile rendering and template-level issues before content or link work begins.
When do I need a technical SEO audit?
You need one before a migration, after a traffic drop, when indexed pages do not match the pages you expect, when Core Web Vitals or rendering problems block growth, or before investing heavily in content and links. The audit prevents you from building on a broken foundation.
Is this different from a full SEO audit?
Yes. A full SEO audit also covers content strategy, competitors, backlink gaps and commercial positioning. A technical SEO audit focuses on crawlability, indexation, architecture, performance, structured data and implementation issues that developers can fix.
What do I get after the audit?
You get a prioritized issue list, evidence for each finding, affected URL patterns, recommended fixes, developer-ready notes and a short strategic summary that explains what should be fixed first and what can wait.
Do you implement the fixes?
I can implement lightweight CMS and markup fixes directly when access allows, or work with your developers through tickets, PR review and QA. The audit itself is scoped separately from implementation so the diagnosis stays clean.
Do you audit AI-crawler access too?
Yes. For this site category, technical SEO now includes GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot and other AI crawler access, plus whether important content is available in clean HTML that retrieval systems can parse.
How much does a technical SEO audit cost?
Pricing is quoted after I know the site size, templates, crawl depth, stack and urgency. I do not publish fixed packages because a 40-page service site and a 40,000-URL ecommerce site are different audits.
Can this audit run before AI SEO, GEO or AEO work?
Yes, and it usually should. AI search visibility depends on crawlability, clean entities, structured content and reliable HTML. If those are broken, GEO and AEO work gets built on weak infrastructure.
What are technical SEO services?
Ongoing engineering-side SEO work: crawl and indexation management, site speed, structured data, migrations and log analysis. An audit is the diagnostic snapshot; technical SEO services are the continuing practice that keeps the machine layer healthy.
What is technical SEO?
The layer of SEO that makes a site machine-readable: crawlability, indexation, speed, rendering, structured data and architecture. Content can't rank or get cited if the technical layer blocks the machines from reading it.
What is the difference between technical SEO and SEO?
Technical SEO is one of three layers; full SEO adds content (intent, quality) and authority (links, mentions). A full audit covers all three, a technical audit goes deep on the machine-access layer alone.
How to perform technical SEO?
Crawl the site, compare against Search Console data, check robots/canonicals/redirects/sitemaps, measure Core Web Vitals, validate structured data, and verify AI-crawler access (CDN and WAF included). Then fix in impact order, template-level first.