Why I built RankBuddy

I'm Zachary Hoppaugh. I help home-service and local businesses get found online, and I built RankBuddy after running the same audit, by hand, hundreds of times.

The problem I kept seeing

Every site I audited had the same handful of fixable problems - missing schema, no review stars in search, weak titles, pages with no headline. The owners were not lazy or careless; they just had no way to see these issues, because every SEO tool either cost a fortune or spat out jargon they could not act on. They would get a report full of red Xs and phrases like "cumulative layout shift," bookmark it, and never touch it again.

What I wanted instead

A tool that does three things: finds what's wrong, explains it like a human, and writes the fix. Not "add a meta description" - the actual description, for your page, ready to paste. That's RankBuddy. It checks 40+ signals across SEO and AI visibility, grades them, explains each issue in plain English, and generates the copy-paste fix.

Our honest take on AI search

A lot of people are selling fear about AI search right now - "GEO secrets," AI-only files, magic markup. We don't. Google has said plainly that good SEO is the foundation for AI features, and that's what we build on. RankBuddy shows you what's proven to help your site get found and cited, and skips the hype. Here's exactly how it works.

Who's behind it

RankBuddy is built and run by Zachary Hoppaugh LLC - that's me, a one-person shop, not a faceless software company. I use RankBuddy every day on real client sites, which is why it keeps getting better. If you'd rather have the work done for you, you can work with me directly.