Free SEO audit that tells you exactly what to fix

What we find on almost every site we check

We don't just describe SEO problems in the abstract. Here is what we actually find when we audit real local business websites.

• Every single one had 5-star Google reviews - and not one had the review schema that makes star ratings show up in search.
• Most were missing or duplicating meta descriptions, so Google wrote its own snippet.
• Most inner service pages had no real headline (H1) telling Google what they were about.
• Most had no Open Graph tags, so their links looked broken when shared.

We hand-verify every finding before we report it, because audit tools - ours included - throw the occasional false positive. The numbers above are issues we confirmed in the page source, not just tool flags.

A good SEO audit answers one question: why isn't this site ranking? Most tools bury that answer in jargon. RankBuddy gives it to you straight - what's wrong, why it matters, and how to fix it.

What a free SEO audit actually checks

SEO isn't one thing. It's dozens of small signals that add up to whether Google trusts your site enough to rank it. RankBuddy audits all of them and groups them into nine categories so nothing slips through:

• Page speed - real Google PageSpeed data, with honest context on what's in your control versus your platform.
• Search appearance - title tags, meta descriptions, character lengths, and duplicate content across pages.
• Page structure - heading hierarchy (one H1, logical H2s) that helps Google understand your page.
• Images - missing alt text and oversized images that slow you down and hurt accessibility.
• Schema markup - whether you have the structured data Google and AI engines use to understand your business.
• Social tags - Open Graph and Twitter cards that control how your links look when shared.
• Links - broken links, internal linking depth, and orphan pages that Google can't reach.
• Technical SEO - canonical tags, robots directives, mobile readiness, and crawlability.
• AI readiness - the signals that decide whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews can cite you.

Why most free SEO checkers leave you stuck

Run your site through a typical free SEO checker and you get a wall of red Xs and phrases like "reduce cumulative layout shift" or "add hreflang annotations." That tells you something is wrong. It doesn't tell you what to do. So the report gets bookmarked and forgotten.

RankBuddy is built the opposite way. Every issue is written for a business owner, not a developer. And instead of stopping at "add a meta description," it writes the description - for your specific page, based on your actual content - so you can paste it in and move on.

How to run your SEO audit

Free vs. Pro: what you get

The free plan is genuinely useful on its own - you can audit any page as many times as you want and run a full-site crawl once a month. Upgrading unlocks the parts that save you the most time:

• AI-written fixes - the actual code and copy for every issue, not just the diagnosis.
• Competitor comparison - paste a rival's URL and see exactly where they beat you.
• Unlimited full-site audits and monthly change tracking so you can prove progress.

See the full breakdown on the pricing page, or start free and upgrade only if you need more.