SEO Audit

Page two is a graveyard.

The same senior who put Local Electrical Solutions at position one in eight weeks reads your site for half a week. You get a written report and a 90-day action plan. $997, paid once.

Investment$997
Delivery10 days
Credit100%
RetainerNone

You suspect your SEO is broken. You just cannot prove it.

You have been paying an agency for 12 months. They send a monthly report with green arrows on it. Your traffic is flat. Your phone does not ring. You ask what they have actually been doing and the answer is a list of blog posts you do not remember commissioning, targeting keywords your customers do not use.

Or you do not have an agency at all. You just have the sinking feeling that your competitors have one and they are pulling away.

“Some SEO services are ripping off Australian small businesses. The over-promising and under-delivering is so prevalent that most owners are not even reporting it.”

Kate Carnell, Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman, reported in SmartCompany

Most audits are a 40-page export from Screaming Frog with the cover swapped. They list 600 issues, sort none of them, and recommend whatever the agency happens to sell. Ours is the opposite. A senior reads your site for half a week and tells you the three things that will move the needle, in plain English, in the order to do them.

The Math

Whatever your customers search for, the difference between position one and position eleven is everything. Real Sydney monthly volumes:

mechanic near me135,000/mo
dentist near me135,000/mo
restaurant sydney74,000/mo
plumber near me49,500/mo
electrician near me49,500/mo
cafe sydney49,500/mo
accountant near me14,800/mo
hairdresser sydney6,600/mo

Source: DataForSEO, April 2026. Sydney, AU. A small slice of the searches your customers make every month.

Position one captures 27.6% of clicks. Position eleven, the top of page two, captures less than 1%.

On a single keyword that does 10,000 searches a month, that is the difference between 2,760 visitors and 100. Same product, same suburb, same business. Different rank. The audit tells you, page by page, what is keeping you off page one and how to fix it in the correct order.

Source: Backlinko, 4 million Google search results analysed.

27xmore clicks at position onethan at the top of page two

What we actually look at.

Technical: Core Web Vitals, indexability, schema, redirects, canonicals, JavaScript rendering, crawl budget. On-page: titles, meta, headings, content depth, internal links. Off-page: backlink profile, toxic links, anchor distribution. Strategy: keyword opportunity map, competitor gap analysis, Local SEO footprint, and a 90-day action plan in priority order.

Tools find issues. Seniors find patterns.

Any tool can flag 600 issues. The skill is sorting them. We use Screaming Frog, Ahrefs, DataForSEO, PageSpeed Insights, and Search Console as inputs. Then a senior reads the data and tells you the three patterns that matter, the order to fix them in, and the things you can safely ignore. That part is not in any tool.

Senior, not junior

The person who reads your site is the same one who put Local Electrical at position one and built Sub Tracker. Not a graduate with a checklist.

An action plan, not a list

Most audits hand you 600 issues sorted by nothing. Ours is a 90-day plan in priority order, with the three things that move the needle on top.

Credit if you stay

The full $997 credits against any SEO subscription you start with us inside 90 days of delivery. The audit pays for itself if you continue.

Pricing

$997. Paid once. Yours forever.

One senior reading your site for half a week. A written report you keep. A 90-day plan in priority order. Credit back if you stay.

Everything Included$997
  • Full technical crawl: Core Web Vitals, indexability, schema, redirects, JavaScript rendering
  • On-page audit of every indexed URL with content gap and internal linking analysis
  • Backlink profile review with toxic-link flagging and anchor distribution
  • Keyword opportunity map and competitor gap analysis against your three closest rivals
  • Prioritised 90-day action plan and a 30-minute walkthrough call
Book your audit

Need it in five days?

10 business days standard, or 5 days Express. 50% upfront, 50% on delivery, or 100% upfront. The full $997 credits against any SEO subscription you start with us within 90 days.

How It Works

Four steps.
Ten business days.

Chris Raad, founder of Studio Slate
FounderChris Raad

Built Sub Tracker, an AI-augmented SEO platform that ships 113 keyword-targeted posts at scale. Local Electrical Solutions, a Studio Slate client, hit position one on Google in eight weeks with zero ad spend. Every audit is run by the person who built both.

Brief and access

15 minutes on the phone. You walk us through the business, the suburbs that matter, the agency history, and the rankings you actually care about. We get read access to Search Console, Analytics, and your Google Business Profile. No prep work on your end.

Crawl and gather

We run the full technical sweep with Screaming Frog, pull backlink data from Ahrefs, keyword opportunity from DataForSEO, and competitor analysis on your three closest rivals. The data layer alone takes two days. Your site is left untouched.

Read and write

A senior reads the data, finds the patterns, and writes the report. Not a 600-line export. A focused document that names the three things that will move the needle, the order to fix them, and the things you can safely leave alone.

Walkthrough and credit

You get the PDF on day 10, plus a 30-minute call to walk through it together and answer questions. If you want us to implement, the full $997 credits against any SEO subscription you start within 90 days. If you want to take the report and run it yourself, you can. You own it either way.

FAQ

Common questions.

Find the leak before your competitors do.

$997, paid once. Ten business days. A senior reads your site, names the patterns, hands you a 90-day plan. Yours to keep, whatever you do next.