Quickstart: your first SEO audit

This page takes you from a fresh account to your first useful audit report in under 10 minutes. If you already have an account, skip step 1.

Step 1 – Sign up

Go to https://semoptimiser.com and click Sign Up Free.
Enter name, email, password OR click Continue with Google.
You're dropped into the dashboard with a 14-day trial of every paid feature.

Step 2 – Run an audit

Paste your full domain (including https://) in the audit input.
Pick depth 3 for a first look or depth 5 for full coverage. Depth 3 typically finishes in 5-10 minutes for a 500-page site; depth 5 for the same site in 20-40 minutes.
Click Start. The progress bar shows live URL count and current renderer activity.
You can navigate away – the audit runs in the background and appears in Audits → All audits when done.

What "depth" means

Depth N means we follow links N levels deep from the seed URL. Depth 3 covers your homepage plus everything two clicks away. For most marketing sites that's the full sitemap.

Step 3 – Read the report

When the audit finishes, the report opens automatically. Three top-level scores sit at the top:

SEO score	0-100 weighted from 200+ technical, on-page, content and link checks. Anything below 70 has obvious wins.
Core Web Vitals	Pass / needs-improvement / fail for LCP, INP and CLS. Field data preferred; lab data fallback.
AI-readability	How easily LLMs (ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.) can extract and cite content from your pages.

Below the scores, issues are grouped by severity. Fix the Criticals first – they typically account for 60-80% of the SEO score gap.

Step 4 – Connect a data source

Audits show what could be improved. Connected data sources show what's actually happening. The two highest-value connections to make on day one:

Google Search Console: shows real Google clicks, impressions and average position per audited URL. See "Connecting Google Search Console" in this category.
Google Analytics (GA4): shows traffic and conversion data per audited URL. See "Connecting Google Analytics (GA4)".

Step 5 – Schedule a recurring audit

A one-off audit shows your current state. A scheduled audit shows your trajectory and catches regressions.

Open the audit report, click the three-dot menu in the top-right, pick "Schedule recurring".
Pick weekly cadence to start. Switch to daily if you ship frequently, monthly if you're a stable content site.
Tick "Only notify on regression" if you don't want a notification every week.

Next steps

Invite teammates: Inviting teammates and setting roles.
Connect Bing too: Connecting Bing Webmaster Tools.
Read the full report reference: Understanding the 200+ SEO checks.

Step 2 – Run an audit

Paste your full domain (including https://) in the audit input.

Pick depth 3 for a first look or depth 5 for full coverage. Depth 3 typically finishes in 5-10 minutes for a 500-page site; depth 5 for the same site in 20-40 minutes.

Click Start. The progress bar shows live URL count and current renderer activity.

You can navigate away – the audit runs in the background and appears in Audits → All audits when done.

What "depth" means

Depth N means we follow links N levels deep from the seed URL. Depth 3 covers your homepage plus everything two clicks away. For most marketing sites that's the full sitemap.

Step 3 – Read the report

When the audit finishes, the report opens automatically. Three top-level scores sit at the top:

SEO score	0-100 weighted from 200+ technical, on-page, content and link checks. Anything below 70 has obvious wins.
Core Web Vitals	Pass / needs-improvement / fail for LCP, INP and CLS. Field data preferred; lab data fallback.
AI-readability	How easily LLMs (ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.) can extract and cite content from your pages.

Below the scores, issues are grouped by severity. Fix the Criticals first – they typically account for 60-80% of the SEO score gap.

Step 4 – Connect a data source

Audits show what could be improved. Connected data sources show what's actually happening. The two highest-value connections to make on day one:

Google Search Console: shows real Google clicks, impressions and average position per audited URL. See "Connecting Google Search Console" in this category.

Google Analytics (GA4): shows traffic and conversion data per audited URL. See "Connecting Google Analytics (GA4)".

Step 5 – Schedule a recurring audit

A one-off audit shows your current state. A scheduled audit shows your trajectory and catches regressions.

Open the audit report, click the three-dot menu in the top-right, pick "Schedule recurring".

Pick weekly cadence to start. Switch to daily if you ship frequently, monthly if you're a stable content site.

Tick "Only notify on regression" if you don't want a notification every week.

Quickstart: your first SEO audit

Step 1 – Sign up

Step 2 – Run an audit

Step 3 – Read the report

Step 4 – Connect a data source

Step 5 – Schedule a recurring audit

Next steps

Audit, index and rank –
without a fifth subscription.

Quickstart: your first SEO audit

Step 1 – Sign up

Step 2 – Run an audit

Step 3 – Read the report

Step 4 – Connect a data source

Step 5 – Schedule a recurring audit

Next steps

Audit, index and rank –
without a fifth subscription.

Quickstart: your first SEO audit

Step 1 – Sign up

Step 2 – Run an audit

Step 3 – Read the report

Step 4 – Connect a data source

Step 5 – Schedule a recurring audit

Next steps

Audit, index and rank –without a fifth subscription.

Quickstart: your first SEO audit

Step 1 – Sign up

Step 2 – Run an audit

Step 3 – Read the report

Step 4 – Connect a data source

Step 5 – Schedule a recurring audit

Next steps

Audit, index and rank –without a fifth subscription.

Audit, index and rank –
without a fifth subscription.

Audit, index and rank –
without a fifth subscription.