SEO & AEO Audit

Find Out What's Keeping You Out of Google. AI Overviews. ChatGPT.

Your customers still search Google. More and more, they also ask AI tools and read the answer without clicking a single link. Our SEO & AEO audit shows why your site isn’t earning the rankings or the AI mentions it should, and turns what we find into a prioritized roadmap you can act on.

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Search has two front doors now

Ranking on Google Is Only Half the Question.

For years, an SEO audit asked one thing: can Google find, understand and rank your pages? That still matters. But buyers now ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google’s AI Overviews to recommend a company, compare options or explain a problem. Those tools build an answer from sources they trust, and they mention only a handful of businesses.

If your site is hard to understand, thin on real answers or inconsistent about who you are, you can rank on page one and still be left out of the answer.

The SEO question

Do we rank for the searches that matter?

Technical health, content and authority decide whether you show up in organic results.
The AEO question

Are we part of the answer?

Clear answers, structured data and a consistent reputation decide whether AI tools mention and cite you.
AI answer
Who are the best commercial roofing companies near Tampa?
Your company is not mentioned
Illustrative example. The same question, before and after the content is made easy for AI systems to understand and cite.
What the audit covers

Two Audits. One Roadmap.

Most audits stop at a crawler report. Ours looks at your site the way Google does and the way AI answer engines do, then connects both to the searches and questions that bring you customers.

SEO audit

Can search engines find, trust and rank you?

The foundation every other channel depends on.
01

Technical health & indexation

Crawl errors, noindex tags, canonicals, sitemaps, redirects, HTTPS and mobile-first rendering. If Google can’t access a page, nothing else matters.
02

Speed & Core Web Vitals

Load time, layout shift and responsiveness on real devices, with specific fixes like image compression, script cleanup and plugin bloat.
03

On-page & content quality

Titles, headings, search intent, thin or overlapping pages, and content that ranks just below its potential.
04

Authority & competition

Backlink profile, internal linking, and where competitors are winning searches you should own.
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AEO audit

Will AI tools understand, cite and recommend you?

Answer Engine Optimization for AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity.
01

Answer-ready content

Do your pages answer the questions buyers actually ask, clearly and early, in a form an AI system can lift and cite?
02

Structured data & entities

Organization, service, product, FAQ and review schema, plus whether search engines understand who you are and what you do.
03

AI visibility & citations

We test the questions that matter to your business across AI tools and record who gets mentioned, cited or recommended instead of you.
04

Brand consistency

Your name, services, locations and claims across your site, Google Business Profile, directories and reviews. Mixed signals get you left out.
The technical basics

Eight Quiet Mistakes That Cost You Rankings and AI Mentions.

None of these show up on a dashboard. Every one of them can hold back a site that looks fine on the surface. We check for all of them on every audit.

Common mistake

Slow pages

Google measures speed with Core Web Vitals. You don’t need a perfect score; get it good enough to move on, then fix what’s left: server compression, oversized images, plugin bloat and unnecessary JavaScript.
Common mistake

Expired or missing HTTPS

Browsers warn visitors away from sites without a valid certificate. We check certificates, mixed content and renewal dates so security never quietly breaks.
Common mistake

Canonical loops

Canonical tags tell Google which version of a page is the original. We regularly find pages that point to each other in a loop, so neither one gets the credit.
Common mistake

A leftover noindex

Sites relaunch with the “discourage search engines” setting still switched on. It’s one checkbox, and it can wipe out organic traffic overnight.
Common mistake

Broken page structure

One H1 per page, followed by H2s and H3s that match the content. Clean structure helps Google rank a page and helps AI tools pull a clear answer from it.
Common mistake

UX that gets in the way

Intrusive mobile pop-ups, auto-playing sliders and content hidden in tabs frustrate visitors and can hold rankings back.
Common mistake

Redirects done wrong

When pages move, they need proper 301 redirects. Redirecting every removed page to the homepage throws away the value those pages earned.
Common mistake

No machine-readable facts

Without structured data, search engines and AI tools have to guess what you offer, where you work and what people say about you.
What you get

Not a 90-Page PDF. A Prioritized Roadmap.

Automated tools are great at listing problems and terrible at telling you which ones matter. Our audit ends with a short, ranked plan for your site, built for your goals.

01

Discover

We learn your business, your best customers, your competitors and the searches and questions that bring in revenue.
02

Diagnose

We crawl the site, then go further by hand: technical SEO, content, authority, structured data and live AI answer testing.
03

Prioritize

Every finding is scored by likely impact and effort, so you know what to fix first and what can wait.
04

Walk through

We review the roadmap with you on a call and answer questions. Your team, or ours, can start fixing right away.

What you walk away with

Most roadmaps take 1 to 4 weeks, depending on the size of your site and business.

Sample roadmapWhat to fix, in what order
ImpactEffort
Now
Remove a stray noindex on key service pagesTechnical SEO
Now
Answer top buyer questions on 6 service pagesAEO & content
Next
Add organization, service & FAQ schemaStructured data
Next
Fix image weight and render-blocking scriptsCore Web Vitals
Later
Consolidate overlapping blog postsContent
Illustrative example. Your roadmap is built from your site, your competitors and your goals.
Proof

Audits That Turned Into Growth.

An audit is only worth what happens next. These started with the same process and became long-term organic growth.

Outback Steakhouse

Growth in organic traffic
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Protected a large base of organic traffic through a major redesign while growing visibility for valuable non-brand searches.

eDocAmerica

Growth in organic traffic
+ 0 %

Moved scattered health content onto the main site and published clear answers to real health questions, the same kind of content AI tools now cite.

Innography

Growth in organic traffic
+ 0 %

Good content had stalled. Technical cleanup, pruning underperforming pages and conversion work got organic traffic growing again.

Tools we use, plus a human who knows what to ignore:
Frequently asked questions

Questions We Hear About SEO & AEO Audits

An SEO audit is a review of everything that affects how your website performs in organic search: technical health, speed, content, structure, authority and competition.

A good one does more than list problems. It explains which ones are actually holding you back and what to do about them, in order.

AEO stands for Answer Engine Optimization. It’s the work of making your expertise easy for AI tools like Google’s AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity to understand, trust and cite when they answer a question.

Many people now get their answer without visiting a website, so being part of that answer matters. Strong AEO is built on the same foundation as strong SEO, which is why we audit both together.

Automated tools are a starting point. We use them too. But they can’t tell a critical issue from a harmless warning, judge content quality, understand your competitors or test how AI tools describe your business.

A person reviews every finding, decides what matters and builds the plan.

Most roadmaps take 1 to 4 weeks, depending on the size of your website and business. We’ll give you a realistic timeline once we understand your site.

Read access to Google Search Console and Google Analytics helps us see real search and visitor data. A short conversation about your goals, your best customers and your competitors makes the recommendations far more useful.

We don’t need access to change anything on your website.

No. Nobody honest can. Search engines and AI tools decide what they show, and their results change.

What we can do is find what’s holding you back, fix it in the right order and show you what changes as a result.

The roadmap is yours to keep. Your team can implement it, or Click Laboratory can help with some or all of the work.

Get your SEO & AEO audit

Find Out What's Holding Your Search Visibility Back.

Tell us a little about your business and where you want more visibility. We’ll take a first look at your site and follow up to talk through scope.

What happens next

Prefer to talk now? Call (813) 344-2520 or email hello@clicklaboratory.com.

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