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Starter Prompts for AI Citation Tracking: 12 Prompts, 144 Checks

2026-10-09

A new endpoint builds a starter prompt set for an AI citation tracker from your topic, brand and competitors. Our first version was 18 prompts and didn't fit our own cheaper plans, so we changed both.

Build a Site Audit Report Tool in 50 Lines of Python (Part 1)

2026-10-09

Paste a URL, get a plain-English fix list. Part 1 of a three-part build: call the audit API and render a client-ready HTML report in about 50 lines.

Accessibility Audit API: WCAG 2.1 AA Checks in One Call

2026-10-08

How to run a WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility audit from code: what the response contains, what automated checks can and can't find, and how to use it across a site.

Top-Up Checks for AI Citation Tracking: 500 for $10, and When to Upgrade Instead

2026-10-08

Our out-of-checks message told customers to buy top-up checks that did not exist. Now they do: 500 checks for $10 or 2,000 for $36. Here is how they are spent, and when a bigger plan is the better buy.

Conversion Score API: Does Your Page Ask for Anything?

2026-10-07

We scored 16 well-known pages on headline, call to action, trust, forms and objections. Our own homepage came 14th of 15. What the score checks and what it can't see.

GEO Audit API: Score How Visible a Page Is to AI Search

2026-10-07

What a GEO audit API measures, how it differs from an SEO audit, and how to call one: 26 checks on whether AI assistants can read, trust and cite a page.

Site Crawl Case Study: 44 Pages, One Broken Link, 17 Orphans

2026-10-06

We crawled our own agency site with POST /crawl. 20 seconds, 44 pages: one 404 a blog post still links to, a redirect five posts point at, and 17 pages nothing links to.

Website Privacy Audit: Find What Your Site Sends to Third Parties

2026-10-06

A website privacy audit starts with one question: what does the site load from other companies? Here is how to get that list, and what to do with it.

Plain-English SEO Fixes You Can Hand Straight to a Client

2026-10-05

Every fix in an audit now carries a jargon-free sentence and a tag for who should fix it: developer, content or marketing. No translation step for agencies.

One Deep Audit for $12: Full Report, No Subscription

2026-10-05

See any site's score for free, then unlock every fix for $12. One Deep Audit, the full hosted report, and PDF, Markdown and CSV exports. No plan needed.

Site Crawl API: Broken Links, Redirects and a Site Map

2026-10-05

One call crawls up to 100 pages of a site and returns broken pages, redirects, duplicate titles, orphan pages and a shareable site map. Pro, Ultra or one credit.

Tracking Pixel Audit: List Every Tracker a Page Loads

2026-10-05

A new endpoint lists every analytics, ad, session-replay and chat tool a page loads, including pixels a tag manager injects that never appear in the source.

Why We Publish All 14,000+ of Our SEO Checks

2026-10-05

Every check behind a Deep Audit is listed in a public catalog: what it tests, what passes, how much it weighs. Here is why, and how to use it before you buy.

Deep Audit Case Study: What Missing Schema Costs a Dental Group

2026-10-02

A real regional dental group writes great content (4.16 AI score) but scores 2.54 on classic SEO — no local schema, no review markup, no service pages marked up. Here's what that costs in new patients, and the code that wins it back.

Accessibility Audit PDFs from Claude or ChatGPT: A Free Skill for ADA Defense Work

2026-09-29

Turn SEO Score API's WCAG 2.1 AA audit into dated PDF reports and before/after remediation reports, from Claude, ChatGPT, or a terminal. Open-source, set up in minutes.

How Agencies Run Deep Audits Across a Whole Client Roster

2026-09-29

The diagnosis is nearly identical across every client — the fix work is not. A repeatable agency workflow: baseline, prioritize by section score, prove the delta, monitor for regressions.

Why SEO Tools Miss Yoast Schema: JSON-LD @graph Explained

2026-09-26

Yoast and Rank Math put all their schema in one JSON-LD @graph block, and code that reads only the top-level @type sees none of it. How to parse it right.

Fixing a Low Text-to-HTML Ratio (and Why the Audit Flags It)

2026-09-25

A 4% text-to-HTML ratio means 96% of your page is markup and script. It is not a ranking factor — it is a proxy for problems that are. Here's what it actually detects, what it misses, and how to fix the underlying causes.

We Built AI Citation Tracking, Then Ran It On Ourselves

2026-09-24

Track whether AI answer engines mention and cite your brand. GPT-6, Claude, Perplexity and Nova, on every paid plan. Here is what they said about us today.

llms.txt for Ecommerce: Get Your Catalog Quoted by AI Answer Engines

2026-09-22

AI shopping assistants pull product answers from the open web. How to write an llms.txt for ecommerce that points them at your catalog, policies and content.

The Q4 SEO Readiness Checklist You Can Run With One API

2026-09-18

Before your busiest quarter, run this checklist across your site: performance, structured data, broken links, mobile, monitoring. Catch regressions before peak.

Which Schema Types Actually Apply to Your Business? A Checklist by Vertical

2026-09-15

Not every schema type applies to every site. Exactly which ones matter for law firms, ecommerce, SaaS, healthcare and local business, with copy-paste JSON-LD.

Deep Audit vs. Regular Audit: Which One Should You Run?

2026-09-11

Two audit modes: a fast /audit with 80+ checks that returns in seconds, and an async Deep Audit running 14,000+ checks. When to use each, with working code for both.

How to Read a Deep Audit Report: All 9 Sections Explained

2026-09-08

A Deep Audit returns an LAI score, three sub-scores and nine section scores. How to read every part and turn it into a prioritised fix list, with an example.

We Deep-Audited America's Biggest Injury Firm: 4.1 on AI, 2.96 on SEO

2026-09-04

We ran Morgan & Morgan's homepage through our Deep Audit: strong for AI answer engines, classic SEO left on the table. The output, and the code to fix it.

Buy Deep Audit Credits — No Subscription Required

2026-08-30

Deep Site Audit credits are now available a la carte. Run our 14,000+ check deep audit without a monthly plan: buy a pack, spend one credit per audit.

Google Preferred Sources: A Rare Lever Publishers Actually Control

2026-08-27

Google Preferred Sources lets readers choose your site to appear more often in Search. Why it matters in the AI-search era, and the free check in every audit.

Turn Airtable into a Client SEO Audit Tracker

2026-08-25

Add an SEO audit column to your Airtable client roster that fills itself: a scripting extension that reads each URL and writes back score, grade and top fix.

How to Run a Deep Audit: The Complete Guide

2026-08-20

Running an AI-powered Deep Audit via API: authentication, the async submit-and-poll flow, SDKs for Python, Node, n8n and MCP, and wiring it into your CI/CD.

Introducing Deep Audit: an AI-Powered, 9-Dimension Site Audit

2026-08-20

Deep Audit scores any URL across 9 dimensions with ~150 AI analysis passes, built for the AI-search era and delivered as an API. Included on Pro and Ultra.

We Ran Our New Deep Audit on Moz, Ahrefs, Semrush — and Ourselves

2026-08-20

We audited the SEO giants' homepages, and ours, with Deep Audit. Everyone clusters in one band and shares a blind spot: structured data. Here is the data.

A 5-Minute Postman Tour of the SEO Score API

2026-08-18

Set up SEO Score API in Postman with a shared key and base URL, then walk every core endpoint, audit, batch, usage and monitors, in about five minutes flat.

Add an SEO Quality Gate to Your GitLab Pipeline

2026-08-11

A copy-paste .gitlab-ci.yml job that audits your deploy preview, fails the pipeline when the score drops below a threshold, and posts to the merge request.

Automate SEO Audits with Zapier — No Code Required

2026-08-04

Wire the SEO Score API into Zapier with Webhooks so any trigger becomes an automatic SEO audit that posts scores to Slack, email or a sheet. No code needed.

Automate WCAG Accessibility Monitoring with the SEO Score API

2026-07-28

Accessibility regressions stay invisible until a demand letter arrives. A Python script that audits on a schedule, tracks the score and alerts when it drops.

Run Bulk SEO Audits from Google Sheets with Apps Script

2026-07-21

Paste a column of URLs, run one menu command, get scores, grades and top fixes filled in. A Google Apps Script that turns a sheet into a bulk SEO audit tool.

Best Ahrefs Alternatives in 2026 (Free & API)

2026-07-15

Looking for an Ahrefs alternative? Compare the best Ahrefs competitors by use case — all-in-one suites, backlink tools, site auditors, and API-first options.

Best Moz Alternatives in 2026: Top Tools Compared

2026-07-15

Looking for the best Moz alternative in 2026? Compare Semrush, Ahrefs, Screaming Frog, and SEO Score API by use case: backlinks, audits, and API access.

Give GPT SEO Tools with OpenAI Function Calling

2026-07-14

Wire the SEO Score API into OpenAI function calling so GPT can audit URLs, read AIO and AEO scores, and explain fixes. Complete Python example included.

Build a Slack SEO Audit Bot with a Slash Command

2026-07-07

Turn any SEO audit into a Slack slash command. Type /seo example.com and get the score, grade and top fixes posted to the channel, in about 60 lines of Node.

Auditing AI-Generated Pages: SEO Quality Gates for Content Pipelines

2026-06-30

Programmatic LLM content needs a programmatic quality gate. How to wire SEO Score API into a pipeline so an AI-written page only ships if it clears your bar.

Catching SEO Regressions in Vercel Preview Deploys

2026-06-25

Vercel gives you a preview URL on every PR. Turn it into a PR-blocking SEO check in three steps, including the failure modes that bit us the first time round.

One SEO Tools API, Five Workflows Your Team Probably Already Needs

2026-06-23

One SEO tools API endpoint becomes five different tools depending where you wire it in: CI gates, monitoring, agent loops, client reports, and score badges.

Generating Weekly Client SEO Reports Automatically

2026-06-18

The highest-retention agency deliverable per hour of work. The full setup: weekly cron, score deltas, top regressions and wins, branded email in about 80 lines.

How SEO Score API Fits Alongside Ahrefs and Moz (Not Against Them)

2026-06-16

SEO Score API is not an Ahrefs or Moz replacement, it sits next to them. Which jobs each tool does, and the workflows an API beside a dashboard unlocks.

Wiring an SEO Analyzer API into a Next.js Build

2026-06-11

An SEO analyzer API can run against every Next.js preview deploy and fail the build when the score drops. The full setup with Vercel, GitHub Actions and YAML.

Choosing an SEO API: A Buyer's Checklist for Engineering Teams

2026-06-09

An SEO API lives in your code, your CI, your monitoring, not a dashboard. Eight questions engineering teams should ask first, and the honest answers to expect.

How Far the Free SEO Audit API Gets You (2 Audits a Day, Honestly)

2026-06-04

A free SEO audit API is only useful if the free tier is. What you can actually build with 2 audits a day on SEO Score API, and exactly where the wall is.

The SEO Report API: From One Call to a Shareable Client Report

2026-06-02

An SEO report API turns one audit call into a report you can email, embed or post to Slack. How to go from a single /audit response to three shareable formats.

The SEO Checker API: Pass/Fail SEO Checks for Code, Not Dashboards

2026-05-28

An SEO checker API returns pass/fail results your code can threshold, diff and gate on. How it differs from a dashboard, with examples in Python and curl.

Continuous SEO Monitoring for SaaS Marketing Sites

2026-05-26

SaaS marketing sites change constantly: new landing pages, pricing, docs. Continuous monitoring catches the regressions nobody noticed shipping. The full setup.

Headless CMS SEO Audits: Contentful, Sanity, and Strapi

2026-05-24

Headless CMS sites break SEO in the gap where content and rendering split. Webhook-driven audit patterns for Contentful, Sanity and Strapi that close it.

SEO Audit ROI: When Does Each Plan Tier Pay for Itself?

2026-05-22

Concrete break-even math for Starter, Basic, Pro and Ultra. What each plan does, the use case that justifies it, and how to tell when you have outgrown one.

Build a White-Label SEO SaaS on Top of SEO Score API

2026-05-20

A blueprint for building a reseller SEO product: auth, branded reports, client billing, recurring revenue. Real numbers from agencies running this on Ultra.

Replacing Screaming Frog with an API: A 10,000-URL Agency Workflow

2026-05-18

Screaming Frog is the default SEO crawler, and a desktop app that pegs a laptop for hours. What the same workflow looks like as an API, and what you gain.

Pre-Deploy SEO Gates: Catch Score Regressions Before You Ship

2026-05-16

Fail the PR when SEO drops more than 3 points. A complete pre-deploy gate using the compare and history endpoints, running in about 30 seconds per check.

Ecommerce SEO at Scale: Auditing 5,000 Product Pages Every Week

2026-05-14

Product catalogs break SEO in ways marketing sites don't. A weekly audit workflow for Shopify, WooCommerce, and Magento stores with thousands of SKUs.

Audit Every Page on Your Site from sitemap.xml in One Command

2026-05-12

Fetch your sitemap, batch-audit every URL, export a prioritised CSV of issues. A workflow that scales from a 50-page marketing site to a 5,000-page catalog.

What We're Seeing After 8,000 SEO Audits

2026-05-08

Aggregate patterns from thousands of anonymised audits: the same five issues on almost every site, performance rarely the problem, AI signals a blind spot.

ADA, Section 1557, and Your Practice Website: What's Actually Required in 2026

2026-05-07

An honest, non-legal-advice review of what ADA Title III and Section 1557 actually require of healthcare practice websites in 2026, and what they do not.

ADA Title III Website Lawsuits Against Law Firms: What's Actually Happening in 2026

2026-05-07

Law firm websites are a growing target for ADA Title III demand letters. The actual lawsuit pattern, what plaintiff firms cite, and what mid-sized firms can do.

ADA Website Lawsuits Against Banks and Credit Unions: A 2026 Review

2026-05-07

Community banks and credit unions are an active target for ADA Title III demand letters. The 2026 pattern, what regulators watch, and what to document now.

How to Audit a 50-Location Healthcare Website Without Losing a Month

2026-05-07

Auditing every page of every location by hand is impossible. The realistic workflow, batch scanning plus targeted review, that gets you defensible in two weeks.

Why Credit Union Websites Consistently Fail WCAG Audits (and How to Fix It)

2026-05-07

The five WCAG failures on nearly every credit union website, why CUSO and core-processor templates produce them, and the realistic path to remediation.

Preparing Your Website for an Examiner Question on Digital Access

2026-05-07

Examiners increasingly ask to see your digital accessibility monitoring program. The artifacts to prepare, the questions to expect, and what FIs usually miss.

Local SEO for Community Banks: A Technical Guide

2026-05-07

Community banks compete with megabanks on local search. The technical foundation that levels it: schema, branch pages, page experience, and megabank mistakes.

Local SEO for Medical Practices: Technical Foundations

2026-05-07

The technical SEO that decides whether your practice ranks for 'pediatrician near me': schema, page experience, location pages, and what health systems miss.

Local SEO for Personal Injury Firms: A Technical Audit Guide

2026-05-07

Personal injury law is the most competitive local SEO category outside addiction-treatment. A practical technical audit guide for the firms competing in it.

Why Multi-Location Healthcare Brands Fail Accessibility Audits

2026-05-07

Multi-location practices have a structural accessibility problem single sites do not. The pattern, the remediation strategy, and how to audit 50+ locations.

Accessibility Checklist for Online Loan Applications

2026-05-07

The accessibility patterns that matter most for online loan applications: labels, error handling, dynamic state, announcements, and what ADA complaints cite.

Accessibility Checklist for Patient Appointment Booking Forms

2026-05-07

Patient booking is the highest-stakes accessibility surface on a practice site. The WCAG criteria that matter, what plaintiff firms cite, and how to test it.

Why PDFs on Your Firm's Website Are an Accessibility Risk

2026-05-07

PDFs are the law firm Achilles heel for ADA compliance. Why they fail, what plaintiff firms cite, and realistic remediation paths for a 50-PDF practice site.

How to Respond to an ADA Website Demand Letter (and Prevent the Next One)

2026-05-07

A practical, non-legal-advice walkthrough of an ADA Title III website demand letter: what to do in the first 24 hours, the first 7 days, and the next 90 days.

Build a Live SEO Monitoring Dashboard in 100 Lines of Python

2026-05-07

A self-hosted single-file Flask dashboard that polls the SEO Score API, renders score cards with sparklines for every URL and refreshes itself. Source included.

WCAG 2.1 AA Compliance Checklist for Attorney Websites

2026-05-07

A WCAG 2.1 AA checklist specific to attorney websites, grouped by what plaintiff firms cite most, what is testable mechanically, and what needs human review.

Historical SEO Score Tracking: See What Changed, When, and Why

2026-05-05

Track every audit's score over time, get automatic deltas against the previous run, and pull a full timeseries for any URL in one call. On every paid plan.

n8n SEO Score API Node 1.3: Compare URLs and Track History Without Writing Code

2026-05-05

The n8n community node for SEO Score API now adds Compare URLs, Get History and List Tracked Domains. Three drag-and-drop workflows you can build today.

Node SDK 1.3: Run SEO Audits, Track Trends, and Get Slack Alerts from Any Node Project

2026-05-05

The seoscoreapi npm package now ships compare(), full historical timeseries and webhook alerts. Worked examples for Express, Next.js routes and a CLI.

Python SDK 1.3: Historical Trends, URL Comparisons, and Slack Alerts in Three Lines Each

2026-05-05

The seoscoreapi Python package now ships compare(), full historical timeseries, and webhook alerts on score drops. Worked examples for every new function.

Comparing Stripe, Square, and Adyen with one API call

2026-05-02

A worked example of the /compare endpoint: three payments landing pages audited side by side, with structured diff output ready to paste straight into a deck.

How to Set Up SEO Monitoring for Agency Clients (with SLA Alerts)

2026-05-01

Set up automated score monitoring for client sites, alert your team in Slack the moment a score drops, and ship quarterly SLA reports, all in under an hour.

SEO audits in Claude + Cursor: our new MCP server

2026-05-01

Install one MCP server and your AI assistant can audit URLs, look up observed backlinks and read score history directly, with no custom plumbing to maintain.

llms.txt: What It Is and How to Write It

2026-04-27

llms.txt is an emerging standard telling AI crawlers what to read on your site. How to write one, what to put in it, and why it lifts your AIO score today.

SXO, AEO, and AIO Scores Are Now in Every Audit

2026-04-21

SEO Score API now returns Search Experience (SXO), Answer Engine (AEO), and AI Optimization (AIO) scores alongside your SEO audit — on all paid plans.

ADA Compliance Checker & Website Accessibility Audit

2026-04-07

Run an ADA and WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility audit on any URL via API: an accessibility score, a lawsuit-risk assessment, and a prioritised list of fixes to make.

Competitive SEO Audit: See Exactly Why Competitors Outrank You

2026-04-06

Run a head-to-head SEO comparison against any competitor. Get a Competitive Gap score, per-check breakdown, and prioritized action items to close the gap.

SEO Quality Gates with GitHub Actions

2026-04-02

A GitHub Actions workflow that audits SEO on every pull request, posts the results as a comment, and fails the merge when scores drop below your threshold.

How to Scale an SEO Agency Without Hiring More Analysts

2026-04-02

Automate the repetitive parts of agency SEO work, auditing, reporting and monitoring, so you can take on more clients without growing headcount to match.

Why SEO Agencies Are Switching to API-First Auditing

2026-04-02

Across ~8,000 audits, the same five defects show up on ~9 of 10 sites. That makes most monthly agency audit work rediscovery — and rediscovery is automatable.

SEO Audit Checklist for New Client Onboarding

2026-04-02

A systematic 28-point SEO audit checklist for agencies onboarding new clients. Automate it with one API call instead of spending hours in manual tools.

How to White-Label SEO Reports for Your Agency Clients

2026-04-02

Generate branded SEO audit reports for clients using shareable report links, embeddable score badges, and the SEO Score API. No PDF generators needed.

Generative Engine Optimization (GEO): How to Make Your Site Visible to AI Search

2026-03-27

AI search engines cite only 2-7 domains per response. Here's how to optimize your site across 5 categories so LLMs find, understand, and recommend your content.

AI Readability Score: LLM Visibility Check

2026-03-04

A scoring system measuring how well AI systems like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and RAG pipelines can read and cite your content. How it works, how to improve it.

Claude Code SEO Skill: Audits in Your Terminal

2026-03-03

Install our Claude Code skill and run SEO audits, batch checks and score comparisons straight from your coding session, without leaving the editor. Free.

SEO Monitor API: Score Tracking with Webhooks and Slack Alerts

2026-03-01

An SEO monitor API that catches score drops before they hurt rankings. Webhook alerts to Slack or any URL when scores move 5+ points across any monitored page.

What Is a Good SEO Score? 70+ on a 0–100 Scale

2026-02-25

A good SEO score is 70+ on a 0-100 scale, with 85+ great and 90+ excellent. What each grade band actually means, and the fastest ways to raise your score.

SEO Audit API for Developers: Complete Guide

2026-02-25

Integrate SEO auditing into your apps with a single REST API call. Scored JSON output, a free tier, a GitHub Action, and Python and Node SDKs all included.

Free SEO Score Checker: Audit Any Website

2026-02-25

Check your website's SEO score for free and get a audit scored on 50+ checks across meta tags, technical SEO, performance, and accessibility in seconds.

Add SEO Checks to Your CI/CD Pipeline

2026-02-25

Prevent SEO regressions by adding automated audits to your CI/CD pipeline. GitHub Actions, GitLab CI and curl examples that fail the build when SEO breaks.

Best SEO API 2026: Affordable Alternative to Moz, Ahrefs & SEMrush

2026-02-25

Comparing SEO APIs by price and features? The best affordable pick runs 80+ checks (50+ scored on the free tier) from $0 — versus $99+/mo for Moz, Ahrefs, and SEMrush.

How to Automate SEO Reports for Clients (~40 Lines of Python)

2026-02-25

Automate client SEO reports with a free API and ~40 lines of Python: audit every page, share live report links, and get email alerts when a score drops.

Build a WordPress SEO Audit Plugin in 30 Minutes

2026-02-25

Step-by-step guide to building a WordPress plugin that shows SEO scores in the admin dashboard using the SEO Score API.

Build an AI SEO Agent: Automated Website Auditing with Python

2026-02-25

How to build an AI-powered SEO agent that audits websites, identifies the issues that matter, and recommends specific fixes, using Python and the SEO Score API.

How to Automate SEO Audits with n8n and SEO Score API

2026-02-25

A step-by-step guide to building n8n workflows that audit websites for SEO issues automatically, send alerts when scores drop, and generate client reports.