“Our content is good. Why aren't we ranking?”
Technical SEO services for every system that reads your site.
Search crawlers decide whether your pages get indexed. AI assistants decide whether your business gets named in the answer. Both read the same technical foundation. I audit and repair that foundation on both fronts: crawlability, speed, structured data, and AI retrieval, verified against your own Search Console data.
FRONT ONE · CRAWL & CORE WEB VITALS
FRONT TWO · AI RETRIEVAL
“Most audits I inherit were run by a tool and printed. The tool finds the issues. Someone still has to decide which ones matter.”
The category, defined
What is an AI SEO audit?
An AI SEO audit is a technical review of how well a website can be read, retrieved, and cited by AI systems such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's AI Overviews, in addition to traditional search crawlers. It extends a standard technical SEO audit, which covers crawlability, indexation, site speed, and structured data, by testing whether AI crawlers can access the site, whether its content is structured for machine extraction, and whether the brand actually appears in AI answers for its target queries. Traditional technical SEO is the substrate: a site that AI systems cannot crawl or parse cannot be cited.
Most audits stop at Googlebot. An AI SEO audit treats assistants and answer engines as first-class consumers of your site, because for a growing share of buying questions, they are the ones doing the reading.
“Do people still buy audits?”
Audit searches are disappearing. The need for audits is not.
Search demand for SEO audits has declined sharply year over year, while the cost per click on those same terms has stayed high. That pattern means the buyers did not leave. They moved. Business owners now paste a URL into an assistant and ask what is wrong with it, and the assistant answers with names. Across the rankings my platform tracks, 16% of verified keyword positions earn impressions but zero clicks: the answer resolved the question before the click happened. An audit that only considers Googlebot is now auditing half the surface.
of tracked rankings earn impressions with zero clicks
AI answer mentions tracked across client queries
AI-referred visits in two quarters for one tracked client
Client figures anonymized. Measured by the practice's own platform.
“What does the audit actually check?”
What the work covers
Technical SEO audit
A full crawl and diagnostic of your site: indexation coverage, crawl waste, redirect chains, speed, markup validity, and AI retrievability. Findings arrive as a delivered written report with fixes prioritized by impact, not a raw tool export. Every engagement starts here.
Crawlability & indexation
Crawl budget, robots and sitemap hygiene, redirect repair, canonical logic, and index coverage. The plumbing that decides whether your pages are even eligible to rank or be cited.
Site speed & Core Web Vitals
Loading, interactivity, and stability metrics diagnosed at the code level: render-blocking scripts, oversized bundles, image delivery, and caching. Speed is a ranking input and a user-experience floor.
Structured data & entity markup
Schema that tells machines who you are, what you offer, and how your pages relate. Clean entity markup is how both search engines and AI systems resolve your business with confidence.
AI crawler & agent readiness
Access and parseability for AI crawlers and browsing agents: crawler permissions, machine-readable structure, and content built for extraction. Measured, not assumed, through the practice's own visibility platform.
Ongoing technical SEO
Technical health drifts as a site changes. Ongoing monitoring catches indexation drops, speed regressions, and markup breakage early, before they cost rankings or citations.
“Is this the right page for me?”
Where this fits
- Your organic growth has stalled and you don't know whyStart with a technical audit and get a prioritized diagnosis
- You're an agency that needs technical fulfillmentWhite-label technical SEO lives on the agency page
- You want the measurement layer itselfAnsidex is the platform that tracks rankings and AI answers
- You're here for the AI visibility methodologyTechnical SEO is the substrate; GEO is the parent discipline
- Your authority is the bottleneck, not your siteLink building and AI citation work lives on the backlinks page
- You're a local businessLocal audit and map-pack work lives on the local SEO page
- You want to see the outcome, not the methodCase study: twenty-six net-new pages to 229,182 impressions
“Does the data hold up?”
Measured, not promised
Every recommendation traces to something measurable. Rankings and impressions verify against your own Search Console data, and AI answer presence is tracked per query, per engine, by the practice's own platform. The figures above are from live client work, anonymized. No screenshots of someone else's case study.
“This site is audited by the standard I sell. The scores above are its own, not a vendor's demo.”
“Straight answers”
Technical SEO, answered
What do technical SEO services include?
Technical SEO services cover the infrastructure that makes content findable: crawlability and indexation, site architecture and redirects, page speed and Core Web Vitals, structured data, and readiness for AI crawlers and agents. The work starts with an audit and continues as ongoing maintenance, because technical health degrades as a site changes.
What does a technical SEO audit cover, and what do I receive?
The audit crawls your site and diagnoses indexation coverage, crawl budget waste, redirect chains, speed and Core Web Vitals, structured data validity, and AI retrievability. You receive a delivered written report with findings prioritized by impact and verified against your own Search Console data, so every recommendation traces to something measurable.
What is the difference between technical SEO and on-page SEO?
On-page SEO shapes the content itself: titles, headings, copy, and internal links. Technical SEO shapes the systems that deliver that content: crawling, rendering, indexing, speed, and markup. They depend on each other. Strong content on a site that cannot be crawled or parsed will not rank, and it will not be cited.
What is an AI SEO audit?
An AI SEO audit reviews how well AI systems can access, parse, and cite your website. It checks AI crawler access, machine-readable structure, and whether your brand appears in AI answers for the queries that matter to you. It is an extension of a technical SEO audit, not a replacement for one.
How much do technical SEO services cost?
Pricing depends on site size and scope. Engagement tiers and what each includes are listed on the pricing page, and the audit is the standard starting point for any engagement.
How often should a website be audited?
A full audit at the start of an engagement, then focused re-audits after major changes: a redesign, a migration, a platform change, or a significant content expansion. Between those, ongoing monitoring catches regressions early, because technical health drifts even when nobody touches the site.
Start with the audit.
One crawl, two fronts, a delivered report with fixes in priority order. If your site has a technical ceiling, this is how you find it.