SEO audit consultant
A full SEO audit decides where the money goes: what the site really does in Google, what the top 3 competitors do, ranked by impact and cost. Rate for an SEO audit consultant: from €800 per day excl. VAT, first 30-minute consultation at €50, first results within three months: agency comparison, rates, method and FAQ below.
1. SEO audit consultant or SEO audit agency: the comparison
Describe your need, the AI suggests 3 providers
Example: Shopify store in London, tight budget, need link building.
2. Client reviews of my work as an SEO audit consultant
Excellent, based on 8 recommendations from clients and partners. Founders and managers I have worked with: measured results, a method that is explained and kept.
Alban joined to push SEO R&D on niches everyone fights for. Within months he industrialised what others still do by hand.
- Large-scale automation of domain and site creation
- Automated link building and worldwide multi-language competitive monitoring
- Repetitive team tasks replaced with AI pipelines
Alban is the peer I call when a project goes off the beaten track: saturated market, large-scale link building, automation. He puts numbers on things before acting and says plainly when an idea is not worth its cost.
- Consultant-to-consultant exchanges on competitive projects
- Shared link-building and automation methods
- Quantified recommendations, no empty promises
Alban took the French market in hand end to end. He built his team, launched a parasite SEO department from scratch and kept results climbing against competitors with far bigger budgets.
- French market run end to end, team grown from 8 to 20
- Parasite SEO department launched from scratch
- Monthly buyers multiplied by four in eighteen months
An SEO who speaks the developers’ language. Alban specifies, tests and measures: his processes plug straight into our stack.
- Documented scripts and pipelines, integrated into our tools
- Every experiment measured before being generalised
- Autonomous with Python, APIs and infrastructure
Alban took over organic acquisition for both our products, a course platform and a sports events app. He puts a figure on what he suggests and explains his trade-offs before anything is launched.
- Site architecture and landing pages reworked on the SaaS side
- Pages generated from our event data, sport by sport and city by city
- Priorities reviewed every month, with rank tracking to back it up
Our market is regulated: you cannot write anything you like about a health product. Alban found the angles that clear the regulatory bar and still bring buyers, not just readers.
- Product and category pages reworked for search
- Content kept inside the regulatory frame, with no health claims
- Long tail worked through range by range
My brunch site was ranking for nothing. Alban targeted searches by city and by type of venue, and weekend visits finally come from Google.
- Structured pages by city and by neighbourhood
- Venue pages optimised for local search
- A publishing schedule that holds, with no wasted production
Alban took over my website and made me visible on coaching searches in my area. Enquiries now come in every week through Google.
- WordPress site taken over and sped up
- Ranked on local coaching searches
- Business profile optimised and review flow in place
SEO audit consultant: contents
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3. The essentials in 30 seconds
Five pointers to see in 30 seconds whether your SEO audit consultant fits your needs, before you read the details:
Full page: 10 min read
- Goal: what Google sees of your site against the top 3
- Method: crawl, logs, rankings, competitor links
- Deliverable: action plan ranked by impact and cost, live debrief
- Rates: on quote, base €800 per day excl. VAT
- Timeline: audit delivered in 10 to 15 days
4. SEO audit consultant rates
Three formats, one base rate: the consultation to decide, the audit to plan, the retainer to execute:
| 🧰 Service | ▪️ Rate | 📦 What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Consultation | €50 · 30 min on video | A straight opinion on feasibility, cost and timeline. |
| Audit | On quote, base €800 per day excl. VAT | Action plan ranked by impact and cost, delivered in 10 to 15 days. |
| Retainer | From €1,200 per month excl. VAT | Quarterly commitment, weekly video check-in, shared dashboard. |
5. How much a SEO audit consultant can earn you for your budget
Six questions on your business, your traffic and your budget to estimate the return on organic search, which the audit then refines with your data:
6. What an SEO audit consultant actually changes on a site
I ran six and seven figure site analyses for acquisitions at North Star Network. As an SEO audit expert: priority sheet, five page summary, live debrief, budget scenarios:
1. For whom
- Sites that stall while production keeps going.
- Buyers who want to know what they are acquiring.
- Executives who must arbitrate an SEO budget.
- In-house teams looking for an outside read on their plan.
2. Deliverables
- Priority sheet: item, effort, expected gain, owner.
- Five page summary readable by non-technical leadership.
- One hour live debrief, questions included.
- Three budget scenarios for the next twelve months.
7. What the audit examines, according to an SEO audit consultant
The SEO audit examines six areas, each with a costed effort estimate: full crawl (Google’s robot visiting the site), log analysis, performance, keyword mapping and link profile:
1. Full crawl
2. Log analysis
3. Performance
4. Keyword mapping
5. Link profile
6. Action plan
8. How an SEO audit consultant works, step by step
an SEO audit consultant takes fifteen days from first access to live debrief: scoping, diagnosis, execution and consolidation:
Scoping
Diagnosis
Execution
Consolidation
9. What an SEO audit consultant finds on almost every project
What an SEO audit consultant finds on almost every project: four points most expensive to put right, each with symptom and fix:
1. Unprioritised audit
- ⚠️ Symptom: report delivered, no ticket opened three months later
- 🛠️ Fix: every finding carries an estimated impact and a cost
2. Score as diagnosis
- ⚠️ Symptom: fixes made at the whim of the score
- 🛠️ Fix: human review, cross-checked against the logs (server record of every visit) and the business
3. No traffic data
- ⚠️ Symptom: generic findings that would fit any site
- 🛠️ Fix: access to Search Console (Google’s free tool to monitor a site), analytics and server logs
4. No follow-up
- ⚠️ Symptom: the report was opened only once
- 🛠️ Fix: three-month plan, with owners and milestones
10. What an SEO audit consultant delivers
What an SEO audit expert delivers, deliverable by deliverable: prioritised action plan, crawl report, log analysis, link gap, walkthrough session:
| 📦 Deliverable | 🧰 Format | ▪️ What it is for |
|---|---|---|
| Prioritised action plan | shared spreadsheet | deciding what to do, and in what order |
| Crawl report | annotated export | seeing what Google really crawls |
| Log analysis | visual summary | measuring wasted crawl budget |
| Link gap | competitor comparison | costing the link building budget you need |
| Walkthrough session | recorded video call | so the team understands, not just reads |
Got an SEO project in mind?
First 30-min consultation: €50.
11. How long results take, according to an SEO audit consultant?
SEO audit results, adjusted to the site’s maturity: 2 to 8 weeks for technical fixes, 2 to 4 months for architecture, 4 to 9 for link building (getting links from other websites):
What it depends on
- 2 to 8 weeksTechnical fixes
developer responsiveness
- 3 to 6 monthsContent overhaul
number of pages to review
- 2 to 4 monthsArchitecture
site size and redirects (automatic forwarding from an old address to a new one)
- 4 to 9 monthsLink building
link gap to close
12. The workstreams next, according to an SEO audit consultant
Neighbouring workstreams turn an SEO audit into a complete plan, one page per workstream with its method and deliverables.
13. 5 situations to test your instincts with an SEO audit consultant
Five real cases, each corrected and explained by your SEO audit consultant, to test your instincts before starting a project:
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1/5 A tool gives your site 62/100 and 40 alerts. Should you fix everything in order?
A tool lists, it does not arbitrate: human review, cross-checked with the logs, sets the priorities. Learn more
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2/5 Should the audit consultant get access to Search Console and your server logs?
Without that data, pages crawled but never clicked stay invisible: the audit is guesswork. Learn more
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3/5 Audit delivered three months ago, not a single fix launched. What did it lack?
Without an implementation plan, the audit ends up in a drive: owners and milestones create action. Learn more
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4/5 Technical fixes went live a week ago and nothing has moved. Is that normal?
Technical fixes take effect in 2 to 8 weeks, architecture work in 2 to 4 months. Learn more
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5/5 A free online SEO audit flags dozens of issues on your site. Is it worth anything?
It lists symptoms without ever saying which one deserves your budget: that is not an audit. Learn more
14. SEO audit consultant FAQ
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What do I receive in an SEO audit?
A prioritised sheet plus a 5 page summary, and a one hour live debrief. On any SEO audit project, this is what separates pages that climb from pages that stall.
How long does it take for an SEO audit?
10 to 15 days depending on site size and log access. Each step is dated in the plan handed over at the start, with its deliverables. The schedule then adapts to your own internal constraints.
What access do you need in an SEO audit?
Search Console and server logs ideally. Without logs the audit still helps, but with less precision. I build it into the action plan from the start, with its expected impact.
Is a free SEO audit worth anything?
No, it is a tool report, not an audit. It lists symptoms without ever saying which one deserves your budget. I confirm it on your site during the initial audit, with data to back it up.
How long does a full SEO audit take?
Two to three weeks, depending on the size of the site. Most of the time goes into the logs and the competition, not the crawl. The exact timing depends on your starting point, which I assess first.
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