Free SEO Audit.
See What's Holding Your Rankings Back
A free SEO audit from Rank First Digital shows exactly why a website is not ranking and what to fix first. We check indexing and crawl coverage, page speed and Core Web Vitals, on-page structure, internal links, backlink health, and how your pages compare with the competitors currently above you. You get a technical health score, the top five issues ranked by impact, a competitor gap snapshot, and a prioritized 90-day action plan you can hand to a developer or run yourself. Every audit is reviewed by a senior strategist and returned within 48 hours, with a short walkthrough call if you want one. There is no charge, no credit card, and no obligation to hire us. Read about our SEO services or browse the questions clients ask before an audit.
Four Things Land in Your Inbox
No dashboards to learn and no 40-page PDF full of filler. You get four clear outputs you can act on the same day.
Technical Health Score
One number built from crawl coverage, indexation, page speed, Core Web Vitals, and structured data, so you know where the site stands before anything else.
Top 5 Issues, Ranked by Impact
The five problems costing you the most visibility, ordered by impact rather than by how easy they are to fix, each with the pages affected and why it matters.
Competitor Gap Snapshot
A side-by-side look at the businesses currently outranking you, covering content depth, authority signals, and the gaps your site can realistically close.
Prioritized Action Plan
A sequenced 90-day roadmap your developer or content team can execute, with owners, effort estimates, and the expected outcome of each step.
What Your Audit Report Looks Like
An example of the scorecard and the ranked issue list that comes back within 48 hours.
Three Steps, Two Days, Zero Obligation
The audit is built to be fast for you and thorough for us.
Submit Your Website
Add your website address and email in the form above. Nothing else is required, and you can skip any optional access you do not want to share.
We Run the 10-Point Audit
A senior strategist checks crawl and index coverage, speed and Core Web Vitals, on-page structure, links, and the competitors above you, then scores the findings.
Get the Report in 48 Hours
You receive the written report with the ranked fixes, plus a 30-minute walkthrough call if you want one. What happens after that is entirely your call.
Built for These Six Moments
If one of these sounds like your situation, the audit will tell you where you stand.
Traffic Dropped After an Update
A core update or algorithm shift moved your pages and you need to know which losses are real.
Rankings Up, Revenue Flat
Visibility looks fine on paper, but the pages pulling clicks are not the ones that sell.
Your Team Needs Priorities
Developers and writers are busy, so you need a ranked list rather than another long audit PDF.
Redesign or Replatform Ahead
A rebuild is planned and you want the current problems fixed before they carry over to the new site.
Comparing Agencies
You are talking to several firms and want an independent read before you sign anything.
New Site, Nothing Indexing
The site launched and pages are slow to appear in search, or never appear at all.
Rank First found the indexing problem our previous agency missed for six months. We had a ranked fix list within two days and page one terms for our main services by the end of the quarter.
Frequently Asked Questions
Straight answers about what the audit includes and what happens to your details.
Is the SEO audit really free?
What information do you need from me?
Will you use my details for sales spam?
Case Studies From Live Client Sites
Each study is a client site as it runs today: what the business sells, what the site had to solve, and how search, content and social work together on the same pages.
E-Commerce and SEOFox Valley Paint
A specialty marking paint manufacturer with a wide catalog and several very different buyers. How a clear product journey, helpful content and search visibility work together for a specialty e-commerce brand.
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Web Design and SEOGEO-US
A geothermal contractor with related services and an unfamiliar technology to explain. How a clear structure and plain-language education lead to one consultation path for a technical home-services brand.
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Web Design and SEOHVRub-R-Wall
A Hudson Valley waterproofing franchise with a broad service catalog and a product that is invisible once applied. How one index keeps the catalog clear and plain answers build trust before an estimate.
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Website Design and SEOJMR Custom Homes
A photography-first homepage for a family-run Hudson Valley builder. How the services stay easy to find and the published guides answer what buyers search first.
Read the case studyarrow_forwardNotes on Search, AI Answers and Paid Media
What we are working through on live accounts, written up as it happens: how answer engines pick citations, how tracking holds up, and what we change first.
How to Rank in ChatGPT: How Answer Engines Pick What to Cite
ChatGPT has no separate ranking system to game. How answer engines pick what to cite, which crawler controls your appearance, and what to change on the page.
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Rank First Digital: From 25 Years of Mid-Hudson Web to AI Search Visibility
How a senior-led New York agency grew out of 25 years of web work, why it split from Mid-Hudson Web, and how it is built so businesses rank on Google and get named by AI.
9 min readRelated SEO Capabilities
Most audits end in one of these conversations, once you know what the report says.
Technical SEO
Engineering fixes for crawl budget, rendering, canonicals, and Core Web Vitals, measured before and after.
On-Page SEO
Keyword research, page structure, and service page copy that answers what people actually search for.
Link Building
Editorial mentions and digital PR that add authority your competitors already have.
Local SEO
Google Business Profile, citations, and location pages that win the map pack in the cities you serve.
AEO / GEO
Get cited by ChatGPT, Google AI answers, and Perplexity, the way traditional SEO wins the blue links.
Primary Sources
The documentation and public references behind the guidance on this page.
- Search Console Help: impressions, position, and clicks: How Google defines the ranking figures used in our reports.
- Rich Results Test: Google's validator for structured data markup.
- PageSpeed Insights: Free field and lab measurement of Core Web Vitals.
- Google SEO Starter Guide: Google's beginner guide to how search works.
Rather Walk Through It With a Strategist?
Send us a note or call the New York office. We will look at your site live on the call and tell you the first three things worth fixing, with no pitch deck.
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