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Free SEO Audit

Get a free SEO audit of your website.

We provide a free SEO audit that shows you exactly where you rank today, what is holding you back, and which competitors are taking the customers you should be getting.

Read this first

This is probably why your traffic looks flat.

Before you audit anything, it helps to know the baseline everyone is working against. Your audit measures your site against these conditions, not against 2019.

68%
of US Google searches end without a click
68.01% from January to April 2026, up from 60.45% in 2024
276
clicks per 1,000 searches reach the open web
Down from 374 per 1,000 in the 2024 study
60%
fewer clicks when an AI Overview appears
AI Overviews now run on more than 20% of searches
23%
fewer clicks than two years ago
Clicks fell 9.51 points from 2024 to 2026

Where search actually happens

  • 80% Traditional search engines
  • 10% Commerce sites
  • 5.5% Social networks
  • 3.2% AI tools
  • 1.3% Everything else

We show you where you are already being seen without being clicked, and what that visibility is currently worth to you.

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Sources: SparkToro and Similarweb, June 2026, and SparkToro and Datos, March 2026. Figures current as of August 2026. Full breakdown and method.

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Tell us about your business and we will get back to you with your findings.

What happens next

Here is how it works.

1

You send the details

Your site, your market, and what you want to fix. Takes two minutes.

2

We audit your visibility

Rankings, technical health, map pack presence, AI answer citations, and your closest competitors.

3

We walk you through it

What is broken, what is winnable, and what we would do first. In plain English.

4

You decide

Work with us or take the findings and run with them. No obligation either way.

What we check

Everything that decides whether Chicago finds you.

Rankings

Where you rank now

  • Core Chicago keyword positions
  • Neighborhood and suburb visibility
  • Competitor gap analysis
  • What is winnable fastest
Technical

What is broken

  • Crawl, index, and rendering issues
  • Core Web Vitals and speed
  • Schema and structured data
  • Mobile experience
Local

Map pack presence

  • Google Business Profile health
  • Citations and NAP consistency
  • Reviews and prominence
  • Near me ranking
AI

AI answer visibility

  • AI Overviews and snippets
  • Whether assistants cite you
  • Entity and citation signals
  • AEO and GEO readiness
Questions

The audit, answered.

What to expect before you ask.

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What is included in the free SEO audit?
We review how your site is indexed and crawled, your technical health and speed, how you currently rank for your core Chicago keywords, your Google Business Profile and map pack visibility, whether AI answer engines cite you, and where your closest competitors are beating you. You get a clear read on what is holding you back and what to fix first.
How much does the audit cost?
Nothing. The audit is free and comes with no obligation. If you want us to do the work afterward, our SEO packages start at $399 per month and websites start at $499 one time, but there is no requirement to continue.
What do you need from me?
Your website address and a short description of what you do and where you serve. If you are comfortable sharing read access to Google Search Console and your Google Business Profile, the audit gets considerably more precise, but it is not required to get started.
Is this a real audit or an automated report?
A person reviews your site. Automated tools help us gather data quickly, but the findings, priorities, and recommendations are put together for your specific business and your specific Chicago market.
What happens after the audit?
We walk you through what we found and what we would do about it, in order of impact. If it makes sense to work together we will tell you what that looks like and what it costs. If it does not, we will tell you that too.
Will the audit explain why my traffic dropped?
It will separate the two causes. Some declines are site specific, from technical issues, cannibalization, or lost rankings. Some are structural, from the shift to zero-click results that has taken US Google searches ending without a click from 60.45% in 2024 to 68.01% in 2026. The audit tells you which one you are looking at, and what is actually recoverable.
In one line

Free Chicago SEO audit that covers a website's rankings, technical health, Google Business Profile, map pack visibility, and whether AI answer engines cite it.

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See where you really stand.

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A clear read on your visibility, with no obligation.