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SEO Audits for South African Businesses

Find out exactly what is holding your website back on Google. We audit by hand, explain every finding in plain English and give you a fix list ordered by impact.

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Why book an audit?

Most South African service businesses only look at their website when something goes wrong: the phone goes quiet, a competitor appears above them on Google.co.za, or a new site launches and the enquiries stop. By then the problem has usually been costing money for months.

An audit shows you what is really happening. It tells you which problems matter, which can wait and what to fix first, whether you are planning a new website, recovering lost traffic or checking that your SEO is working.

Audits we run

Full SEO audit

Everything in one review: Search Console data, technical health, indexing, content, links, your Google Business Profile and tracking. The right starting point if you have never had an audit.

Technical SEO audit

A full crawl of your site to find what stops Google reading it properly: broken links, redirect chains, rendering problems, duplicate pages and slow templates.

Traffic and ranking loss audit

For sites that have lost visibility after a Google update, a new website or a hack. We find the cause first, then plan the recovery.

Website migration audit

Before or after a move from .com to .co.za, a rebrand or a new platform. We check that every old URL redirects properly so rankings move with you.

Page indexing audit

For pages that will not appear in Google or keep dropping out. We work through the Search Console Pages report and fix each reason in turn.

Content and link audit

Whether your pages are good enough to rank and whether the sites linking to you help or hurt. Worth doing before you spend more on content or link building.

Lost traffic? See ranking recovery

What a full SEO audit covers

Search Console analysis
We split your data by brand and non-brand searches, by section of the site and by country, to see what is growing, what is falling and whether the change is in South Africa or overseas.
Technical SEO
Crawling, rendering, canonical tags, robots.txt, redirects, structured data and site speed, including how pages load on South African mobile networks.
Indexing
Which pages Google has left out of its results and why, from noindex tags and thin content to weak internal links.
Content
Quality, duplication, gaps against the businesses that outrank you, and trust signals. This matters most for attorneys, financial services providers and medical practices, where Google expects more proof of expertise.
Links
The quality of the sites linking to you, any spam or paid links that put you at risk, and the gap between your links and those of your South African competitors.
Local and tracking
Your Google Business Profile, whether your name, address and phone number match across South African directories, and whether GA4 records calls, forms and WhatsApp enquiries correctly behind a POPIA consent banner.

How the audit works

Free 30-minute call
Tell us what is worrying you: lost traffic, a planned new website, rankings that have stalled, or a general health check.
Quote and timeline
We quote based on the size of your website and give you a delivery date. There are no fixed packages.
Brief and access
You tell us your priorities and grant delegated access to Search Console, GA4 and your Google Business Profile. The accounts stay in your name, and we can sign an NDA if you need one.
The audit
We work through the site by hand rather than exporting a tool report. If we find something urgent, such as pages blocked from Google, we tell you straight away rather than waiting for the report.
Report and walkthrough
You receive a written report with every issue, the evidence and a fix list ordered by impact, followed by a call to go through it. We can then help your team implement the fixes or do the work ourselves.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is an SEO audit?

A detailed check of everything that affects how your website performs on Google: technical health, indexing, content, links and tracking. It ends with a prioritised list of what to fix.

Why does my business need an SEO audit?

Because most ranking problems are invisible from the front of a website. An audit finds them before they cost you enquiries, and before you spend money on new content or links that cannot perform until the basics are fixed.

How much does an SEO audit cost in South Africa?

It depends on how big your website is. A small service business site takes far less time to audit than a large site with hundreds of pages, so we quote for each one.

How long does an SEO audit take?

That also depends on size. You get a delivery date with your quote, and anything urgent is flagged as soon as we find it.

Do you offer free SEO audits?

We offer a free 30-minute call where we look at your site with you and point out what stands out. A full audit is paid work, because it is done by hand. Free automated reports list hundreds of warnings without telling you which ones matter.

What do we receive at the end?

A written report with every issue, why it matters and how to fix it, ordered by impact, plus a call to go through it. You keep the report whether or not you work with us afterwards.

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Find out what is holding your site back

Book a free 30-minute call and we will look at your website with you.