8 steps

How We Audit a Miami Website

Every audit follows the same eight steps, from understanding your goals to a prioritized roadmap. The process is built for Miami realities: bilingual customers, dense local competition and a growing share of searches answered by AI.

01

Discovery & Goals

We start by learning what the business sells, where it serves customers and which results actually matter.

An audit is only useful if it measures the right things. Before crawling a single page, we confirm the services that drive revenue, the areas you serve across Miami-Dade and the languages your customers use.

  • Primary conversions: calls, form leads, bookings, store visits or online sales.
  • Priority services and neighborhoods, for example Brickell and Downtown for a law firm, or Doral and Kendall for a logistics or trades business.
  • Known seasonality, such as tourist season, Art Basel week or hurricane season.
  • Main business goals and conversion types
  • Priority services and revenue drivers
  • Service areas and physical locations
  • Customer languages (English, Spanish, other)
  • Main competitors named by the business
  • Access available: Search Console, analytics, Google Business Profile
  • Past SEO work, migrations or penalties
  • Seasonal peaks relevant to the business
02

Technical Crawl

We crawl the site like a search engine to find issues that block discovery, indexing or a good user experience.

Technical problems quietly cap everything else. We run a full crawl, compare it with the XML sitemap and, when access is available, with Search Console indexing data.

  • Indexability: status codes, noindex tags, canonicals and robots.txt rules.
  • Architecture: crawl depth, orphan pages and internal link flow.
  • Performance: Core Web Vitals on mobile, where most local searches happen.
  • HTTP status codes, broken links and redirect chains
  • robots.txt rules and meta robots directives
  • Canonical tags and duplicate URLs
  • XML sitemap accuracy versus crawled pages
  • Indexed versus submitted pages in Search Console
  • Core Web Vitals: LCP, INP and CLS on mobile
  • HTTPS, mixed content and mobile rendering
  • Title tags, meta descriptions and heading structure
  • Structured data validity
  • Crawl depth and orphan pages
03

Local Signals (GBP, NAP, Citations)

We review how the business appears in Google Maps and local directories, where many Miami customers make their choice.

For businesses serving local customers, the map results often matter more than the organic ones. We audit the Google Business Profile, check name, address and phone consistency, and compare your local presence with competitors in the same area.

  • Profile completeness, categories, services and photos.
  • Review volume, recency, ratings and owner responses.
  • Local pack visibility from several points across the areas you serve.
  • Google Business Profile ownership and verification
  • Primary and secondary categories
  • Hours, holiday hours and service areas
  • NAP consistency across website and listings
  • Major directory and industry citations
  • Duplicate or outdated listings
  • Review count, recency, rating and response rate
  • LocalBusiness schema on the website
  • Local pack rankings from multiple Miami locations
04

Bilingual & Hreflang Review

We check that English and Spanish pages are both findable, correctly connected and written for real searchers.

Miami is one of the most bilingual markets in the US, but many sites treat Spanish as an afterthought. We look at whether Spanish pages exist for key services, whether search engines can tell the versions apart and whether the Spanish copy reads naturally.

  • Hreflang implementation, including reciprocal tags and x-default.
  • URL structure for language versions and language switcher behavior.
  • Spanish keyword demand versus what the site actually targets.
  • Spanish coverage of priority service pages
  • Hreflang tags: language codes, return links, x-default
  • Self-referencing canonicals on each language version
  • Language URL structure (folder, subdomain or parameter)
  • Language switcher linking to the equivalent page
  • Quality of Spanish copy versus machine translation
  • Translated titles, meta descriptions and alt text
  • Spanish keyword research for core services
05

Content & Intent Gap

We compare the questions your customers search for with the pages you have, and find what is missing or weak.

Rankings follow relevance. We map target keywords to existing pages, check that each page matches search intent, and identify topics competitors cover that you do not.

  • Keyword-to-page mapping and cannibalization.
  • Thin, outdated or duplicate pages, including templated neighborhood pages.
  • Trust signals for sensitive industries such as health, law and finance.
  • Keyword-to-page mapping for priority services
  • Search intent match for each key page
  • Keyword cannibalization between pages
  • Thin or near-duplicate pages
  • Missing service, location and FAQ pages
  • Competitor topic coverage
  • E-E-A-T signals: authorship, credentials, contact details
  • Content freshness and outdated information
  • Internal links between related pages
07

AI Search Visibility

We check how AI tools such as Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity describe and cite your business.

A growing share of research happens inside AI answers. We run a set of realistic prompts in English and Spanish, record which businesses and pages get mentioned or cited, and review the signals that influence those answers.

  • Whether your brand is mentioned, cited or missing for key questions.
  • How accurately AI tools describe your services and location.
  • Entity signals, structured data and crawler access for AI bots.
  • Brand mentions for priority prompts in English and Spanish
  • Pages cited in Google AI Overviews for target queries
  • Citations in ChatGPT search and Perplexity answers
  • Accuracy of AI descriptions of the business
  • Competitors cited instead of you
  • robots.txt rules for AI crawlers
  • Organization and LocalBusiness structured data
  • Quotable, clearly structured answer content
08

Reporting & Roadmap

We turn findings into a prioritized action plan ranked by expected impact and effort.

A long list of issues is not a plan. We group findings by area, explain why each one matters in plain language and rank fixes so you know what to do first.

  • Quick wins that can be fixed in days.
  • Medium-term projects such as Spanish page builds or content clusters.
  • Ongoing work such as reviews, links and AI visibility tracking.
  • Executive summary in plain language
  • Findings grouped by area with severity
  • Impact and effort rating for each fix
  • Prioritized 30/60/90-day roadmap
  • Baseline metrics for tracking progress
  • Clear owner for each task (your team or ours)

Deliverable

What you receive in 24 hours

The free audit is delivered within 24 hours as a written report you can keep and act on, with or without us. There is no commitment and no lock-in contract.

  • A summary of the most important issues and opportunities.
  • Technical findings: indexing, crawl errors, speed and mobile issues.
  • A local visibility review of your Google Business Profile, NAP consistency and citations.
  • A bilingual check of your English and Spanish pages and hreflang setup.
  • Content and keyword gaps compared with competitors.
  • A snapshot of your backlink profile.
  • An initial look at how AI search tools mention your business.
  • A prioritized list of next steps.

Frequently asked questions

How long does the free audit take?

The free audit report is delivered within 24 hours of your request. A deeper audit for large or complex sites, such as big ecommerce catalogs, may take longer, and we will tell you upfront.

Do you need access to my accounts?

No access is required for the free audit, which uses public data and a crawl of your site. Read-only access to Google Search Console, analytics and your Google Business Profile makes the findings more precise, but it is optional.

Will the audit change anything on my website?

No. The audit is read-only. We crawl your pages the same way a search engine does and do not modify your site, listings or accounts.

Why do you check both English and Spanish?

Many Miami customers search in Spanish, and search engines and AI tools can return different businesses depending on the language. Checking both shows whether you are missing part of your market.

What happens after I receive the report?

You can implement the recommendations yourself, share them with your developer or ask us to help. There is no obligation and no long-term contract.

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