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Professional SEO audits in the UK range from £500 for a shallow automated report to £7,500+ for enterprise-level technical audits on large ecommerce or multi-site setups. QuickFireSEO's audits start at £750 for small business sites and £1,500 for SME growth audits. All prices are fixed — no hourly billing, no scope creep. The free audits offered by many tools (Ahrefs, SEMrush, Moz) are automated scans, not professional audits — they flag every possible issue without context or prioritisation.

QuickFireSEO delivers completed audits within 5 working days of receiving Google Search Console access and the initial discovery call. Most UK agencies take 3–6 weeks. For enterprise-level audits covering 500+ page sites, allow up to 10 working days. Rush delivery within 48–72 hours is available on request and subject to availability.

Free automated audits (from tools like Ahrefs Site Audit, SEMrush Site Audit, Screaming Frog on the free tier) produce a list of every detectable issue with no context about severity, revenue impact or priority. They cannot assess content quality, E-E-A-T signals, competitor positioning, or why your traffic dropped. A professional SEO audit involves human analysis: an experienced specialist reviews the data, interprets it in the context of your specific business and market, and tells you what to fix first and why. The output is an actionable plan, not a data dump.

Yes. QuickFireSEO audits websites built on any CMS or technology stack — WordPress, Shopify, Magento, WooCommerce, Wix, Squarespace, Webflow, custom-built sites and headless setups. CMS-specific issues (Wix's URL structure limitations, Shopify's duplicate pagination problems, WordPress plugin conflicts) are called out explicitly in the audit with platform-specific remediation guidance.

Yes, and we strongly recommend it. Pre-migration audits establish a baseline of what currently ranks so that redirect mapping is comprehensive and no ranking pages are lost. Post-migration audits catch errors introduced during the rebuild — blocked URLs, changed canonical tags, missing redirects — before they cause lasting damage. Website migrations are one of the most common causes of sudden, severe ranking drops in the UK.

Usually yes. The most common causes of sudden traffic drops in Google are: a core algorithm update impacting your content quality or E-E-A-T signals; a technical change (accidental noindex tag, robots.txt update, canonical error) introduced during a site update; a Google manual action penalty; a significant loss of backlinks; or a competitor dramatically improving their SEO. A targeted traffic-drop audit reviews your Google Search Console data against algorithm update timelines, crawl changes and backlink history to identify the most likely cause and the appropriate remediation.

We recommend a full SEO audit at least twice a year — typically January and July — to catch issues that have accumulated over time and to adapt to Google algorithm updates. Additionally, an event-triggered audit is sensible before or after: a website redesign or CMS migration; a domain change; expanding into new markets or adding significant new content; or after a noticeable traffic drop or spike. Many businesses also commission an audit before engaging a new SEO agency to establish a baseline.

Both options are available. The audit report and action plan are fully self-contained — a competent developer or in-house team can implement the recommendations directly from the document. Alternatively, QuickFireSEO can implement the fixes as part of an ongoing SEO retainer or a one-off implementation project. We can discuss which approach makes most sense for your team during the Q&A call.

Yes. QuickFireSEO serves UK businesses nationwide — from London and Manchester to Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast. All audit work is conducted remotely. We work with clients across all UK regions and in any industry. For local SEO audits, we tailor our review to the specific local search landscape relevant to your target area.

We require read-only access to Google Search Console (this is the most important data source) and, ideally, read-only access to Google Analytics. We do not need FTP access, database credentials or CMS admin access for the audit itself — though providing a test login for a staging environment can be useful for rendering tests on JavaScript-heavy sites. All access is granted via Google's standard sharing mechanism and can be revoked immediately after the audit.

Yes. AI search visibility — whether your content appears in Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, ChatGPT or Gemini responses — is included as a standard pillar in all QuickFireSEO audits. We check which of your target queries now trigger AI Overviews, whether your brand is being cited as a source, and what structured data and content signals would improve your inclusion rate. This is an area most UK SEO agencies do not yet audit systematically.