SEO Recovery

The SEO recovery audit that diagnoses the drop and hands you the plan.

The emergency room for your search traffic. AlmaSEO reads ninety days of your Search Console data through four analysis engines, tells you exactly what broke and how bad it is, then builds the recovery plan and the client email — whether it’s a quiet traffic drop, a Google penalty, or an algorithm update.

You don’t need more data. You need a diagnosis.

Search Console already knows what happened to your traffic. So does Analytics. So does the crawler that flagged your Core Web Vitals last month. The data has never been the missing piece.

What’s missing is the part that costs you a weekend: reading five dashboards, working out which of the forty things that changed is the one that actually cost you the rankings, then turning that into something a client will read and approve. Most tools stop at the chart. The judgment is left to you, every time, from scratch.

AlmaSEO’s SEO recovery audit pulls ninety days of live Search Console data, runs it through four analysis engines at once, and comes back with a ranked diagnosis, a phased recovery plan with a budget range, and the client email that explains it. It starts in the same place whichever way the traffic went — a traffic drop with no obvious cause, a Google penalty that pulled you from the index, or an algorithm update that reshuffled the results underneath you.

Built for the agency on the hook — and the owner whose traffic it is.

An SEO audit tool for agencies, and just as useful to the person staring at a chart that’s pointing down.

For the business owner

Nothing seems to be working.

Your rankings dropped. The calls thinned out. Something is off, and every tool you’ve opened has handed you another chart instead of an answer. You don’t need more charts. You need someone to tell you what broke, and what to do about it on Monday morning.

  • Why the site isn’t showing up, in plain language
  • What it will cost to fix, and how long it takes
  • Whether the money you’re already spending is working

For the SEO freelancer or agency

Your client is getting restless.

The phone isn’t ringing and they want to know why — on today’s call, not next week. You need the diagnosis, the plan, and the email that explains both, before you dial. Not a weekend spent stitching five dashboards into a story.

  • Audit every client site from one place
  • A phased plan with a budget range, generated from the audit
  • The before-and-after comparison that proves the retainer

It’s the difference between knowing you have an SEO problem and knowing exactly what it is, how bad it is, what to do about it, and whether the fix is working.

One audit becomes a diagnosis, a plan, and the client email.

Most SEO tools give you data. AlmaSEO gives you a workflow.

  1. Scope

    Name your services, your service area, and the searches to ignore — and if you’re not sure what to exclude, AlmaSEO suggests the terms.

  2. Audit

    Ninety days of Search Console data, pulled live and filtered to what matters.

  3. Diagnose

    Four engines run at once and return a health score, ranked issues, and the findings that explain them.

  4. Plan

    A three-phase recovery plan with a budget range, built from your own audit.

  5. Communicate

    The client email or proposal, written from the audit in the tone you choose.

  6. Track

    Save it, re-run it later, and compare — the deltas are calculated for you.

Only Search Console is required. Connect Analytics, your Business Profile and your citation data too, and each one adds depth — but nothing breaks without it. The audit runs on your plan’s monthly allowance; the one thing that spends Data Credits is the optional live SERP scan, and cached results are free.

Four engines, each hunting a different way traffic breaks.

They run at the same time, on the same audit.

Page-level intelligence

Where the traffic actually went.

  • Traffic drops, flagged by severity — a slow bleed reads differently than a cliff
  • Quick wins: page-2 keywords with real impressions behind them
  • CTR gaps: you rank, nobody clicks, your title tag is the problem
  • Content decay and keyword cannibalization

Technical health

Whether the site can be read at all.

  • Core Web Vitals from real Chrome field data, not just a lab score
  • Schema markup: does Google understand your business and services
  • AI crawler access: whether you’re blocking the bots behind AI answers
  • Whether an llms.txt exists at all

SERP intelligence

What the results page is doing this week.

  • Seven-day ranking-regression alerts — early warning before a slip becomes a drop
  • An optional live scan for AI Overviews, Featured Snippets and People-Also-Ask
  • AI-answer exposure: the boxes taking the click even at position one

Post-click analysis

What happens after the click.

  • Landing-page health — the pages that convert, and the dead ends
  • Tracking gaps: traffic arrives, but nothing is measured
  • An organic overview with period-over-period deltas

Then AlmaSEO layers more on top: dead-zone keywords ranking 15–70 that Google knows about but won’t commit to, your brand vs. non-brand split, a service-area breakdown, a Business Profile audit, and a name-address-phone consistency check across your directories. Only the live SERP scan above is opt-in and spends Data Credits — everything else here is free.

Six screens: the diagnosis, the plan, the proof, and the client email.

Each one built for a different job. Open any for the detail.

Dashboard

Your command center. A single health score, the issues found broken down by severity, the opportunity count, a local score, and a written executive summary of the big picture in plain language.

See what’s inside dashboard
  • Health score — one number for how the site is doing overall
  • Issues found, split into critical, warning, and informational
  • Opportunity count, plus a local score built from your name-address-phone consistency
  • Key findings, ordered by impact rather than by category
  • Sections appear only when there’s something to say — a clean audit doesn’t pad itself out
The SEO Recovery dashboard: an SEO health score of 67, five issues found split into two critical and three warning, four opportunities, an 82% local SEO score, and a written executive summary above a prioritized list of key findings
The health score, issue counts, and executive summary.

Audit results

The deep dive. Every finding the engines produced, organized so you can go straight to the part you’re arguing about — service lines, brand versus non-brand, dead-zone keywords, technical health.

See what’s inside audit results
  • Business identity consistency across directories, when a scan has been run
  • Service-line performance: keywords grouped by what you sell, so you can see which lines are invisible
  • Brand vs. non-brand — heavy brand reliance means you aren’t winning new customers
  • Dead-zone keywords ranking 15–70, which Google knows about but won’t commit to
  • Top performers, so you know what to protect
  • Page-level, technical, SERP, and post-click findings, each with the specific pages attached
SEO audit results: NAP identity conflicts across Avvo, FindLaw, Yelp, Justia and Yellow Pages with match scores, performance broken out by practice area, a brand versus non-brand traffic split, and a dead-zone keyword table showing the clicks each could win
Findings grouped by service line, keyword class, and technical health.

Recovery plan

Where analysis becomes action. Choose an approach — hybrid, SEO only, paid only, or maintenance — and get a three-phase plan built from your own audit results, with a budget range and a timeline.

See what’s inside recovery plan
  • Phase 1, months 1–3: the fires. Technical fixes, quick wins, critical ranking recoveries
  • Phase 2, months 4–6: build and grow. Content, links, new service areas
  • Phase 3, months 7–12: scale. Authority, competitive displacement, market expansion
  • Four plan types — hybrid, SEO only, paid only, or maintenance
  • A recommended budget range and timeline, so the investment conversation has a number in it
A generated recovery plan: plan type set to hybrid for a legal-services client, a written analysis summary explaining the cannibalization and NAP problems, then Phase 1 immediate actions and Phase 2 build-and-grow tasks, each with a week or month it lands in
Three phases, each with a budget range and expected timeline.

Audit history

Every audit is kept. Compare any two side by side and the deltas are calculated for you — clicks up twelve percent, CTR up eight tenths, three fewer critical issues. This is how you prove the work.

See what’s inside audit history
  • View any past audit in full
  • Compare two audits side by side to see exactly what improved and what declined
  • Deltas and a progress score, calculated automatically
  • Run one before you start and one ninety days later, and the comparison tells the story
The audit history tab: a table of previous audits dated 7/7/2026 and 6/9/2026 with clicks, impressions, CTR, average position and issue count for each, and buttons to view either audit in full or compare the two side by side
Two audits compared, with the deltas calculated.

Client communications

Built for agencies. AlmaSEO writes the email from the audit data — first contact, strategy options, progress update, monthly report, or a formal proposal — in a tone you choose.

See what’s inside client communications
  • Five templates: initial analysis, strategy options, progress update, monthly report, proposal
  • Three tones — professional, casual, or direct — so the voice matches the relationship
  • Progress reports pull the before-and-after comparison in automatically
  • Copy to clipboard, download as PDF, or send by email — and every message is logged
The client communications tab: a template selector set to Initial Analysis Email and a tone selector set to Professional, above a generated email previewing the audit's performance snapshot, key issues, biggest opportunity and next steps, with copy, PDF and save buttons and a log of past messages
A generated client email, with template and tone selectors.

Reminders

SEO isn’t a one-time fix. Schedule the re-audit, the follow-up, the check on whether last month’s fix held — and AlmaSEO emails you before it slips.

See what’s inside reminders
  • Quick-set follow-ups at one week, two weeks, one month, or three months
  • Four reminder types: follow-up, check-in, re-audit due, and milestone review
  • Email notifications, plus a single daily digest of what’s coming up
  • Export reminders and plan milestones as iCal, straight into Google, Outlook, or Apple Calendar
The reminders tab: an add-reminder form with quick-set buttons for one week, two weeks, one month and three months, above a list of follow-ups, check-ins, milestones and a re-audit due date — one overdue, one due today, the rest pending or done — and an email notification setting
Follow-ups you set, with email notifications and calendar export.

Find out what broke.

Point AlmaSEO at a site and get the diagnosis, the plan, and the client email — from one audit.