How it works

Audit, report, fix — then again, on a schedule, so problems that appear after launch don't sit there for a year.

1

The audit

We crawl your site the way a search engine does: follow your links, read your sitemap and robots.txt, then load each page in a real browser and let your JavaScript run.

2

The report

One health score out of 100, with the issues grouped by what they affect. Each one says what it is, why it matters to your business, and what it costs you to ignore.

3

The fix

Every issue comes with the fix already written. Real text for your business, ready to paste — plus where to paste it on your platform.

The part most tools skip: what Google really sees

This is the difference worth understanding, because it's where cheap checkers quietly fail.

When a search engine visits your page, it does two things. First it downloads the raw HTML your server sends. Then — and this is the step that matters — it runs the page's JavaScript, the same as a visitor's browser would, and indexes the result.

Most website checkers only do the first step. They read the raw file and grade that. It's fast and it's cheap, and on a modern website it can be completely wrong:

  • A page builder that writes your title tag after load looks perfect in raw HTML and perfect to Google — but a broken plugin in between shows up in neither.
  • An SEO plugin that sets your description client-side means the raw file has no description at all. A raw-HTML checker screams. Nothing is actually wrong.
  • A theme that swaps your <h1> for a logo image after load: raw HTML says you have a heading. You don't.

We check both, and compare them. When the raw file and the rendered page disagree, that difference is itself a finding — and it's the finding that explains why a site that "passes" every free tool still isn't showing up.

Raw HTML tells you what you published. A rendered page tells you what you're actually being judged on. You want the second one.

What's in a report

Sample figures — not a real customer's site.

82/ 100
Titles & descriptions2 issues
Crawlability & indexingclear
Mobile & speed1 issue
Structured data1 issue
Links & imagesclear
  • Every finding follows the same shape

    What it is — in a sentence, without jargon. Why it matters — what it costs you, specifically. The fix — the actual change, written out. Where it goes — the screen and field on your platform.

    And an honest estimate: how many points this is worth if you fix it, so you can start with the ones that move the number.

  • Including the things that are already right

    A report that only lists problems makes every site look broken. Passing checks are shown too, so you can see what not to touch.

Then it repeats

Websites don't stay fixed. A plugin update, a redesign, a page someone adds in a hurry — any of it can undo the work. That's the whole reason this is a monthly service and not a one-off report you file and forget.

  • Basic re-audits the whole site every month.
  • Pro re-audits every week, and watches critical things in between — if your site suddenly starts telling search engines to go away, you hear about it the same day rather than at the next audit.

Every report is compared against the last one, so you can see the score moving and see exactly what changed.

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More than Google

Most website checkers stop at Google. That made sense a few years ago. It doesn’t now — searches also happen in Bing, and increasingly inside AI assistants that answer a question rather than list ten links.

Find Me First checks that all of them can read your site: that you aren’t blocking Bing, that you aren’t blocking the AI crawlers, and that your sitemap is where both engines look for it. And when something changes, we notify Bing immediately instead of waiting to be re-crawled.

One index, many front doors

Most people think Bing doesn’t matter. Here’s what most people don’t know: Bing’s index also powers Yahoo and DuckDuckGo, and feeds AI assistants like ChatGPT.

Bing’s index  →  Bing  ·  Yahoo  ·  DuckDuckGo  ·  Ecosia  ·  AI assistants that search the web

Make sure Bing can read your site, and tell it the moment something changes, and you’re covered across all of those at once. The notification standard we use (IndexNow) tells other participating engines too.

Each of these blends its own signals with what it draws from Bing, so none is simply Bing under another name. But a site Bing cannot read tends to struggle in all of them.

What we don't promise

  • No ranking guarantees. Nobody controls Google's rankings. Anyone who guarantees you the top spot is making it up.
  • No overnight results. Google has to re-crawl your site after a fix. That takes days or weeks, not hours.
  • We don't write your content. We fix what stops Google reading your site. We can't fix a site that has nothing to say.
  • No keyword or backlink research. That's not this product. If that's what you need, our comparison pages say which tool to buy instead.

See your own score first

The free scan is the light version of exactly this: your score and your top three issues.

Scan my site free