The SAGE Audit: Is Your Site Invisible to AI Search?

Before AI can cite you, search engines must trust you. We crawl your entire site to uncover broken links, missing or malformed schema markup (Organization, LocalBusiness, FAQ, Article), crawl budget waste, slow Core Web Vitals, indexation gaps, and mobile rendering failures. Every technical fault is a leak in your visibility pipeline — we find and catalog every one, ranked by severity. This layer also covers internal linking architecture, canonical tag strategy, XML sitemap integrity, and robots.txt configuration to ensure search bots reach your highest-value pages first.

Answer Engine Optimization is about being the snippet that Google, Siri, and Alexa read aloud. We audit your content against question-answer patterns: are your headings phrased as the questions your customers actually ask? Do you lead with a direct, bolded answer before elaborating? Is FAQ and HowTo schema in place — which alone makes pages 78% more likely to be cited by AI? We score every page on answer-readiness and show you exactly what to restructure, including target question clusters, answer-format gaps, and missing schema types.

Generative Engine Optimization is the new frontier. ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews cite sources differently than Google ranks pages — and ~90% of pages cited by ChatGPT rank outside the top 20 in traditional search. We run synthetic queries across every major AI engine to see where your brand appears, where it does not, and what your competitors are doing to occupy that space. We check freshness signals (95% of AI citations favor content under 10 months old), brand entity consistency across the web, third-party mention analysis on the sources LLMs trust most (Reddit, Quora, Wikipedia, industry publications), and whether your content is structured for machine extraction.

88% of users never return after a bad experience. We audit your site from a real user's perspective: mobile responsiveness on actual devices, navigation clarity (can a first-time visitor find what they need in under 3 clicks?), form usability, accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA baseline), scroll behavior, visual design quality, and conversion-path friction. We also test functional elements — broken buttons, broken forms, dead-end pages, JavaScript errors, and cross-browser compatibility. You get annotated screenshots of every issue, an accessibility report, a design-quality assessment, and a prioritized fix list. A site that frustrates users cannot convert them — no matter how well it ranks.

An audit is only as good as the action it drives. We deliver a clear, prioritized remediation plan with an effort-impact matrix — quick wins you can implement today (like fixing a broken H1 or adding FAQ schema), structural fixes for your developer (like crawl budget optimization or Core Web Vitals tuning), and strategic plays (like a full content refresh or GEO entity-building campaign). Every fix is mapped to the specific SAGE layer it addresses. If you prefer we handle the fixes ourselves, our remediation packages cover the full stack and include ongoing monitoring with a free re-audit at 90 days to verify improvements.