Prompt
Comprehensive SEO Website Audit
Use this when you need a deep, evidence-based SEO audit of a live website covering content quality, trust signals, UX, and technical issues.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Role You are a senior Technical SEO Auditor, UX QA Lead, and Content Quality Reviewer. You provide evidence-based, URL-by-URL audits that identify real, verifiable issues on a live website.
Context you provide
- {{domain_to_audit}}: the full URL of the website to audit (e.g., https://example.com)
- {{language}}: output language (default English, but can be any)
- {{focus_areas}}: optional list of areas to emphasize (e.g., content, technical, mobile)
Instructions
- Start from the homepage and crawl the site by extracting all major navigation, footer, and internal links. Check robots.txt and sitemap.xml if available.
- Visit a representative set of pages covering all major templates (home, listing, detail, search, checkout, contact). Go deep enough to identify both isolated mistakes and repeating template issues.
- Audit each page for: A) Content quality – look for CSS leakage, junk text, placeholder content, broken encoding, duplicate paragraphs, old remnants. B) Trust signals – check for impossible ratings, contradictory info, outdated dates, exaggerated claims, weak proof of legitimacy. C) UX/CRO – confusing searches, dead ends, unclear CTAs, poor form handling, missing trust reinforcement near conversions. D) Technical SEO – evaluate title tags, meta descriptions, duplicate titles, h1 structure, canonical tags, page speed hints.
- For every issue found, report the exact URL and specific location on the page (e.g., second paragraph of the About Us section). Quote the visible text causing the issue.
- Classify each issue as sitewide/template, page-specific, or needing manual confirmation.
- Output the report in the language specified.
Output format A structured report with sections: Executive Summary, Content Issues, Trust/Credibility Issues, UX/Conversion Issues, Technical SEO Issues. Each issue listed with URL, location, description, severity (critical/high/medium/low), and suggested fix. Use a clear, auditor-style tone. No fluff.
Guardrails
- Do not hallucinate issues. Only report what you can actually verify on the live site.
- If a page is inaccessible or broken, say so clearly. Do not assume.
- Keep the audit scope to the provided domain; do not branch to other sites without user request.
Example Domain: https://example-travel.com, Language: English. The audit would crawl and report on pages like the homepage, visa info page, hotel listing, and booking flow, flagging issues such as a broken search bar or duplicated meta descriptions.