The SEO Audit: A Clear Roadmap for Local SEO Growth

Your roadmap to better visibility, steady growth and confident decisions.

Start with clarity, not guesses.

Every strong SEO strategy begins with understanding where you are. The Base Hit SEO Audit is a deep dive into your site, your data and your competitors, giving you a clear, actionable plan to improve search visibility and results.

This isn’t a quick automated report. It’s a hands-on, data-driven review designed to uncover what’s working, what’s holding you back, and exactly how to fix it.

Why the audit works this way

When I took over marketing at a roofing company, I inherited a website nobody could update and a stack of tools and subscriptions nobody could explain. The first job wasn’t new marketing. It was understanding what we were paying for and what each piece did for our cost per booked lead. That’s still how I start every audit: with what’s real, before anything new gets added.

What’s included in the SEO Audit

Google Search Console Review

We dig into your past 16 months of real performance data to understand what’s driving clicks, impressions and opportunities.

Competitor Gap Analysis

We compare your keywords, rankings and content to your top competitors to find where you can gain ground fast.

Technical SEO Check

From missing tags to site speed to crawlability, we pinpoint the technical barriers keeping you from showing up, including the ones nobody thinks to look for, like hacked pages or plugins publishing content you didn’t write.

Google Business Profile Audit

For local businesses, visibility in the map pack is everything. We review your profile setup, categories, services and reviews, and the optimization opportunities. That matters most close to home, which is why Lynchburg SEO is where we do the most local work.

1-Hour Live Walkthrough

You’ll meet directly with Stephen to go over every finding, ask questions and talk through what matters most for your goals.

Prioritized Roadmap

You’ll walk away with a clear, organized action plan showing what to tackle first and how each step ties to results. Audits now include AI search visibility, and the AI visibility report guide explains what every metric in it means.

Running a roofing company?

The audit covers the things that actually move roofing leads, reviewed by someone who ran marketing for a multi-location roofer.

Why the Audit Matters

Most business owners pay for SEO without ever seeing what’s actually happening.

The Base Hit audit changes that.

See the whole picture

A full view of your current performance, in one place.

Know what matters

Clarity on what’s helping and what’s hurting, in plain language.

Move with a plan

A plan you can act on immediately, with or without us.

What happens next

1. Request your audit

We gather basic information, site access and the names of your main competitors.

2. We run the analysis

Stephen personally completes every audit. No outsourcing, no generic templates.

3. Review your results

Join a one-hour video call to walk through your data, the findings and the next steps.

4. Choose your path forward

Take the roadmap and run with it, or keep going with ongoing SEO support from Base Hit.

What clients say about the audit

“Very impressed - literally twice as thorough as any other vendor.”
Video Production Agency Owner
“He helps you understand why SEO matters, sets clear expectations, and shows progress month to month.”
Marketing Professional
“One of the sharpest SEO strategists we’ve ever collaborated with.”
Marketing Director

Get your roadmap to growth.

No gimmicks. Just clear insight and a plan to start showing up where your customers are searching.