The nine categories every 2026 SEO audit should cover.
Most SEO audit tools still score five dimensions: crawlability, technical, on-page, content, and authority. SEOGrade grades all nine — including the four 2026-specific categories (AI Citability, GEO, pSEO, Local SEO) that decide whether ChatGPT recommends you and whether your long-tail content scales. Pick a category to read its definition, what we check, and how to fix it.
Crawlability
Before a page can rank, a search engine has to find it, fetch it, and understand that it exists. Crawlability is everything that happens before ranking.
Technical SEO
The engineering layer underneath your content. Fast, mobile-friendly, well-structured pages rank higher — and convert better once visitors land.
On-Page SEO
Everything on the page itself that tells Google and AI what this page is about and why it deserves to rank for a given query.
Content & E-E-A-T
Google's quality framework — Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness. How depth, credentials, and freshness decide which pages rank.
Authority
How the broader web perceives your site's credibility. Backlinks, brand mentions, press coverage, referring domain diversity — the off-page signals.
AI Citability
Whether AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google's AI Overviews can extract and recommend your content. The newest and most important category.
GEO
Optimizing specifically for AI-generated search results — the answers that appear above traditional blue links and inside ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity.
pSEO
Creating hundreds or thousands of SEO-optimized pages from templates and structured data — targeting the long tail at scale.
Local SEO
Visibility in local search results and Google's map pack for businesses serving specific geographic areas.