§ Automatic SEO Checks

Automatic SEO Checks: a continuous, automated SEO audit

Real automated SEO checks that watch your titles, headings, schema, performance, and crawl coverage — and only flag what really needs attention.

Automatic SEO Checks is the always-on audit layer of UpSearch. It scans your site, runs deterministic checks against a curated list of SEO criteria, and surfaces the issues that actually matter. No vague AI guesses, no copy-paste audit dump.

What automatic SEO checks cover

The check engine runs four tiers of checks: basic, deep, advanced, and crawl-coverage. Together they cover the technical and on-page fundamentals that move rankings.

The checks are deterministic — they look at evidence directly and apply rules — so the results are reproducible and easy to verify.

  • Basic: title, meta description, H1, headings, canonical, robots, indexability
  • Deep: content quality, internal linking, schema markup, image attributes
  • Advanced: page performance, crawl budget waste, JavaScript rendering, hreflang
  • Coverage: which pages were scanned, which were skipped, and why

How the audit runs

The audit is two-phase: a discovery pass that builds a map of the site, then an extraction pass that pulls evidence per page.

  • Discovery: sitemap parse + homepage crawl to build the URL list (up to 100 pages)
  • Extraction: page-by-page evidence with timeout and retry handling
  • Guardrails: system pages (cart, checkout, login) get expected-state treatment
  • Persistence: findings are stored, so rescans add clarity rather than wipe history
  • Severity scoring: high/medium/low/info, computed from impact and confidence

Who it is for

Operators who do not want to think about SEO every day but need to know the moment something breaks.

Agencies that want a baseline audit per site that updates itself between reporting cycles.

In-house marketers who inherit a site and need a complete picture of what is there before they ship changes.

What makes these checks different

Most "AI SEO audits" are LLM walkthroughs that confidently invent issues. Our automatic checks are rule-driven against real evidence: a finding only fires when the data on the page actually matches the rule.

That makes the result safe to act on. A high-severity finding is a real issue, not a hallucination.

Frequently asked questions

How often does the audit run?

On demand via Rescan, automatically on a monthly schedule for paid users, and any time your site changes materially.

How many pages does it scan?

Up to 100 pages per scan with sitemap-aware discovery. Pages skipped due to timeout or non-HTML responses are reported in the coverage block.

Can I trust the severity ratings?

Yes. Severity is computed from deterministic rules, not AI judgement. High and critical findings are the ones that move rankings.

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