Question 1

What are backlinks and why do they matter?

Accepted Answer

Backlinks are links from other websites to yours. Search engines read them as recommendations: more good, relevant websites linking to you means more trust and better rankings.

Question 2

How do I connect my Google Business Profile?

Accepted Answer

Open Local → Local overview, press Connect with Google and allow SEOmise to manage your Business Profiles. Then choose the business location that belongs to this project and press Attach.

Question 3

How do I reply to Google reviews with AI drafts?

Accepted Answer

Open Social → Reviews, choose a review and press Draft with AI or write your own reply. Check it, then press Approve and publish. Each reply goes to Google one at a time, and only for verified locations.

Question 4

Can SEOmise reply to reviews or write Google posts by itself?

Accepted Answer

Partly, and only as far as you allow under Act → Business Profile → Automation. Review replies can be drafted automatically, and replies to 4–5 star reviews can be published automatically if an approver switches that on. Posts are only ever drafted, never published on their own.

Question 5

How do I create and schedule Google posts?

Accepted Answer

Open Act → Business Profile → Posts, write an update, event or offer (or ask for an AI draft) and press Request approval. An approver then chooses Approve and schedule or Publish now, and SEOmise publishes the post on Google at that time.

Question 6

What is the map rank grid and how do I set it up?

Accepted Answer

The map rank grid checks where your business appears in Google Maps results from points spread around it, for the searches you choose. It needs a local rank provider on your installation; without one the screen says Integration required.

Question 7

How do I check my business details match everywhere I am listed?

Accepted Answer

Open Analyse → Local → Citations (NAP), check the canonical business details, then add or import your directory listings. SEOmise compares each listing with those details and marks it as an exact match, acceptable variant, mismatch, duplicate or missing.

Question 8

How do I ask my customers for Google reviews?

Accepted Answer

Use Social → Reviews → Review booster: set up your Google review link, add the customers you want to ask, then press Ask them for a review. Every customer gets the same fair invitation by e-mail (or text message where your installation offers it), with at most one reminder.

Question 9

How do I make a review QR code or printable card?

Accepted Answer

Open Social → Reviews → Review booster → QR code & cards. Download the QR code as a PNG or SVG, or a postcard-size A6 card as a PDF with your name, logo and colour. Anyone who scans it gets the same Google review form.

Question 10

How do I run a backlink check, and where does the data come from?

Accepted Answer

Open Links → Links overview and press Run backlink check (tick Include competitors to check them too). The data comes from the backlink data source your installation uses; without a paid one, the built-in SEOmise link checker verifies the links you give it.

Question 11

How do I use the backlink galaxy?

Accepted Answer

Open Analyse → Backlinks → Galaxy. Each dot is a website linking to you; filter by risk, topic, link attribute, review decision, status and domain rank, tick the legend and the topic groups to show or hide dots, and click a dot for its information card: the exact linking page, your page it links to, the anchor, attribute, link weight and risk score, its other links, and Start disavow.

Question 12

How do I see which backlinks I gained or lost?

Accepted Answer

Links → Links overview shows the websites gained and lost since the last check. The full history is under Links → Backlink profile → New & lost, and Links → Link health keeps watch over the links that matter most to you.

Question 13

How do I get a disavow file and upload it to Google?

Accepted Answer

In Analyse → Backlinks → Risk review, mark only the websites you are sure about as Disavow candidate. An approver then confirms each warning, approves the disavow candidate file and downloads it, and the site owner uploads it in Google Search Console. SEOmise never sends it to Google.

Question 14

How do I find sites that link to my competitors but not to me?

Accepted Answer

Open Analyse → Backlinks → Competitor gaps. It lists websites that link to your competitors but not to you. Approve the relevant ones, then add them to outreach to earn a link yourself, or start a paid campaign if link campaigns are in your plan.

Question 15

How do link campaigns work, and when am I charged?

Accepted Answer

Under Modules → Link marketplace → Campaigns you set an objective and a budget, SEOmise proposes scored placements from the connected link providers, and someone with approval rights approves the exact total before anything is ordered. Nothing is charged before approval.

Question 16

How do I add the SEOmise tracker to my website?

Accepted Answer

The WordPress, Laravel and PHP connectors add the tracker for you. On any other platform, copy the one-line snippet from Visitors → Live view → Settings, paste it into the head of every page, then press Check installation in the Install guide.

Question 17

How do I see heat maps and how far visitors scroll?

Accepted Answer

Open Visitors → Live view, choose a page and switch on the click or mouse heat map for a period from the last 30 minutes to 30 days. Beside it you see how far visitors scrolled and what they clicked. Real-time shows the same over a copy of your page.

Question 18

What does Live view record, and how do I keep visitors' details private?

Accepted Answer

The tracker records page views, scrolling, clicks and (on desktop) mouse positions, with the visitor's IP address, rough location and device. It never records what people type, uses no cookies, respects Do Not Track and consent tools, and you can blank out parts of your pages with data-seomise-mask.

Question 19

Where do I see how many people visit my website?

Accepted Answer

Visitors → Insights shows visits, pages, devices, locations, sources and page walks from the SEOmise tracker on any platform. WordPress sites also get Visitors → Traffic, the daily totals the WordPress connector counts. Google's own figures are under Visitors → Google data.

Question 20

How do I connect Google Search Console, Analytics, Ads and PageSpeed?

Accepted Answer

Open Visitors → Google data, tick Search Console, Google Analytics 4 and (where offered) Google Ads, press Connect Google and choose a property for each. PageSpeed needs no sign-in: its tests run under Website health → Page speed.

Question 21

How do I send my client a report every week or month?

Accepted Answer

Open Analyse → Reports → Client reports, switch on Weekly (Monday morning) or Monthly (on the 1st) under Scheduled reports, add the recipients and save. Each recipient gets an e-mail with a link to the PDF. You can also download the PDF yourself at any time.

Question 22

How do I share an SEO audit report or have it e-mailed regularly?

Accepted Answer

Open the report, press Share and then Create share link: anyone with the link can read it and download its PDF without signing in, until you switch the link off. To send it regularly, add recipients under Scheduled e-mails on Reports → SEO audit report.

Question 23

What is the monthly owner digest and how do I set it up?

Accepted Answer

A short monthly e-mail in plain words for business owners who rarely sign in: up to three wins, one thing to fix and the next step with a one-click link. Choose who gets it, the day and what it includes under Toolbox → Leads & clients → Monthly owner digest.

Question 24

Who approves changes to my Google Business Profile?

Accepted Answer

Every change SEOmise sends to your Google Business Profile is approved first. Open Act → Business Profile → Approvals to see what waits, approve or decline it with a reason, and set who approves: your team, your agency's customer through their portal, or either.

Question 25

How do live client report links work?

Accepted Answer

Reports → Client report links makes a private address for an SEO audit report, a project's rank positions or its AI visibility that always shows the newest data. Add a password or an end date if you like, pause it, give it a new address or revoke it, and have a copy e-mailed weekly or monthly. The view log keeps only the time, country and device type.

Question 26

What are target pages in Links?

Accepted Answer

Act → Link building → Target pages lists the pages of your site that other websites link to, and whether your own internal links pass that strength on to the pages that need it. Its suggestions say which strong pages should link to which weaker ones.

Question 27

How do I follow up leads from my ads and website forms?

Accepted Answer

Toolbox → Leads & clients → Lead inbox collects leads from your ad accounts, website forms (directly, or through Zapier or Make) and spreadsheet imports. Open a lead to call or e-mail it, log the call, book a follow-up or meeting, send a simple quote, and move it through your pipeline to Confirmed, Converted or Dead.

Question 28

What do the backlink fields mean?

Accepted Answer

Plain-words explanations of the technical fields on the Links screens and the Link health form: the page that links to you, your page, the expected anchor, the link attribute (rel), indexable, canonical address, domain rank, risk score, link weight and topic group.

Question 29

What does "See the magic" on an SEO audit do?

Accepted Answer

"See the magic" sits at the top of every finished SEO audit, on the free audit and in the app. It opens the website's live view: who is on it now, the pages they read, where they come from and heat maps of where they click. With the site connected and a plan that includes the connector you see your real visitors; otherwise you see the same screen on sample data and what it takes to see your own.

Question 30

Why does Live view show a picture of my page instead of the real site?

Accepted Answer

Live view draws your visitors on a picture of each page that SEOmise takes, so it works on every website. It can also show the real site, but only when the site lets other sites show it inside theirs and carries the SEOmise tracker. When it cannot, Live view says exactly why, for example "X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN". Everything else works the same either way.

Question 31

How does the Reports centre work?

Accepted Answer

Reports (in the workspace menu, on each project and in Admin) holds every report you may make: pick a category, then a report, choose the project, the period, the sections and the brand, and make it as PDF, CSV or Excel. Every report is kept in the library, where you download it again, share it by a private link or make a new version for another period. Reports use data SEOmise already has: making one never buys data.

Question 32

How do I share a report from the Reports centre?

Accepted Answer

Open a report in the library, choose Share links and make a link: choose when it ends, add a password if you like, and whether readers may download the files. The link shows the report as it was made, keeps a view log without internet addresses, and can be revoked at any time.

Question 33

How do I send clients a monthly update on their rankings?

Accepted Answer

Analyse → Reports → Client update e-mails sends each client a branded e-mail every month (or week) with the keywords that moved up and down, new entries into the top 10, average position, search visibility, Google clicks, the work done and what comes next. Choose who gets it, the day and hour, and whether you approve each one first.

Question 34

How does sign-off work in the Reports centre?

Accepted Answer

A report can need sign-off before it is shared, shown in the client portal or sent. Choose it when you make the report, or have your workspace ask for it on every report under Reports → Settings. The people who may sign off get an e-mail, read the report and sign it off or ask for changes; a signed report carries "Signed off by" with the date and a fingerprint of its figures.

Question 35

How do I schedule a report?

Accepted Answer

Make any report on a schedule: once, every week, month or quarter, on the day and hour you choose in your time zone. SEOmise makes it on its own, as you, from data it already has, and e-mails it to the people you chose with a private link and the PDF. Reports that need sign-off are sent only once they are signed off.

Question 36

How do I give SEOmise manager access to my Business Profile?

Accepted Answer

In your Google Business Profile, open the menu (⋮) → Business Profile settings → People and access, press Add, enter the e-mail address you were given, choose Manager under Access and press Invite. SEOmise accepts the invitation and links your profile to your project.

Question 37

How do I read my growth figures for a period, and see calls from my Business Profile?

Accepted Answer

Open Analyse → Visitors → Google data. Pick the period at the top (or exact dates) and what to compare with; every figure, chart and table follows it. Click a figure to chart it, and a slice, bar or row to show only that device, country, channel, page or search term.

Question 38

Which reports show results against the period before?

Accepted Answer

Eleven reports about a project, each with figure tiles, charts (lines, bars and pies) and tables, as a PDF and online by link: Executive summary, Keyword rankings and movers, Backlinks gained and lost, Technical health trend, Google Business Profile performance, Local visibility on the map grid, Content performance, AI visibility, Competitor comparison, Leads and conversions, and the Monthly client pack that bundles them. They read figures already measured for the project; a figure that was not measured says why instead of showing 0.

Question 39

How do I find backlinks a backlink index misses, and what does the coverage report show?

Accepted Answer

Open Analyse → Backlinks → Found on the web and press Find on the web: SEOmise asks the AI's web search and the search results provider for pages that name your website, business name, phone number or address, adds what its own web watch saw, then reads each page itself to check whether it links to you, names you without a link, or neither. You can also import a backlink file from Google Search Console, Ahrefs, Semrush, Moz or another tool. The Links overview's coverage report shows what each source found, what only one source found, the findings grouped by what to do, and an AI summary written from the stored findings only.

Question 40

What does our free bot find for "Found on the web"?

Accepted Answer

Our bot reads public pages and looks for your business on each one: links to your website (followed or nofollow), mentions of your website, name or phone without a link, and listings on directory sites, each with where it was found, when it was first and last seen and whether it is still there. What it finds is in the list on Found on the web, next to what every other source found. It is free: no credits are used. While it is in early access it shows Beta with "Ask for early access".

Question 41

What are the backlink plans?

Accepted Answer

Monthly link building by our team, offered on Competitor gaps and the Backlinks overview: Starter, Growth and Authority, with the price per month or per year (two months free by default). We earn links from real websites by outreach to the websites in your gap and by digital PR. No private blog networks, no paid links passed off as earned, and no promise of rankings. While the plans are in early access they show Beta with Ask for early access.

Question 42

Why do I see only a few backlinks?

Accepted Answer

The card "Where your backlinks come from" on the Backlinks overview says how your own profile is filled and what each source found. Common reasons: your profile is read by the built-in link checker, which only checks the links you listed under Link health; the backlink index has not crawled the small and local sites that link to you; the last check read only part of the list; or the data source answered with errors. The card lists the next steps: import the Search Console links export or a CSV, a full backlink index, the web watch, and adding the links you know.

Question 43

How do I see a competitor's profile and copy their backlink plan?

Accepted Answer

Click a competitor's name in any grid (Competitor gaps, Keyword gap, Search settings, a search's results, Against competitors) or press Competitor profile. A panel opens on the right with who they are, whether they are on your watch list, how far they reach (local, a certain area, region or nationwide), the searches they rank for and where, their backlinks, and the domains linked to them. From there you can add or remove them, check them (the price is shown first) and copy their backlink plan into your outreach list.

Question 44

How do I put a lead form, a pop-up or a call button on my website?

Accepted Answer

Open your project → Toolbox → Leads & clients → Lead capture and pick a form in the page, a pop-up, a slide-in, a sticky bar or a call and WhatsApp button. Build it with the live preview, save and publish it, then add one line of code to your site (the exact steps for your platform are on the screen). Every enquiry lands in your Lead inbox.

Question 45

How do I answer Facebook and Instagram messages and comments with my quote form?

Accepted Answer

Open Messages from the card at the top of the Lead inbox (or Toolbox → Leads & clients → Messenger replies). Switch messages and comments on for a Page you connected, then answer each person from the conversation with a saved reply and a tracked link to one of your Lead capture forms. An automatic first reply is optional per Page. Without a connected Page, "Copy a reply" makes the same reply to paste into Messenger, WhatsApp or anywhere.

Question 46

How do I list my business on directories and follow each listing?

Accepted Answer

Under Analyse → Local → Citations (NAP), Directory listings shows each directory you are listed on or working on, from to do to live. Where to list the business next shows the directories, business profiles, associations, chambers, partner pages and journalist services our team checked for your country, town and category, each with its steps. Our team can also do it for you, after you approve each directory.

Question 47

Can I republish my articles on Medium, LinkedIn, Substack or Blogger?

Accepted Answer

Yes, by hand. Open a published article and use Republish on other platforms: pick the platform, copy the text prepared for it (it ends with a note linking to your original article), publish it there, then paste its address and press Check it. It brings readers and mentions of your brand; it is not a ranking link.

Question 48

What do a site's terms mean, and how do draft orders work?

Accepted Answer

Every site in the link marketplace shows its terms before you order: how the link is marked, how long it stays up, the content rules, the turnaround, who may write the article, the price with tax and the link guarantee. Save a site as a draft order to prepare it; nothing is paid until it is ordered and the exact total approved.

Question 49

What is the link guarantee on links I buy?

Accepted Answer

A link bought through the link marketplace is checked on the live page when it is delivered and watched for 12 months. If it is removed, or moved away from the page you ordered, the supplier is asked to put it back; if it is not back within 14 days, you are refunded automatically, as credits in your wallet.

Question 50

How do I check a seller's backlink report with Backlink Verify?

Accepted Answer

Off-page SEO → Backlinks → Verify checks the report a link seller, agency or freelancer sent you, link by link: upload a CSV, TXT or Excel file or paste the addresses, match the columns, see the price in credits, and read the Backlink Truth Audit. Each page is read by our own checker; nothing is installed on any site.

Question 51

What do the results of a Backlink Truth Audit mean?

Accepted Answer

Every link is one of four results: verified as described, different from the claim, missing, or could not check, with what the page showed. A check proves only that the page held the link when and where we read it; it never says that a search engine indexed or values the link.

Question 52

How do I find local blogs and publications to approach?

Accepted Answer

Act → Link building → Local publishers lists local blogs, news sites, community sites and publications that write about your area and your trade, found in the data we already collect for your project. Each has a fit score you can read factor by factor, and three ways forward: your outreach list, Prospect finder or a Publisher Network invitation.

Question 53

How do invitations into the Publisher Network work?

Accepted Answer

A private invitation link for one website opens the Publisher Network's join wizard with the site filled in. The invited person agrees to the consent wording first, and still proves the site is theirs; our team reviews every application. Links expire, can be withdrawn and only their fingerprint is kept.

Question 54

How do I put the Google Analytics tag on my website?

Accepted Answer

Connect Google Analytics under Settings → Connections → This project. The Google tag panel below it reads your property's web stream and checks your home page first. With a site connector, press "Install the Google tag on <your site>": it waits for approval in Changes and can be undone. Without one, copy Google's snippet and follow the steps for your platform, then press "Check the site".

Question 55

Where do I find the reports I sent and the results SEOmise kept?

Accepted Answer

Reports → Sent and kept lists every report sent to a client (as it was sent), every report PDF drawn for a download or a shared link, and the results kept for you, such as each version of the Technical AI analysis. Filter by kind, dates and project; open one to see who it went to, how often it was used again, and to download it through a private link that works for a few minutes. Agencies can show a report in their client's portal.

Question 56

How do report templates and covers work?

Accepted Answer

A template keeps a report's choices: the sections and their order, the brand, the period, the files and its own cover (a title, a subtitle, "Prepared for" and an introduction). Use it to start a report, share it with your workspace or keep it to yourself, copy it, or change it under Reports → Templates.

Question 57

How do review reply rules answer my good Google reviews?

Accepted Answer

Open Social → Reviews → Review reply rules, add a rule (stars, words, language; a template or an AI draft) and switch the rules on. Replies wait in the approval queue unless an approver lets a rule post by itself. Reviews of 1 to 3 stars are never answered by a rule, every reply is logged, and a posted reply can be undone.

Question 58

How do I set up Apple Business Connect and Bing Places?

Accepted Answer

Open Analyse → Local → Apple and Bing set-up. Follow the steps for each, copy every business detail with its Copy button, then press I've done it: SEOmise records the listing and checks its name, address and phone against your details.

Question 59

What is the share of map top 3?

Accepted Answer

Of the map rank grid points that were checked, the share where your business is in the top 3 of Google Maps results, scan after scan, for every tracked keyword together and for each one. It is on the Map rank grid, the Local overview, the Local Intelligence portfolio and the Business Profile section of reports.

Question 60

How do I show my Google reviews on my website?

Accepted Answer

Open Social → Reviews → Review showcase, choose which reviews to show and the look, tick Show the widget and save, then paste its code into your site: a script tag, an iframe, the WordPress block or shortcode, the Laravel directive or the PHP connector function, or a plain HTML copy.

Question 61

How does Review booster count the reviews gained?

Accepted Answer

Under Review booster → Results, Reviews gained counts the new Google reviews that came within 14 days of a request whose customer has the same first name as the reviewer, each customer once, per batch of requests (the day they went out).

Question 62

How do I see my Facebook, Trustpilot, Tripadvisor and Yelp reviews with my Google reviews?

Accepted Answer

Open Social → Reviews, go to Review sites and connect each site: sign in with Facebook or Trustpilot, or paste your Tripadvisor or Yelp address. Their reviews then arrive in All review sites with your Google reviews, filtered by site, stars and reply. Reply from there where the site takes replies (with approval first), or use Reply on the site.

Question 63

How does listings sync work?

Accepted Answer

Open Analyse → Local → Listings. Press Send my details (later Prepare a push), check each detail as it was sent before and as it will be sent, and someone who may publish approves it. Each network then has a row with its status (live, pending, error, duplicate), when it was last synced, Fix and View, and the consistency score shows how many of your listings match your details.

Question 64

How do I import a Business Profile Performance report?

Accepted Answer

While automatic access to Google is not available yet, download the Performance report from Business Profile Manager and upload it under Act → Business Profile → Imports. SEOmise reads its columns, takes the period from the file name, matches each location, shows a preview and then imports the figures, labelled with their source and period. An import can be undone.

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