Question 1

What is the visual SEO audit?

Accepted Answer

A graded check of one page in eight sections: on-page SEO, technical, links, usability, performance, social, local and schema, and AI search, with every check explained and a list of fixes. You can share it, download it as a PDF and re-run it to see the change.

Question 2

What happens when SEOmise scans my website?

Accepted Answer

SEOmise reads your public pages the way a search engine does, starting at the home page and following your links and sitemap. The scan only reads, so nothing on your site changes, and it works on every platform.

Question 3

How do I read the Issues list?

Accepted Answer

Scan → Site health → Issues groups what the last scan found by problem, with every affected address. Open a group to see the pages, show them on the site map or add the fix to the fix jar.

Question 4

What do Fix, Improve and Info mean on the Issues list?

Accepted Answer

They say how much a problem matters. Fix is serious (broken pages, pages nothing links to, missing titles), Improve is worth doing, and Info is good to know or to check.

Question 5

How is the website health score worked out?

Accepted Answer

The health score, from 0 to 100, is the share of your pages that pass each check, weighted by category. It comes only from reading your public pages, not from rankings or visitor numbers.

Question 6

What is Day 0, and can I change it?

Accepted Answer

Day 0 is your website's starting point: the first scan that ran to the end. Every later scan is compared with it, and it never moves.

Question 7

What is the SEOmise score?

Accepted Answer

One score from 0 to 100 that combines seven areas: visibility, technical, content, internal links, authority, local and performance. Areas with no data are left out, never counted as zero.

Question 8

How do I improve one page?

Accepted Answer

Open Website health → Pages and choose a page. You see what is wrong with it, steps to fix each problem, an SEO and readability check, AI help for the title, description and image alt text, its links, its history and its speed figures.

Question 9

What do the Content SEO checks look at?

Accepted Answer

Content SEO checks every scanned page for its focus keyphrase, title, meta description, text length, links, images and readability, and gives each page an SEO score and a readability score.

Question 10

How does the AI Plan decide what to do first?

Accepted Answer

The AI Plan turns what SEOmise measured into a to-do list and puts the jobs that make the biggest difference for the least work first. It refreshes itself every morning.

Question 11

How does a change get from SEOmise to my website?

Accepted Answer

Every change is proposed, previewed, approved, published through your site connector and then checked on the live page. Nothing reaches your site without approval, and every change can be undone.

Question 12

Who can approve, publish and undo changes?

Accepted Answer

It depends on the role. Owners and admins can do everything, SEO managers propose and publish, approvers approve and content editors propose. High-risk changes need an owner or admin.

Question 13

Can I undo one page of a change and keep the rest?

Accepted Answer

Yes, for most kinds of change. Open the change, find the page or image under "Pages and images in this change" and press Undo. The other items stay as they are.

Question 14

How do I roll back a change?

Accepted Answer

Open the change under Act → Changes and press Roll back. Your site puts back what it saved before the change.

Question 15

Where can I see every change made to one page?

Accepted Answer

Each page has a History section: every change SEOmise made or proposed on it, newest first, with before and after, who proposed and approved it, and an Undo for that page alone.

Question 16

What is the fix jar, and what does Fix all do?

Accepted Answer

The fix jar collects the fixes you pick from reports. Fix all then makes them in one go: through your site connector where it can, and as ready-to-apply steps everywhere else.

Question 17

What if SEOmise cannot change my website itself?

Accepted Answer

Then SEOmise prepares each fix for you: steps for your platform, the exact text to copy and files in your platform's format. You make the change, press Mark as done, and SEOmise checks your live page.

Question 18

Why did my change fail or get rolled back?

Accepted Answer

Usually the live page did not show the change (often a page cache), the site refused it, or the connector cannot make that kind of change. The change screen gives the reason.

Question 19

How do Speed fixes make my website faster?

Accepted Answer

Speed fixes loads your home page and most visited pages like a phone would, then offers up to six fixes. With the WordPress or Laravel connector SEOmise applies them after approval and can undo them; on other platforms you get the steps and smaller images to upload.

Question 20

How does the accessibility check and fix work?

Accepted Answer

It checks every page of your website scan for common WCAG 2.1 AA problems, explains each one in plain words, fixes the safe ones through your connector after approval or gives the steps for your platform, and drafts an accessibility statement.

Question 21

How do I fix missing pages and broken links?

Accepted Answer

Toolbox → Fix → Broken links & 404s lists the pages people and Google can no longer reach, and links that lead nowhere. It suggests the best live page for each missing one, then sets up the redirect for you or gives you a file in your platform's format.

Question 22

What does Website watch check, and when does it alert me?

Accepted Answer

Website watch checks your website every five minutes and alerts you by e-mail or on your phone when it goes down, when its certificate or domain name is about to run out, or when something changes that you did not expect. It works on any platform.

Question 23

What does the privacy and cookie scanner check?

Accepted Answer

It reads your home page and up to three more the way a first-time visitor sees them, before any consent, and lists the trackers and cookies, whether they wait for consent, and what to fix. It is a guide for Ireland, the UK and the EU, not legal advice.

Question 24

What does Domain health check?

Accepted Answer

Domain health reads your domain's public records: mail servers, SPF, DKIM and DMARC, mail transport security (MTA-STS, TLS reports, DANE), the registry's registration data and who provides your DNS, mail, CDN and hosting. Each finding has its evidence and the steps for your DNS host. It appears as "Email and hosting" under the audited domain in the SEO audit.

Question 25

How do I prove I own my domain?

Accepted Answer

Some features act on your domain: Domain health, the CDN screens and the Publisher Network. One proof covers them all: the SEOmise connector on your site, a DNS TXT record, a file on your site or a meta tag. SEOmise checks it again every 30 days; if a check fails you have a week's grace and are told before anything pauses.

Question 26

What do the Files and Results tabs of the CDN show?

Accepted Answer

Files lists what each page loads (scripts, style sheets, images, fonts) from the latest site scan, with size, cache time, compression and whether the CDN or your server answered. Results shows your Search Console clicks and Google Analytics sessions beside each CDN change made, the same number of days before and after, side by side and never as cause and effect.

Question 27

What does Indexing status show?

Accepted Answer

Web SEO → Indexing status shows which of your pages search engines can find, read and index: a funnel from discovered to indexed, how fast new pages get indexed, pages at risk, the health of each folder and every page with what to do. You can ask Search Console to inspect pages within the daily allowance and add pages to the SEOmise sitemap. It works without Search Console, from the scan and the sitemaps.

Question 28

How do internal link suggestions work?

Accepted Answer

Web SEO → Internal links suggests links from your pages that already mention a search to the page that ranks for it. Accept, change the link text, or reject each one (also in bulk), then send them through Changes for approval: the connector adds them where it can, otherwise you get the steps for your platform and mark them done. The next scan confirms them, and they can be undone.

Question 29

What does Crawlers and bots show?

Accepted Answer

Web SEO → Crawlers and bots shows which bots read your site, how often, and where search engines run into trouble: pages that answer search engines differently, and blocked or noindex pages they read often, with fix steps for your platform. Visits come from the site connector or from access logs you upload.

Question 30

How is my website's availability worked out?

Accepted Answer

Website watch shows availability on a careful method: time nobody checked counts against the site, the share of the time that was checked is shown beside it, and a figure appears only when enough was checked. A failed check is confirmed by a second attempt before it counts, maintenance windows you set ahead are left out, and related alerts are grouped into one notice.

Question 31

What does the site graph show?

Accepted Answer

Website health → Site graph draws every page of your latest scan and the internal links between them. Use the highlight buttons to find your busiest pages, pages nothing links to, valuable pages with too few links, and pages search engines cannot index.

Question 32

How do I watch my CDN in SEOmise?

Accepted Answer

MiseGuard → CDN shows how your website is served: its public set-up (DNS, certificate, cache headers, answer times) and, once you connect your CDN account with a read-only token, its traffic, cache and security figures. SEOmise only reads; nothing on your CDN is changed.

Question 33

What does "Do it for me" do?

Accepted Answer

On a connected site, the tools have a "Do it for me" button instead of only suggesting what to do. SEOmise prepares the change, approves it when your role may, sends it through your site connector and shows each step in a window, then offers a new scan and Undo. Where it cannot do it, you get the steps for your platform and "Hire Mise to do it".

Question 34

How does "Hire Mise to do it" work?

Accepted Answer

Every item a tool suggests can be handed to the SEOmise team as one task, paid per task. The button shows the price; the order shows how long it takes. You pay online (or, where online payment is not set up, get a quote first), and a support ticket opens with the project, the item and its steps.

Question 35

How do I fix a problem: myself, with help, or done for me?

Accepted Answer

Every problem, issue and recommendation SEOmise finds, in every tool, offers three buttons: "I'll fix it myself" (the steps for your platform, free), "Help me do it" (step by step, with drafts you approve) and "Do it for me" (SEOmise prepares it, you approve it, it sends it and checks the result, or our team does it where SEOmise cannot change your site).

Question 36

How do I read the On-page checks page?

Accepted Answer

Tiles at the top count the pages failing each check, with how serious it is and the change since your previous scan. Under them, one block per check lists the pages, as tiles or as a grid, with the three ways to fix it.

Question 37

How do I compare two scans of my website?

Accepted Answer

Scan → Site health → Compare scans puts any two finished scans of your website side by side: the issues fixed, the new ones and those still there, with how many addresses each affects before and after and the addresses that changed. The health overview also shows your score against the recommended 90+, and errors, warnings and notices with how often each occurs.

Question 38

How do speed alerts work?

Accepted Answer

Web SEO → Page speed shows Speed alerts: a key page that was slower than its own usual speed on its two newest PageSpeed tests (score, main content, layout shift or reactions to taps), with the figures and what changed where SEOmise can tell. You get one message per check, by bell and e-mail as you chose. No extra tests are run.

Question 39

Where do I see everything in my fix jar, and how do I keep notes on a fix?

Accepted Answer

Open Act → Fix jar → This project (or press the jar's count or "View the jar" on the sticky bar). Every fix shows its report, state, credits, who added it and the latest note. Open a fix for its own page, with its timeline and a box to add notes with the date and time.

Question 40

What does Plan progress show?

Accepted Answer

On the AI Plan, Plan progress shows your tasks as done, in progress, to do and set aside in one ring, the share done of the tasks you did not set aside, how many were done in the last 30 days, and the progress of each area: website, search, local and authority.

Question 41

How does the free audit of up to 100 pages work?

Accepted Answer

On the free SEO audit page, keep "Also check up to 100 pages of the site" ticked (or press "Check the whole site, free" on a finished free audit). SEOmise reads up to 100 pages of the same site without an account and shows how many pages have each issue, the most important first, with a few of them by address. "Start free with <your site>" starts sign-up with the site filled in.

Question 42

How do I scan a site that builds its pages with JavaScript?

Accepted Answer

Website health → tick "Render JavaScript" next to the scan button. From the next scan, its first pages (50 unless SEOmise changes it) are opened in a real browser on the queue and read again: titles, text, headings and links that only appear after the scripts ran. Until SEOmise switches the feature on it shows Beta with "Ask for early access"; where the server cannot run the browser it says so.

Question 43

What is overwrite protection on a change?

Accepted Answer

When a change to titles, descriptions, structured data, internal links or alt text is prepared, SEOmise reads what it will replace on your site. If someone edits that page before the change is published, your site connector refuses to overwrite it and the change offers "Prepare again". Changes you make by hand get a warning instead.

Question 44

How do I use the tools on "See the magic"?

Accepted Answer

See the magic draws your website as a living map: dig into the globe of pages and pull pages out, hide pages by depth or section, watch visits, bots or your last scan move across it in live mode, and run tools on it: orphan pages, link strength, click depth, broken links and redirects, duplicate and thin pages, indexing and the sitemap, sections, traffic and the shortest path from the home page. Choose pages on the map or in the list and fix them the three ways. The tools are free: they use your latest scan.

Question 45

What is the Zyte API rendering fallback?

Accepted Answer

When a page arrives almost empty because JavaScript builds it, and the scan is not rendering it with SEOmise's own browser, SEOmise can read it again through the Zyte API, a rendering service. Your robots.txt and our opt-out list are checked first, a bot wall is gone through only on a site you have verified, and each workspace has a monthly number of pages. Until SEOmise switches it on it shows Beta with "Ask for early access".

Question 46

How do I use the Time machine?

Accepted Answer

See the magic → Time machine shows your website's history as dated cards, layer by layer: pages, searches, backlinks, traffic, local, AI visibility and changes. Scroll or drag through the timeline and the cards and figures change with the date; the panel beside them says what was gained and lost. It reads history SEOmise already keeps and costs nothing.

Question 47

How is the SEO audit grade worked out?

Accepted Answer

The SEO audit grade starts at 100 and loses points for each problem by how serious it is. A critical problem caps the grade whatever else passes, and without Google's speed test the grade is provisional and stops at B. "Why this grade" on the report names every cap and the largest deductions.

Question 48

How do I use the free SEO tools?

Accepted Answer

Open /free-seo-tools on our website: no account needed. Six tools run in your browser and send nothing to us (search snippet preview, structured data, hreflang, robots.txt, UTM links, keyword lists). Three read a website from our server (redirects, sitemaps, a page's meta tags) after a bot check, within a daily limit; until they are switched on they show Beta with "Ask for early access".

Question 49

How do you know how my hosting company performs, and is my data used?

Accepted Answer

SEOmise checks thousands of websites for uptime. It works out which hosting company each one is on and builds anonymous figures per hosting company: uptime, outages and answer times. A figure appears only when enough separate businesses and sites contribute, and no single website or customer can be recognised.

Question 50

What does "Only after JavaScript" mean?

Accepted Answer

Scan → Issues → Only after JavaScript lists, for the pages a scan rendered, the text, links, title and tags that only appeared once the page's scripts ran. Search engines that do not run scripts, and AI assistants, never see them. Each comes with steps for your platform, a guided walk through them, or our team.

Question 51

How do I use the MiseGuard Chrome extension?

Accepted Answer

The MiseGuard extension for Chrome (and Microsoft Edge) puts your sites in the browser toolbar: the badge counts the sites that need attention, one click shows each site's uptime, issues, recent scans and mail figures, notifications tell you when a site goes down, malware is found or a backup fails, and on any website it shows the public security facts. You pair it with a code you approve: it never sees your password, and it cannot change anything on your sites.

Question 52

What is MiseGuard, and what do Solo and Agency include?

Accepted Answer

MiseGuard looks after your websites in one place: clean form e-mails, uptime, updates and vulnerabilities, a firewall with a daily malware scan, backups, your CDN, your domain's e-mail set-up and privacy. Solo covers one site; Agency is a base price that includes the first sites, then a price for each extra site, and adds client groups with a report per client. Both include every area and a free trial.

Question 53

How do I set up MiseGuard without knowing security, and see what it did for me?

Accepted Answer

Every protection in MiseGuard has settings: the Firewall, the Malware scan and Mail have modes (Off, Relaxed, Normal, Lock it down, or your own template, saved once and applied to any of your sites with a preview), the others a preset, plus plain questions with what each means and the risk either way, and Advanced for the raw values. A live sentence says what your choices do before you save, every change can be undone, and the same settings are in the plugin in WordPress. The Activity screen lists everything MiseGuard did for each site, the figures show attacks blocked, logins protected, spam stopped, scans, backups and uptime, and the protection score says how it is worked out. Each Monday an e-mail sums up the week.

Question 54

What does the note at the bottom of the e-mails from MiseGuard say, and why?

Accepted Answer

Each e-mail MiseGuard delivers after checking a form message carries a short note under it: what the check really found (for example "no threats found", or that the attachments were not virus-scanned), a link to who protected it, and a disclaimer that no check can catch every threat. The note comes after the message, never inside the visitor's text or the attachments, in both the HTML and the plain-text part.

Question 55

Why do some suggestions say "From the page" instead of "AI"?

Accepted Answer

In "Do it for me" and "Help me do it", the AI writes each page's title, description, main heading or alt text on its own. When it cannot write one page, that page starts from its own text (or, for a page with no text, a template for its type marked "Template: check it") and the rest still use the AI. The re-write button on each suggestion asks the AI again for that one, "Re-write all with AI" or "Try again" for all it missed, and "Writing with" chooses the AI model. You pay only for what it writes.

Question 56

When does a check show Fixed?

Accepted Answer

Each check on "What to do next" and on the Issues list shows where its fix is: Fix, Fixing, Fixed · checking, Fixed with a green tick, or Came back. Fixed checks move below the open ones, and Hide fixed takes them away.

Question 57

Where do my links sit: content, menus or footer?

Accepted Answer

Each scan records where on the page every internal link sits: in the content, a menu, the footer, the header, a sidebar or the breadcrumbs. See the magic draws each kind of line differently, lets you show only the links in some places (such as only the content links), and counts every page's links in and out by place.

Question 58

How do I copy another site's linking pattern?

Accepted Answer

Web SEO → Internal links → Copy a linking pattern reads how a competitor, another of your projects or any website links its pages, as a pattern of page roles (service pages, location pages, blog posts, reviews, contact…), maps your own pages onto the same roles, shows how your site follows each rule, and proposes the links that are missing on words your pages already use. They go to the same review and to Changes as every internal link, with approval, the live check and undo.

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