A fixed-scope diagnostic of your site's entity coverage, predicate consistency, semantic dilution, AI citation readiness, and technical infrastructure. Delivered as a 25–40 page written report with prioritized issue map. Yours to keep, execute internally, or use as the foundation of architecture work.
Seven diagnostic components run sequentially across the audit. Each one produces written findings that flow into the final prioritized issue map. No vague "SEO health checks." Every component has a defined scope, defined output, and defined contribution to the recommendation layer.
Maps your existing entity footprint against the topic's full attribute space. Identifies where the Central Entity is well-defined, fragmented, or where coverage gaps create competitor opportunities. Output: entity coverage heatmap with severity scoring.
Audits how the same relationships between entities are described across pages. Flags inconsistent predicate language fragmenting authority. Output: predicate consistency report with documented examples and proposed unified vocabulary.
Identifies content drift — pages, clusters, or topics pulling authority away from the Central Entity. Locates Source Term Vector violations, off-topic content, category-confusing assets. Output: dilution map with prune/redirect/restructure recommendations.
Evaluates how ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews currently see your site. Tests against representative queries. Identifies why retrievals fail. Output: AI visibility diagnostic with citation-readiness scoring per cluster.
Reviews schema, structured data, internal linking, and crawl signals — only the parts affecting entity recognition. Not a generic technical SEO audit — every finding ties back to entity authority impact. Output: technical findings tied to entity outcomes.
Maps your entity authority against 3–5 ranking competitors. Identifies where they hold structural advantage, where you have defensible openings, which clusters are realistically winnable. Output: competitive entity gap analysis with prioritized opportunities.
Synthesis layer. All findings consolidated into severity-scored, sequenced issue map with proposed remediation paths. Each issue tagged with effort estimate, expected impact, dependencies. Output: actionable roadmap your team or ours can execute against.
The audit runs through 6 active diagnostic components. Building mode shows the audit mid-flight. Outcome mode shows the deliverable at handoff. Toggle to see both.
This engagement produces real outcomes for businesses ready for the methodology — and frustrates businesses looking for quick fixes. The fit map below is honest. If your business is in the right column, an audit-first approach or a different service is the better starting point.
The audit runs on a fixed 2–3 week schedule. Week 01 is intake and access provisioning — your team's only material time commitment. Week 02 is diagnostic execution. Week 03 is synthesis and walkthrough.
The audit is a productized engagement — fully scoped before kickoff, no surprise additions. Final pricing depends on site complexity (page count, vertical complexity, multilingual scope). The audit is the lowest-commitment way to validate fit before architecture work.
Single payment · invoiced at kickoff · 50% upfront / 50% on deliverable · USD wire or Wise. Audit fee credited toward architecture engagement if started within 60 days of deliverable.
Book Strategy CallThe questions below come up most often during scoping calls for this engagement.
The base price covers a single-language site with up to 200 indexed pages, 1 vertical, and standard scope (no regulatory or YMYL specialization). Pricing scales upward for: multilingual sites (additional language adds $1,500–$3,000), large sites (500+ pages adds $1,500), YMYL verticals (medical, legal, financial — adds $2,000 for SME-grade review), and multiple verticals on one domain.
Final pricing is locked during the intake call before any work starts.
Traditional SEO audits diagnose technical issues, content gaps, and backlink profile health. The Semantic Audit operates at the entity layer — it diagnoses how cleanly your Central Entity is defined, how consistently your predicates run, how completely your topical map covers the buyer's question space, and how AI retrieval models currently see your site.
No. The audit is a standalone productized engagement. You pay for the audit, receive the deliverable, and decide independently what to do next. Many clients close with us after the audit and execute the roadmap internally.
Three artifacts ship at end of Week 03: (1) the main audit document in DOCX format (25–40 pages), (2) the prioritized issue map as a separate spreadsheet, and (3) the entity coverage heatmap as both an embedded visual and exportable PDF.
Yes. The deliverable is yours after delivery — no NDA constraints. We treat this as a feature, not a leak. A buyer who runs a methodology-grade audit through three competing agencies and chooses us based on the depth is a stronger fit than one who only saw our pitch.
The audit isn't the right product for greenfield sites. There's nothing structural to audit yet. Pre-launch sites need architecture, not audit.
The audit is the lowest-commitment path to working with Digital Vikingz. You receive a structurally complete diagnostic of your site's authority infrastructure — yours to keep regardless of what you decide next.