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What a SolCrys Content Audit actually looks like

A SolCrys Content Audit is a per-URL check of how well one page is built to be understood, trusted, and cited by answer engines. You give it a live URL, or a draft before it's published, and it returns a 0–100 score across 4 categories (Content Strength, Trust & Evidence, Technical Readability, and Discoverability), the specific checks costing the page points, an AI crawler access check, and a prioritized list of fixes, each with the concrete edit and the score points it can recover. A finding can be promoted into the Action Hub as a task; when your team publishes the fix, SolCrys re-audits the page and shows which checks recovered. This guide walks through the report section by section, how to read it, and what it deliberately doesn't cover.

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Questions this guide answers

  • What's in a SolCrys AEO content audit?
  • How do I read an AEO content audit report?
  • What does an AEO content audit check on a page?
  • How do I verify that a content audit fix worked?
  • What's NOT in an AEO content audit?

Direct answer

A Content Audit answers one question about one page: what on this page makes it harder for an answer engine to retrieve, understand, and cite, and what exact change would fix it? It reads the page the way a crawler does, runs a fixed set of checks, scores the result against a rubric weighted for the page's type, and turns every failed or partial check into a specific edit with the score points it can recover.

It is a diagnostic for a page, not a measurement of your brand. It doesn't ask ChatGPT or any other engine anything; that is what your tracked prompts do. The two meet in the Action Hub: the audit tells you what to fix, and the prompt set shows whether answers changed after you fixed it.

Content Audit or free AI visibility audit?

Two SolCrys products use the word audit, and they answer different questions.

  • The free AI visibility audit at app.solcrys.com/audit is a one-time snapshot of your brand: it runs 10 buyer-intent prompts on ChatGPT and shows whether the answers mention you. It is self-serve, takes about 5 minutes, and needs email verification and no credit card.
  • The Content Audit described on this page evaluates a specific page or draft. It is included on every plan, Free among them, with monthly allowances by tier.

How to run one

From a workspace, open Content Audit and choose Audit a Page. For a published page, choose Live Webpage and Single page, enter the full URL, and leave the page template on Auto-detect unless the detected type is wrong; the template decides how the checks are weighted. For content that isn't live yet, choose Draft Content and upload or paste it, so structural problems are caught before publication.

Broader Whole site and Sitemap options appear on plans that include them; on the Custom plan, Content Audits run full-site across your domain. When a run completes, open the report; Export PDF gives you a shareable copy for a developer, an agency, or a stakeholder who doesn't use SolCrys.

What the report contains

Every single-page report has the same structure: a score, the checks behind it, the fixes ranked by what they recover, an AI crawler access check, and, when Corporate Context is set, a brand-alignment read.

The score and its 4 categories

The overall score runs from 0 to 100 and is a weighted average of 4 category scores: Content Strength, Trust & Evidence, Technical Readability, and Discoverability. Weights depend on the detected page type, because a homepage, a product page, a documentation page, a press release, and a comparison listicle earn citations for different reasons. Bands run Excellent (85–100), Good (70–84), Needs Work (50–69), Poor (25–49), and Critical (0–24).

The report prints its formula. A category with nothing to evaluate on a page is shown as Not scored rather than as a zero, and the footnote states how the remaining weights were renormalized.

The checks

Each category is a set of named checks, each scored pass, partial, fail, or not applicable, with the evidence found on the page. Some are deterministic parses of the HTML; others are graded by a model against the page text. Representative checks by category:

  • Content Strength: a direct answer up front, heading hierarchy, content depth, key numbers in tables, lists, and headings, terms defined on first mention, comparison table quality, and original value.
  • Trust & Evidence: a visible author byline and author markup, expert quotes or third-party validation, statistics and data density, external citation quality, source attribution, and content freshness.
  • Technical Readability: JSON-LD present, a schema type that matches the content, schema completeness, content visible without JavaScript, and inline script weight.
  • Discoverability: title and meta description, canonical URL, internal links, Open Graph tags, a publish date in metadata, indexing and snippet eligibility, sitemap inclusion, and whether the URL matches the topic.

The prioritized fixes

Failed and partial checks are grouped into fixes and ranked. Each fix states what to change and why it matters, what it affects, an impact and effort estimate, and a current-versus-update table that sets what the page has now next to what it should have. Where the fix is code, such as a JSON-LD block, a canonical tag, or a meta description, the report includes an example to adapt and notes for your developer.

Each fix also shows the overall-score points it can recover: the check's missing points, weighted by its category's share of the score, on the same 0–100 scale as the headline number. That is what lets a team pick the 3 fixes that close most of the gap instead of working the list top to bottom.

AI Bot Check

For live pages, a separate tab checks whether major AI crawlers can reach the page: whether robots.txt allows each bot and whether the server returns the page to it, reported as OK, Blocked, or Degraded. If crawlers are blocked, the report says so up front. Fix access first; no on-page edit helps with a crawler that can't fetch the page.

Brand alignment

When your organization has Corporate Context set, the report ends with a brand-alignment read: how many of your positioning pillars the page covers, whether it uses your own product terms or generic substitutes, and whether its claims match your approved facts.

From finding to fix to re-audit

A finding is only useful if someone owns the fix. Add to Actions promotes it into the Action Hub as a task, with the audit evidence snapshotted onto it. Each finding maps to exactly one tracked task, so the same problem doesn't pile up as duplicates across re-runs.

Your team makes the change in your CMS; SolCrys never edits or publishes the page. When the task is marked published in the dashboard, SolCrys re-audits the same page automatically, and anyone with edit access can re-audit again from the task. The task's Impact tab then shows the page's score before and after, how many of the task's checks recovered, and a per-check before-and-after. A re-audit is a new audit run, so the same plan limits apply.

Two rules keep the recovery honest. It is scoped to the checks the task was about, so an unrelated edit elsewhere on the page isn't credited to the fix. And if the original audit run has been deleted, the card reports no recovery rather than comparing against a baseline it no longer has.

Recovery shows that the page now passes checks it used to fail. It does not show that answer engines changed what they say. For that, the same task tracks whether answers on your measured prompts start citing the page, and your prompt set keeps running on the same engines; read both as observations, not proof of cause.

How to read the score

The score measures a page against a rubric. It is not a citation count and not a forecast. A page scoring 90 can go uncited when engines prefer third-party sources for that question, and a page scoring 60 can be cited because it is the only one that answers it. Use the score to find fixable defects, and use the prompt set to find out whether fixing them mattered.

Read the checks engine by engine, too. Google says optimizing for its generative AI features is still SEO: AI Overviews and AI Mode draw on Google's Search index and ranking systems, there is no special AI schema, llms.txt isn't used, and content doesn't need to be chunked for them. For Google's surfaces, the checks that matter most are the SEO foundations the audit covers, such as indexing, canonical URLs, content that renders without JavaScript, and structured data that matches what is visible on the page. Passage-level structure, like a direct answer up front and key numbers in a table, matters more for retrieval-based engines such as ChatGPT Search and Perplexity, which lift passages from the pages they fetch.

Finally, model-graded checks are not perfectly repeatable, so treat a 1- or 2-point move in the headline score as noise and look at which checks changed status.

What's not in a Content Audit

Four things the audit deliberately doesn't do:

  • Not a visibility measurement. The audit doesn't query any answer engine. Whether engines mention or cite you comes from your tracked prompts.
  • Not a full SEO audit. It checks the SEO foundations that affect how engines read a page, such as indexing, canonicals, and sitemap inclusion, but not backlinks, rankings, or site-wide performance.
  • Not an edit to your site. The audit and its fixes are guidance. Starting an audit or promoting a fix never changes or publishes your page.
  • Not a promise of citation. A higher score removes known obstacles; it doesn't make any engine cite the page.

How to get one

Every plan includes Content Audits: 1 a month on Free, 4 on Starter ($99 a month), 10 on Pro ($399 a month), and full-site audits across your domain on Custom (from $2,000 a month). Agency plans include 50 or 150 a month. Current allowances are on pricing, which is canonical if this page and it ever disagree.

The quickest way to see one on your own page is the Free plan: Start Free, verify your email, and use your monthly Content Audit on the page you most want cited. No credit card.

If your team works in Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor, the SolCrys MCP server exposes Content Audit reports and per-URL fix detail to your assistant, and an open-source Skill turns a finding into an apply-ready page fix. Details: SolCrys MCP and Skills.

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FAQ

How is a Content Audit different from the free AI visibility audit?

The free AI visibility audit is a one-time ChatGPT snapshot of your brand: 10 buyer-intent prompts, about 5 minutes, email verification, and no credit card. A Content Audit evaluates one page, or one draft, against a scored rubric and returns the fixes. The first tells you whether you show up; the second tells you what on a page to change.

What does "points recoverable" mean in a Content Audit?

It is the number of overall-score points a single fix can win back, on the same 0–100 scale as the headline score: the check's missing points, weighted by its category's share of the score. Use it to pick the few fixes that close most of the gap.

Can I audit a page before it's published?

Yes. Choose Draft Content and upload or paste the text. Draft audits score the content itself and skip the crawl and the AI Bot Check, since there is no live URL to fetch.

How do I know a fix worked?

Promote the finding to the Action Hub, publish the change, and mark the task published in the dashboard. SolCrys re-audits the same page and shows the score before and after and which of the task's checks recovered. That confirms the page changed. Whether AI answers changed shows up in your tracked prompts and the task's citation tracking, and neither proves cause on its own.

Does a higher Content Audit score mean AI engines will cite my page?

No. The score measures a page against a rubric; engines decide what to cite based on the question, the sources available, and their own retrieval. A higher score removes known obstacles, nothing more.

Can I audit my whole site?

On the Custom plan, Content Audits run full-site across your domain rather than one URL at a time. Other plans audit single pages and drafts within their monthly allowance. If you're new to the workflow, start with the one page you most want cited.

Will SolCrys change my page?

No. An audit produces guidance, and promoting a fix creates a task. Your team makes the edit in your CMS; SolCrys never edits or publishes your site.

Free ChatGPT visibility check

See where AI answers skip your brand — then fix it, free

Start a free workspace with your domain: 10 buyer-intent prompts through ChatGPT show where you are mentioned, cited, or skipped, and who gets recommended instead. A free content audit in the same workspace hands you the first fix to ship.

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