How PublisherAudit works

Paste your URL → automated scan across 4 dimensions → integrated score + prioritized action plan. Total time: 60 seconds.

1. Paste your URL

Enter your content site's root URL (or any specific page URL for per-page diagnosis). PublisherAudit handles redirects, internationalized domains, and trailing-slash variants automatically.

2. The 4-dimension scan

AI-citation audit (10-characteristic checklist)

Scores your site against 10 specific characteristics that determine whether AI engines cite you: accessibility (static HTML, no JS-gated content), usefulness, recognizable brand entity, extractable quote-ready headings, consistency, corroboration (cross-references on Reddit, Wikipedia, LinkedIn), credibility (E-E-A-T signals), differentiation, freshness, and transactability.

AdSense compliance audit (7-gate)

The same criteria Google reviewers apply, automated:

1. Sitemap-to-substantive ratio: 50%+ of indexable URLs are substantive
2. Per-page substance: ≥250 unique words, ≥3 distinct facts per page
3. Doorway-pattern detection: no template-driven scale without unique data
4. Mandatory editorial pages: /about, /contact, /privacy, /terms all present
5. Ad density: <40% of viewport, no above-fold takeover
6. UX signals: mobile-perfect 375px render, Core Web Vitals in Good
7. Traffic floor: ≥10 substantive pages with measurable traffic

Core Web Vitals audit

Measures LCP (largest contentful paint), INP (interaction to next paint), CLS (cumulative layout shift), and TTFB (time to first byte) under real-world conditions. Maps to Google's Page Experience ranking signal.

Schema honesty audit

Validates Schema.org structured data syntax + flags structured-data abuse patterns: headlines encoded as recommendations (e.g. "AAPL SELL signal"), mismatched author/date fields, hidden-element schema, and Article schema that doesn't match visible page content.

3. Get your score

Each dimension scores 0-100. Overall score is the geometric mean × 10 (so one weak dimension drags the total — you can't acquire your way out of a schema-dishonesty hole).

4. Get your action plan

Every gap surfaces as a specific, prioritized recommendation: which file to edit, what to add, what to remove. No vague "improve your content" advice — concrete actions per fix.

What PublisherAudit does NOT do

• No content-quality scoring. We audit signals (substance, accessibility, schema). Whether content is good is a human-editorial call.
• No automatic remediation. Pro tier surfaces fixes; you apply them. (Future Fleet tier may add brain-doable auto-fixes.)
• No SEO keyword research / rank tracking. Tools like Ahrefs / Semrush cover that. We focus on technical readiness instead.

Why this combined approach

Running 4 separate tools (one for AI citation, one for AdSense, one for Web Vitals, one for schema) creates tool-fatigue and missed cross-dimensional issues. Many fixes touch multiple dimensions at once — combining the audit catches those compound wins.

Run your first audit at /audit.