A free cannabis SEO audit, done by a person, not a script
Send your domain and what you are seeing. You get a written read on what is wrong, what it is likely costing you, and the order I would fix it in. If the answer is that you do not need to hire anyone, that is what it will say.
What the audit actually checks
These are the same checks that open a paid engagement. Nothing is held back for the version you pay for, because a diagnosis you cannot verify is worth nothing to either of us.
What Google actually renders
Your menu, your age gate, and your location pages fetched the way a crawler receives them rather than the way your browser draws them. This is where most cannabis sites are losing before anything else is considered.
Location page similarity across the chain
How close your store pages are to each other once navigation and footer are stripped out, and whether that set sits in the band that precedes a scaled content action.
Index coverage against reality
What is indexed, what is not, and what is indexed that should never have been. Menu filters generating thousands of near duplicate URLs is the usual finding.
Business Profile health, per location
Categories, completeness, photo evidence, duplicate listings, and the specific settings that get cannabis listings pulled. Checked store by store, not sampled.
Compliance exposure in published copy
Health claims, potency promotion, youth appeal, and inducement language across your pages, titles, and profile descriptions. Anything risky is flagged with the reason rather than just marked.
Manual action and penalty status
Whether an action is live, and if not, whether the pattern that causes one is already present. This changes the whole shape of what should happen next, so it gets checked first.
Keyword overlap between your own stores
Where nearby branches are competing with each other, which is invisible in a traffic report and expensive in a metro where you run several locations.
What it is costing you
A grounded estimate of the visibility being lost, based on the searches you should be appearing for and are not. Ranges rather than invented precision.
Four steps, no sales process
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Step 1 Two minutes
You send the domain
The domain, the states you operate in, roughly how many stores, and what you are seeing. If you have Search Console access to share, the audit gets considerably sharper, but it is not required.
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Step 2 Two to four days
I go through the site properly
Not an automated report with your logo on it. The same checks I run at the start of a paid engagement, done by hand, on your actual site.
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Step 3 Yours to keep
You get the findings in writing
What is wrong, why it matters, and the order I would fix it in. Written so your developer can act on the technical parts without me in the room.
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Step 4 Optional
We talk it through, or you do not
A call if you want one. If you would rather take the document and hand it to your own team, that is a perfectly good outcome and there is no follow up sequence waiting for you.
Who this is worth doing for
The audit takes real hours, so it is worth being honest about where it helps and where it will waste your time. Nobody is turned away, but you deserve to know before you fill anything in.
- You run a licensed dispensary or a chain
- Traffic or map rankings have fallen and nobody can say why
- You have a manual action, or suspect one is coming
- You are about to invest in content and want the foundation checked first
- You are a CBD brand competing on product searches
- You want a quote without anyone looking at the site
- You are hoping for a way to run cannabis ads on Google
- You want guaranteed rankings, which nobody can offer
- The site is not built yet, in which case talk to me before it is
Send the details
The more context you give, the more specific the findings. If you are not sure what to include, the domain and one sentence about what you are seeing is enough to start.
- Replies usually within one business day
- No mailing list, no drip sequence
- Findings are yours to keep either way
Questions about the free audit
Run the Checks yourself first
The audit is more useful when you already know what the tools found. Nothing here needs an email address.
Ready to send the domain?
Include the states you operate in and anything you have already noticed. The more context, the more useful the read.
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