Priority website check: what are the biggest SEO problems on my website?
A priority website check in Novaverb: crawl the site you own, grade only what the evidence supports, and move from prioritized findings to the exact affected pages, then verify with a fresh crawl.
Start with a fresh owned-site crawl and prioritize only evidence-backed problems that open to the exact affected pages.
What is a priority website check, and why start with one?
A priority website check is the first honest look at a site you own: a fresh crawl of the pages you are responsible for, graded only on the checks the captured evidence supports, ordered by severity, and opened to the exact affected pages. You start with one because every later decision depends on knowing which problems are real.
What are the signs you need a priority website check?
The signs you need a priority website check are a long list and no order: a report with hundreds of issues, a tool that colors the site red without naming a page, and a team about to spend a month on the problem that was easiest to describe rather than the one the evidence rates as severe.
- Owned project crawl evidence
- Prioritized findings and affected page sets
- Fresh-crawl verification after a change
Who is a priority website check for?
A priority website check is for website owners who want to know what is wrong before they pay anyone, small teams with one person doing search, and new search practitioners who need the first list to come from evidence rather than from a checklist written for a different site. It is built to be the first thing you run.
What does skipping a priority website check cost you?
Skipping a priority website check costs the order of everything that follows. Without it, effort goes to the loudest problem instead of the most severe one, and a month later nobody can say whether anything improved because nothing was measured first. The check is a crawl and an audit. The alternative is guessing with a budget.
Which approach makes a priority website check trustworthy?
The approach that makes a priority website check trustworthy opens the owned workspace, runs the project crawl, and works from the prioritized findings into the exact affected pages. After a change, a fresh crawl is run so the new observation, not an assumption, determines whether the finding is resolved. Only checks for which the required evidence exists are graded.
How does the priority website check workflow run, step by step?
The priority website check workflow runs in three steps. Open the owned workspace: choose the project. Capture the current state: run the project crawl and grade only the checks for which the required evidence exists. Fix and verify: open the highest-priority affected pages, make the change and use a fresh crawl to verify the new state.
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Open the owned workspace
Choose the customer project so every finding and action stays attached to the correct website.
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Capture the current state
Run the project crawl and grade only the checks for which the required evidence exists.
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Fix and verify
Open the highest-priority affected pages, make the change and use a fresh crawl to verify the new state.
Which Novaverb systems run the priority website check?
Two Novaverb systems run the priority website check from one crawl. Site Health grades the captured pages, orders findings by severity and opens a fix-first queue on the page at fault. Crawl Explorer holds every captured URL with its status, canonical, directives, depth and links, so any finding can be opened to the pages and fields behind it.
What evidence does a priority website check need?
A priority website check needs owned-project crawl evidence, nothing else to begin: the pages the crawl captured within scope, the fields it retrieved for each, and the criteria the audit could therefore grade. Prioritized findings and their affected page sets come from that, and fresh-crawl verification after a change is the evidence that a fix worked.
Where should you start a priority website check?
Start a priority website check by choosing the owned project and running a fresh crawl before making any site-wide decision. Read the severity-ordered queue from the top, open the first finding to its affected pages, and resist the pull of the finding with the largest count. Severity, not volume, is what the queue is ordered by.
Choose the owned project and run a fresh crawl before making site-wide decisions.
How do you verify a priority website check fix?
A priority website check fix is verified by running a fresh crawl and letting the same criterion grade the new state. The finding updates when the fresh evidence is available, and a page that regressed is caught by the check that found it first. A finding is never closed because someone said the fix was deployed.
What does the priority website check not assume?
The priority website check reports only the pages and signals captured within the owned project crawl scope. It does not infer inaccessible pages or present crawler observations as a search engine's private index state, so a page the crawl could not reach is reported as not reached and a page it graded is reported for what was measured.
The workflow reports only the pages and signals captured within the project crawl scope; it does not infer inaccessible pages.
What changes after a priority website check?
After a priority website check, the site's problems have an order and each has its pages. The team works the queue from the most severe finding down, engineers receive affected-page lists, fixes are confirmed by the next crawl, and the health percentage becomes a number computed from graded checks with a history, so the next month's check is a comparison.
What does a priority website check finding look like in practice?
In practice a priority website check finding reads like this: the queue opens on 86 pages whose canonical points to a 404, rated severe, above 1,900 pages with a description over the displayed length, rated low. The severe finding is fixed, the next crawl shows the count at zero, and only then does the team turn to the descriptions.
Which plan covers the priority website check?
The priority website check is covered from the Free plan, because Site Health and Crawl Explorer are included there and a first crawl needs no card. Tiers differ in URLs per crawl, audits and data credits a month, seats, workspaces and how much audit history stays open. The severity ordering and fresh-crawl verification behave the same on every plan.
How much does a priority website check cost with Novaverb?
A priority website check costs what your plan costs. Nothing is licensed separately, and the Free plan includes it. Plans are priced on scale, URLs per crawl, audits and data credits a month, seats, workspaces and history depth, and the current amounts are on the pricing page, read from one source so this page never quotes a stale number.
How do you begin a priority website check today?
Begin a priority website check today by creating a free workspace, adding the site you own as a project and running a crawl; Site Health grades it and opens the queue on the most severe finding with its affected pages. Fix that one, re-crawl, and you have run the check the way it is meant to be run.
Which related solutions continue from the priority website check?
The priority website check continues into related solutions that go deeper on what it found. The technical site audit works the same crawl by decision through focused workbenches; content discoverability follows the pages the check shows as unreachable; and indexing health separates the technical risks from the indexing state Google records.
Best practices for a priority website check
The best practices for a priority website check are about restraint. Run it on the site you own. Work the queue by severity and ignore the size of a count until the severe items are closed. Open the affected pages before writing a ticket. Verify with a crawl, not with a message that says the fix went live.
- Run the check on the site you own, before you plan anything
- Work the queue by severity; a large count is not a severe problem
- Open the affected pages before you write the ticket
- Fix one template, re-crawl, then move to the next finding
- Verify with the next crawl, never with a message that the fix shipped
Frequently asked questions about the priority website check
These are the questions owners ask before running a priority website check: what it actually grades, how it differs from a single-URL free tool, how long it takes, whether anything is fixed automatically, and how often it should be repeated. Each answer names the evidence the check reads.
What does a priority website check actually check?
The pages captured in a crawl of the site you own, graded against the NovaBrain SEO and AEO criteria the evidence supports: status and redirects, canonicals and indexability, titles, descriptions and headings, structured data and answer readiness among them. Criteria the crawl could not measure are counted as needing evidence, not as passes.
How is the priority website check different from a free website SEO checker?
The free checker reads one URL and reports what that page returned. The priority website check crawls the site you own, grades every captured page, orders the findings by severity and opens each to its affected pages, then verifies fixes on a fresh crawl. One answers a question about a page. The other produces a work list for a site.
How long does a priority website check take?
As long as the crawl of the site within your plan's URL limit, after which the audit grades the captured pages and the queue is ready. Working the queue is the longer part, and the check is designed to be re-run after each batch of fixes so the time spent is confirmed by new evidence rather than assumed.
Does the priority website check fix problems for me?
No. It shows the captured evidence, the criterion behind each finding, available guidance and an AI fix draft only where that action and a model are configured. You change your site; the next crawl re-runs the same criterion and shows whether the finding closed.
Can I run a priority website check on a competitor's site?
The check is built for a site you own: the workspace, the crawl scope and the fixes all assume you can act on the pages. Free tools on Novaverb answer single-URL questions about any public page; the priority website check is the owned-project workflow, which is what makes its verification step possible.
How often should I repeat the priority website check?
After each batch of fixes and on a regular crawl cadence otherwise. Every crawl is a timestamped record and every audit keeps its history, so a repeat is a comparison: findings that closed, findings that regressed and new ones from new pages, each with its affected pages, rather than a fresh list that forgets the last one.
Turn the priority website check into the next action you can verify
Turn the priority website check into the next action you can verify: create a free workspace, crawl the site you own and open the most severe finding to its pages. Fix it, run a fresh crawl and let the new observation, not an assumption, say the problem is gone.