Audit in Staging · Fix Before Go-Live

Pre-Launch SEO Checklist — Catch SEO Issues Before They Cost You Months.

A staging-site SEO audit by senior experts. URL patterns, internal linking, canonical logic, content mapping, schema baseline, indexation rules — reviewed against your dev team's build BEFORE go-live, when fixes cost hours instead of months. $497, 5-7 days, money-back guarantee.

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Get My Pre-Launch Audit → ✓ Money-back guarantee · 5-7 days · $497 fixed price

TapasSEO's Pre-Launch SEO Audit for New Builds is a staging-site audit by Leverage (20+ years, 50+ countries). URL pattern review, internal-linking audit, canonical logic, content-to-intent mapping, schema baseline, indexation rules, redirect plan (if migrating), and a pre-launch QA checklist your dev team runs before go-live. The point: catch the structural issues that take months to fix once Google has indexed everything — while they still cost hours of dev time. $497, 5-7 business days, money-back guarantee.

Scope: This service is priced and delivered for sites up to 100 URLs. For larger sites, request a custom quote →
Why Audit in Staging

Same Issues. Vastly Different Cost.

The SEO mistakes baked into a launch are the same ones that take 3-6 months to recover from once they ship.

Caught in staging

Hours of dev time

Wrong URL pattern? Change the route file. Missing canonical? Add it to the template. Broken hreflang? Fix one config line. None of this affects rankings because nothing is indexed yet.

Caught after launch

3-6 months of recovery

Same fixes, but now you need redirects from the wrong URLs Google indexed, you wait for re-crawls, you eat ranking volatility, and you explain to leadership why traffic crashed in week 2.

Everything You Receive

Inside Your Pre-Launch SEO Audit.

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URL pattern review

Slug structure, consistency across templates, parameter handling, depth, trailing-slash policy, lowercase enforcement.

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Internal-linking audit

Orphan detection, hub-and-spoke validation, navigation depth, breadcrumb logic, contextual link patterns. All before you have content to fix.

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Canonical logic

Self-referencing canonicals, parameter URL canonicals, paginated handling, cross-domain canonical decisions. Verified per page type.

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Content-to-intent mapping

Every planned URL mapped to target query + intent. Duplicate-intent URLs flagged. Missing intent gaps surfaced before content is written.

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Schema baseline check

Organization, WebSite, WebPage, BreadcrumbList plus content-type schema (Article, Product, FAQPage, etc.) verified per template.

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Indexation rules

noindex on the right pages (search results, parameter URLs, staging environment), index on the right ones. Sitemap-vs-actual diff.

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Redirect plan (if migrating)

If this is a re-platform or domain change: full source-to-target redirect map with priority pages flagged.

Pre-launch QA checklist

The 25-30 point gate your dev team runs the day before go-live. If anything fails, ship is delayed until it passes.

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20-25 page PDF + 30-min walkthrough

Designed PDF audit plus a recorded walkthrough so your dev + content teams understand every finding.

Investment

One Price. 5-7 Days. Done.

Pre-Launch SEO Audit for New Builds

Staging-site audit before go-live (sites ≤100 URLs)

$497

One-time. 5-7 business days. Money-back guarantee.

  • URL pattern review
  • Internal-linking audit
  • Canonical logic verification
  • Content-to-intent mapping
  • Schema baseline check
  • Indexation rules
  • Redirect plan (if migrating)
  • Pre-launch QA checklist (25-30 point)
  • 20-25 page PDF audit
  • 30-minute walkthrough call
  • Money-back guarantee
Get My Pre-Launch Audit — $497

🔒 Full refund if the audit doesn’t surface meaningful pre-launch fixes.

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Money-back guarantee

If the audit doesn’t surface meaningful pre-launch fixes, you get a full refund.

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Senior SEO experts only

Reviewed and finalized by senior specialists from the Leverage team — the same people who audit launches for enterprise clients.

5-7 day SLA

You order, we deliver in 5-7 business days. Fixed timeline, fixed price.

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Dev-ready findings

Every finding annotated with the fix, the responsible role, and the relative priority. Your team starts Monday.

Built by Leverage

Pre-Launch Audits, By People Who’ve Cleaned Up After Bad Ones.

TapasSEO is the productized arm of Leverage, a boutique SEO consultancy with 20+ years of experience across 50+ countries and 80+ industries. We have audited launches and recovered the launches that didn’t get audited — the patterns repeat.

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FAQ

Quick Answers

Why audit before launch?

Most SEO mistakes baked in at launch (wrong URL patterns, broken canonical logic, missing schema, internal-linking gaps, indexation problems) cost months to fix once the site is live and Google has indexed everything. Catching them in staging means a few hours of dev work instead of a 3-6 month recovery — and avoids the credibility hit of launching with rankings tanking from day one.

What does the audit cover?

URL pattern review (clean slugs, consistent structure, parameter handling), internal-linking audit (orphan detection, hub-and-spoke validation), canonical logic (self-referencing canonicals, parameter URLs, paginated handling), content mapping (every page mapped to intent + target query), schema baseline check (Org, WebSite, WebPage, BreadcrumbList, plus content-type schema), indexation rules (noindex on the right pages), redirect plan (if migrating), and a pre-launch QA checklist your dev team runs before go-live.

How is this different from the Technical SEO Starter Setup?

The Technical SEO Starter Setup ($497) is implementation — we deploy the sitemap, robots.txt, schema, etc. for you. This Pre-Launch Audit is diagnostic — we audit your dev team's staging site against the SEO foundation it needs and prescribe what to fix BEFORE go-live. Many clients do the audit first to validate the build, then ship the implementation themselves; others bundle both.

Can you audit before content is finalized?

Yes — best to audit when structure is locked but content is still draft. We catch URL/linking/schema/indexation issues that are hard to change once content lives at fixed URLs. Some content recommendations come out of the audit too (intent mapping, missing pages, duplicate-intent pages) but the structural fixes are the highest-leverage outputs.

What if I am not satisfied?

Full refund, no questions asked. Money-back guarantee on every TapasSEO service.

Do you implement, or do I implement?

You receive the full deliverable from senior consultants — the audit, blueprint, plan, or instructions for your team to execute. Your team (or your dev) handles implementation. If you want hands-on implementation, upgrade to Leverage → — they will quote you a custom price for done-for-you delivery.

Catch SEO Issues Before They Cost You Months.

URL patterns. Internal linking. Canonicals. Content mapping. Schema. Indexation. Redirect plan. Pre-launch QA checklist. 5-7 business days. $497 once.

Get My Pre-Launch Audit — $497

One-time payment · 5-7 business days · Money-back guarantee

TapasSEO team — By Leverage | 20+ years SEO & digital marketing across 50+ countries and 80+ industries

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