How to Check Your Website SEO for Free

To check your website’s SEO for free, the first step is to actually search for your company or service name in a search engine and see whether you appear and how you’re shown. To grasp things like your titles and page speed all at once, you can enter your URL into an SEO diagnosis tool.

I’m Naohiro Hayashi, creator of Soreda!. I built an SEO diagnosis tool myself and have run it, and from that experience I’ll lay out checks anyone can do today, even without SEO know-how. A note first: what a diagnosis reveals is your current state and hints for improvement — not a guarantee of search rankings. Read it on that footing.

Your website’s SEO starts with knowing where you stand

Rather than jumping straight to tactics, it’s more efficient to start by diagnosing where your site stands. Spreading yourself thin without knowing what’s weak makes results hard to see, and it’s easy to spend weeks fixing things that were never the problem.

You usually can’t spot the cause of not being found on your own

Your own site is familiar to the person who built it. That’s exactly why you often can’t spot the reason you’re not found in search. Problems you can’t see from the inside — how your titles are written, how slowly pages load — tend to hide there.

Diagnose first, before random fixes

Random fixes like “just add more articles” or “tweak things by feel” tend to burn effort without results. Diagnosing your current state and pinpointing the weak spots first is the far shorter path. Like checking what’s wrong before treating it, SEO too is best begun by measuring where you stand. For an owner who can’t put someone full-time on SEO, that focus is what makes limited time count.

The first free SEO checks you can do

The first free SEO checks are searching for yourself and confirming the basics yourself. They cost nothing and you can start today.

Actually search for your company and service name

First, search a search engine for your company name, service name, and the products you handle. See whether your site appears, at what rank, and how the description shows. Even this gives you clues about where you stand.

The basic check items

Alongside that, confirm the basics yourself. Does each page have a clear title? Is a description (meta description) set? Is it easy to view on a smartphone? Are pages slow to load? These four can be confirmed without specialist knowledge, and they form the foundation of SEO. None of them require code — you can judge most of them just by viewing your own pages on a phone.

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Analyze it all at once with an SEO diagnosis tool

Grasping the whole picture by hand is hard work. When you want to know your site’s weak points all at once, you can enter your URL into an SEO diagnosis tool.

Enter a URL to score eight angles

Soreda!‘s SEO diagnosis takes a URL and scores your current state from several angles — title, meta description, structured data, internal links, page speed, and more. Rather than by gut feel, you can grasp concretely how well each is in place.

See what’s weak and where to start

A diagnosis doesn’t just give a score — it shows what’s weak and where to begin. How to find the reasons you don’t rank is covered in Why Your Site Is Not Ranking and How to Find Out.

FAQ

Q. How much can I learn for free? A. You can grasp how you appear in search and the basics — title, description, mobile-friendliness, page speed — with the free manual check. A diagnosis tool helps when you want your weak points all at once.

Q. Will a diagnosis definitely get me ranking? A. No. A diagnosis reveals your current state and guidance for improvement. Rankings are decided by Google’s algorithm and can’t be guaranteed by any tool or service.

Q. Do I need specialist knowledge? A. No. The diagnosis tool just takes a URL and presents SEO angles as a score, with explanations for the jargon, so a first-timer can read the results without a background in SEO.

Q. How much does it cost? A. SEO diagnosis is ticket-based, counted per run. See the official site for current details.

How your site appears in search is something you won’t know until you look. Start with the free check — search for yourself — and when you want to know your weak points all at once, use a diagnosis tool. Knowing where you stand is the sure starting point for SEO improvement.

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