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title: SEO Audit Checklist
description: Download the 2026 SEO Audit Checklist featuring 63 essential checks for AI readiness, technical SEO, and UK compliance.
---

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# The 2026 SEO Audit Checklist 63 Checks. 7 Categories. AI-Ready.

Most SEO checklists skip what matters in 2026 — AI/AEO readiness, GDPR cookie compliance, and anything UK-specific. Ours doesn't.

| ✓ | **Technical SEO & Core Web Vitals** — crawlability, indexation, LCP, INP, CLS |
| --- | --- |
| ✓ | **On-Page, Content & Off-Page** — title tags, E-E-A-T, backlink quality, cannibalisation |
| ✓ | **AI/AEO Readiness** — schema for AI, crawler access, citation monitoring, LLMs.txt |
| ✓ | **UK-Specific Checks** — GDPR/PECR cookies, Consent Mode v2, hreflang, .co.uk strategy |

**You'll get two files:** an interactive Excel checklist with auto-scoring + a branded PDF for printing or sharing with your team.

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