Frequently Asked Questions

Agency is currently a private beta for established multi-client teams. Contact TrafficBud before relying on white-label deliverables or client-seat workflows.

It's a single, no-subscription purchase: TrafficBud runs a full audit plus a sampled crawl of up to 50 pages on your site, then builds one complete prioritized 90-day plan. You get PDF and AI-agent downloads to hand to a webmaster or AI assistant — no recurring charge.

The crawler follows internal links up to the per-run limit for your plan: 10 pages on Free, 50 on Starter, 100 on Growth, and 200 on Agency or Managed. Paid plans also support scheduled weekly crawls, subject to each plan's schedule limit.

A content brief is an AI-generated outline for a new or refreshed page, built around a keyword cluster from your site. It is designed to hand directly to a writer or an AI writing assistant so the resulting page targets the right intent and structure. Free plans include 1 brief per month; Starter includes 30; Growth includes 80; Agency includes 200.

Yes. TrafficBud groups your keyword research into topic clusters, then checks each cluster against what your site actually offers and automatically filters out clusters that are off-topic for your business. You can also manually dismiss any cluster that does not fit, and the clusters you keep feed directly into AI-generated content briefs.

The auto-brief is a scheduled SEO action plan that TrafficBud generates and emails to you on a monthly or weekly cadence. Starter plans get monthly delivery, while Growth adds a weekly option. Each run refreshes the site audit, crawl, Search Console and keyword data, sitemap check, and mobile check before building the plan, so old sitemap findings are not presented as current.

Yes. Paid plans include a one-click Google OAuth connection that pulls your Search Console performance data directly into TrafficBud. You can also upload a CSV export if you prefer not to connect your account.

TrafficBud checks your Search Console connection in the background and will email you if Google's authorization expires. Reconnecting takes one click from your dashboard and restores Search Console pulls, rank trend charts, and stronger auto-briefs.

Managed ($199/mo per site) starts with a fresh audit and 90-day plan, then TrafficBud's implementation team works through the highest-priority approved fixes each month and sends a progress report. Onboarding is a short form covering your site URL, platform, and a safe access method — TrafficBud never asks you to paste a password, and large redesigns or custom development are excluded.

Yes. TrafficBud runs an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that lets Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, and other MCP clients call TrafficBud's audit, keyword, and Search Console tools directly. Every tool is read-only — your assistant can see the data and suggest fixes, but it cannot change your website. Generate a personal API key from Dashboard > API Keys to connect it.

Yes. The AI Visibility checker at trafficbud.io/ai-visibility asks Perplexity and OpenAI's GPT-6 about your site with no account needed, and shows you exactly what came back. It is capped daily to keep it free for everyone, and if your domain was checked in the last 24 hours you will see that recent result. It is separate from the deeper AI Visibility check built into a full audit.

Yes. Look for the chat bubble on the site — it connects you with our support assistant, who can answer questions about plans, features, and how TrafficBud works. If you are signed in it can address you by name, but it cannot view your reports or billing details or make changes to your account.

Free includes one site. Starter covers up to three sites, Growth covers up to fifteen, and the private Agency beta covers up to fifty client sites.

Open the site's workspace from your dashboard and click Remove site. It leaves your sites list and frees up a tracked-site slot, while its past reports stay in your history. It stays removed unless you add it again or run a new audit on that domain.

Yes. Annual billing for Starter, Growth, and Agency is exactly ten times the monthly price, which gives two months free. Managed is billed monthly per site, and the 90-Day Action Plan is a one-time purchase.

Yes. You can cancel from your account settings at any time. Your current plan stays active through the end of the billing period, then your account automatically reverts to the Free plan. There is no long-term contract and no penalty for cancelling.

TrafficBud checks the practical things that commonly leak organic traffic: titles, meta descriptions, headings, thin content, canonical tags, indexability, internal links, image alt text, Open Graph tags, structured data, and response speed.

Yes. The free audit on the homepage checks any public URL — titles, meta, headings, schema, indexability, internal links, image alt text, and AI Visibility — with no account required. Create a free account to save reports, add a tracked site, run crawls, and access the full workspace.

No. TrafficBud is focused on fixing pages, not replacing every enterprise SEO database. It is meant to be simpler, cheaper, and more action-oriented for small businesses and agencies.

When you add a site to TrafficBud, you get a guided workspace with up to 14 screens covering the full SEO workflow: connecting Search Console and enabling auto-briefs, auditing pages and crawling the site, checking the sitemap, finding internal-link gaps, doing keyword research, building a content strategy, rewriting snippets, reviewing mobile compatibility and content quality, running a competitor intelligence check, generating an action plan, and tracking progress over time. You can work through screens in any order, skip ones that do not apply, and track progress with a completion bar at the top.

It crawls your site, groups pages by topic, and surfaces pairs of pages that mention the same subject but do not link to each other. The result is a specific list of anchor-text suggestions and placements you can add to strengthen topic authority and help search engines understand your site structure.

The sitemap audit discovers your XML sitemap, validates its structure and robots.txt registration, and samples up to 200 listed URLs for errors, redirects, noindex conflicts, and other crawl problems. It returns a score and a prioritised list of items that need attention.

Yes. Every plan includes a mobile compatibility check that reviews the page HTML for viewport settings, tap target sizes, font legibility, and other common mobile issues. Paid plans add a real phone-viewport screenshot so you can see exactly how the page looks at 375px, along with additional touch-target and rendering checks.

A content refresh report takes a specific page URL and a target search query, then identifies gaps between your current content and what searchers expect to find. It returns a prioritised checklist of sections to update, questions to answer, and headings to add or rework so the page better matches search intent.

Yes. Every audit now includes an AI Visibility score that checks whether AI answer engines can read and cite your pages. It inspects AI-crawler access in your robots.txt, whether your main content is visible without JavaScript, and whether your structured data includes entity and answer schema. Paid plans also run a live citation probe against real niche questions to show which sources AI currently cites and what you can do to earn a mention.

Yes. The schema generator fetches a page URL and produces ready-to-paste JSON-LD structured data. Supported types include FAQ, Article, Product, Local Business, Software Application, and Breadcrumb. It draws from the actual page content so the markup reflects what search engines will see, not a generic template.

TrafficBud uses deterministic checks first, then can use AI to turn findings into clearer recommendations and content-refresh ideas where that adds value.

It finds real competing pages from organic search results for your site, extracts the strategy patterns they use — things like visible pricing, social proof, role-based offers, or lead-intake funnels — and compares them against your page. The output is a specific ranked task list: which patterns your competitors use that you are currently missing, and what to do about each one.

Yes. The content quality check scans a page for spelling mistakes and typos on all plans. Paid plans also run an AI grammar and style pass that flags awkward phrasing, passive constructions, and clarity issues. Results include a page score and an itemised list you can work through before publishing.

Yes. Once you connect Google Search Console, TrafficBud shows a weekly chart of your average Google position and impression count going back up to about 16 months. The chart lives in your site workspace and updates automatically — no manual exports needed.

TrafficBud analyses each keyword opportunity for potential impact, then generates a specific recommended fix: a revised title and meta description, content additions, or redirect guidance if the URL has stopped working. It uses the current page content and your site's actual product focus to make sure recommendations stay on-topic and accurate.

The action plan compiles findings from your audits, site crawl, Search Console data, and keyword research into a single ranked to-do list — critical fixes first, then high and medium-priority improvements. You can download it as a PDF to hand to a webmaster or as formatted AI-agent text to paste directly into any AI assistant for implementation help.

Paid plans include PDF and AI-agent text exports for supported saved reports. A purchased one-time 90-Day Action Plan also includes both downloads. Free-plan reports remain available in dashboard history but do not include these exports.

A progress report pulls together your recent audits, crawls, Search Console data, snippet and schema changes, and action-plan progress into one summary of what has improved and what to tackle next. You can generate one anytime from your dashboard, but most users run a fresh one about once a month to track momentum.

TrafficBud's software plans are read-only. The separate Managed plan can implement approved fixes through delegated access or send changes to your webmaster; it never asks you to paste a password into TrafficBud.

No. TrafficBud audits and crawls your public URLs without any code installed on your site. You can also connect Google Search Console via one-click OAuth (paid plans) or upload a CSV export — both work without installing anything.