Commercial Audit

For service pages, city pages and listings. See what the buyer checks before ordering, whether your page answers it with something concrete, and which of your claims have proof next to them — the evidence that reads as expertise to Google and to AI answers.

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What keyword are you selling for?
We pull the live top 5 — directories included, if that's who ranks.
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Which page of yours competes?
A published URL of the page you sell from.
Compare against specific pages instead of the live top
Empty = the live top 5. Filled in = a private benchmark against pages you choose; the "commercial SERP" verdict then describes your list, not Google's.
Cost: 35 credits per audit

What the buyer checks — and whether you answer it

Timeline, pricing model, who does the work, deliverables — each marked must-have, optional or nobody-has-it against the top 5, with a check whether your answer is concrete (a number, a format, a name) or just words.

Where the page stops selling

Paragraph by paragraph, see where a service page drifts into an article. Strike paragraphs out and watch the balance move — no rewrites pushed, no credits spent.

Which claims have proof next to them

"Expert", "leading", "15 years" are claims. We list the ones with nothing backing them on the page — no case, number, name or date. Proof is what reads as expertise to Google and to AI answers.

Your report

1 · Entity core
What the buyer checks — must-have, everyone-has, nobody-has

Two coordinate systems on one page. The buyer tree lists what someone evaluates before ordering — timeline, deliverables, pricing model, who does the work, platform segments. The SERP shows what the top already says. Where they agree it's a must-have; what only the SERP repeats is optional consensus; what neither covers is your whitespace. Concreteness is checked per branch: tools, formats, numbers — present or not. No density, no score.

3 · Evidence
Claims, proof, names and dates

Every "expert", "leading", "years of experience" is a claim. We look for a passage on the same page that actually entails it — a case with numbers, a named process, a date. Unsupported claims are listed, not scored. Alongside: whether your team has names and roles, whether the page carries time markers, and whether the first screen states the offer, a price anchor, a fact and an action.

Proof content
Who stands behind it
Time markers
First screen (first 20% of the text)
CTA ladder
Parity with the top

No worse on the table: blocks, schema depth, card attributes — each weighted by how many of the ranking pages have it. This used to be the whole report; now it's the floor, not the goal.

Feature Matrix

Rows sorted by how many of the top have the feature. A feature 4 of 5 competitors share is table stakes; a feature only you have is your edge.

Topic relevance

Is your page inside the semantic field of this SERP? Zones are calibrated on the top's own passages — never fixed thresholds.

What this audit can't move

This tool measures your page. For the local pack, most of the weight sits off the page — and for AI answers the balance flips back toward on-page. Both columns below are survey weights, not our invention.

LLM answers to commercial queries are decided elsewhere. Assistants cite the vendor's own site in roughly 12% of cases; for "which X should I pick" prompts they lean on third-party listicles almost every time. The check below is the only honest one this page can run — the rest belongs to AI SERP Tracker.

Local Pack / Maps

Whitespark Local Search Ranking Factors 2026
32%
Google Business Profile
20%
Reviews
~19%
On-page (this audit)
9%
Behavioral

AI Overviews / AI Mode visibility

Same survey, AI-visibility weighting
~24%
On-page (this audit) — top factor
~12%
Google Business Profile

For being cited in AI answers, on-page rises to the top slot — the work this audit points at weighs roughly twice what it does in Maps.

See it in action

Commercial Audit report — entity core (must-have, consensus, whitespace), intent noise by paragraph, claims with evidence, and parity with the top 5

What we don't do

×Don't invent scores or weights

No page score, no readiness percentage. A feature's weight is how many of the top 5 have it; claims are a list with a count. If a number can't be traced to the SERP or your page, it isn't in the report.

×Don't promise rankings or AI answers

For local queries most of the weight sits in your Business Profile and reviews — off the page. For "which provider" prompts, assistants quote listicles, not you. We say so and check only what this page can honestly move.

×Don't ask you to rewrite boilerplate

"Call us today" may sound like everyone else's. Uniqueness is measured only on proof — cases, numbers, process — never as a keyword-density percentage.

×Don't score your design

No screenshot beauty contests. Filters, calculators and maps count as user value the top also offers — not as "Google counts your widgets", because it doesn't. Layout is read as placement of content, not polish.