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Frequently asked questions

Quick answers about audits, data sources, AI tools, privacy and billing.

General

What is BoostSEO?

BoostSEO is an online SEO and GEO audit tool. Enter a URL and it crawls your site, groups your keywords into topics, compares you with competitors and gives you a prioritised action plan to rank on Google and to be cited by AI assistants.

What is GEO (generative engine optimization)?

GEO is the practice of making your content easy for AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Copilot and Perplexity to find, understand, trust and quote. It builds on SEO: crawlable pages, clear structure, direct answers, data with sources and strong brand signals.

Is BoostSEO free?

Yes. You can run audits without an account (a partial report), and a free account unlocks the full report, more pages, keyword ideas, Search Console data and project history. Pro adds paid keyword and SERP data, competitors, AI Studio and much higher limits.

Audits

Do I need to install anything or verify my site?

No. Audits run in your browser through our secure fetch service. To use Google Search Console data you connect your Google account once — only read access is requested.

How many pages can you crawl?

Guests up to 10 pages per audit, free accounts 50 and Pro 500 (the administrator can change these limits). We crawl like a search engine: from your start URL, through internal links and your XML sitemap, respecting robots.txt.

Will the crawl slow down my website?

No. Requests are spread out and limited per host, and we identify ourselves with the BoostSEO-Audit user agent so you can recognise or block it.

Why are some pages missing or showing errors?

Pages behind logins, blocked by robots.txt or a firewall, or that need JavaScript to show content may be missed. The report lists blocked and failed URLs so you can check them.

Keywords & data

Where do keyword volumes and difficulty come from?

You choose the data source: on-page analysis (free), Google Autocomplete ideas (free), your own Google Search Console (free) or paid providers such as DataForSEO, Serper and SerpApi for Pro members. Paid answers are cached to keep costs low.

What is a keyword cluster?

A group of closely related search terms that one page (or a pillar page with supporting articles) should target. BoostSEO builds clusters from your own pages and tells you, per cluster, what to create, merge or improve.

AI Studio

Can BoostSEO write articles for me?

Pro members can draft SEO and GEO-friendly articles, outlines, meta tags, FAQs, schema and images with OpenAI, Gemini or Claude. Drafts include placeholders where you should add your own data, sources and experience — always review before publishing.

Billing

How much does Pro cost and can I cancel?

See the pricing page for the current monthly and yearly price. You can cancel any time from Account › Billing, keep Pro until the end of the paid period, and your first payment has a 14-day money-back guarantee.

Which payment methods do you accept?

Cards, PayPal and local methods depending on the payment provider enabled for your region (Paddle, Lemon Squeezy, Stripe or PayPal). VAT and US sales tax are calculated at checkout where required.

Privacy

Do you store the websites I audit?

We store the facts needed to build your report (titles, headings, links, word counts, structured data…) and the report itself, not full copies of your pages. Guest audits expire quickly; you can delete any audit or your whole account at any time.

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