SEOptimer Alternative: Free SEO + AI Readiness Audit
Maveriko is a free website auditor that scores SEO health, AI readiness (GEO) and entity authority in one scan, which makes it a useful SEOptimer alternative for anyone whose next problem is being quoted by AI rather than only ranking on Google.
SEOptimer is a mature, well-built audit tool aimed squarely at agencies, and it does several things Maveriko does not. This page lays both out plainly so you can pick on the merits rather than on whoever wrote the page you happened to land on.
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Where SEOptimer is the better choice
Genuinely — if any of these is what you need, pick SEOptimer:
- White-label client reporting at scale — SEOptimer's paid tiers are built around branded PDF audits as an agency deliverable, with a deeper feature set than Maveriko's name-only letterhead.
- An embeddable audit widget that captures leads on your own site, which is a core part of their agency offering and something Maveriko has not built.
- Backlink and keyword data drawn from commercial databases — Maveriko deliberately reports none of it.
- A long operating history and an established brand, which matters when you are putting a report in front of a client.
Where Maveriko is the better choice
- Entity authority: Maveriko checks whether AI systems can actually resolve your brand as a known entity (Wikipedia, Wikidata, sameAs links) — the off-page half of AI visibility that classic SEO auditors do not score at all.
- AI-readiness scoring across schema, answer shape, semantic structure and AI-crawler access, alongside the traditional SEO checks.
- Every issue ships with the exact fix, and where the fix is a file, Maveriko generates it from your own page — copy-paste JSON-LD, robots.txt or llms.txt.
- Unlimited free scans, with the scores and your highest-impact fix visible before any sign-up, because the engine is keyless and costs us close to nothing to run.
Side by side
| Dimension | SEOptimer | Maveriko |
|---|---|---|
| Classic SEO audit | Comprehensive, long-established, with backlink and keyword data behind the paid tiers. | 34 checks across indexability, on-page, performance, security and links — but no backlink or keyword data at all. |
| AI readiness (GEO) | Not the product's focus; the audit is built around traditional search signals. | Half the score. Schema, direct-answer shape, lists and tables, E-E-A-T signals and AI-crawler access. |
| Brand entity | Not scored. | Scored as Entity Authority via keyless Wikipedia and Wikidata lookups plus your declared sameAs graph. |
| Agency tooling | White-label reports and an embeddable lead-capture audit widget — a genuine strength. | Name-only white-label letterhead on the printed report. No embeddable widget yet. |
| Price | Free audit, with paid tiers for DIY, white-label reporting and the embeddable widget. | Free today, including every fix. A Pro plan is planned but nothing is charged yet. |
What Maveriko does not measure
Every audit tool has a ceiling. Ours, stated plainly so you can judge whether it matters to you:
- No traffic, keyword-volume or backlink data — that needs a paid clickstream database, and guessing it would be worse than omitting it.
- No measurement of whether AI engines cite you today. Maveriko scores whether a page is built to be cited, which is a different (and controllable) thing.
- One live URL per scan, not a whole-site crawl.
The full scoring methodology publishes every weight and threshold, including the signals whose supporting evidence is only experimental.
Frequently asked questions
Is Maveriko a drop-in replacement for SEOptimer?+
No. If your work depends on white-label client reporting at scale, an embeddable lead-capture widget, or backlink data, SEOptimer covers ground Maveriko does not. Maveriko is the better fit when the question is whether AI answer engines can read, trust and quote your pages.
Do I need an account to use Maveriko?+
No account is needed to run a scan, see your scores, or take your top fix — that one arrives complete, with the file generated from your own page. Signing in with Google, also free, unlocks the remaining fixes, the full category breakdown and saved report history.
Does Maveriko show backlinks or keyword volumes?+
No, and it never invents them. Both require a paid clickstream database. Everything Maveriko reports is measured from your live page and public entity records, which is why the audit can be free and unlimited.
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Fixing one page? Audit the whole site.
These tools work on a single page, in your browser. The full live-URL audit — SEO, GEO and entity authority — runs free with no sign-up and hands you your top fix; sign in with Google (also free) for the rest of the fixes and your saved report history.