Your first 15 minutes after signing up: a checklist

Your account is open; now let's make the system useful. This list takes you from setup to your first approvals. Most steps take a few clicks; the only wait is for the first crawl to finish.

#1. Finish the setup wizard

1. On the SEOAsist setup screen that opens on first sign-in, add your site and press Add site and start crawling.
2. Connect Search Console and GA4 with Connect with Google. This is where the analysis gets most of its data, so don't skip it.
3. Complete the channel, notification and goal steps, then press Finish setup.

Each step in detail: Setup wizard.

#2. Watch the first crawl finish

1. Look for the “Crawling …” label in the top bar. The crawl runs in the background, so you can leave the page.
2. When it is done you get a “… crawl finished” message with the page count and score.
3. Once the crawl finishes, the SEO analysis runs on its own.

#3. Check the score on Overview

1. Open Overview.
2. On the SEO Health Score card, the big number is the SEO analysis score; the Technical health row below it is the crawl result. How they differ: SEO score vs. technical health.
3. If Search Console is connected, the clicks, impressions, CTR and position tiles fill in after the first sync.

#4. Open the SEO analysis

1. Open the site from Sites and press SEO Analysis.
2. Read the Summary paragraph, then look at the scores of the 7 dimensions.
3. Note the grey sources in the Data coverage card; the score gets more accurate as you connect them.
4. Skim the top few items in the Prioritised findings table.

Details: SEO analysis.

#5. Review critical technical issues

1. Open Technical Audit.
2. Start with Critical and Serious issues; they lower the score the most.
3. If something is the way it is on purpose, mark it Intentional; the score and the analysis are recalculated.

#6. Track a few keywords

1. On Keywords, switch to the Tracking tab.
2. Type the keywords the site targets under Add keywords and press Track.

How many keywords you can track depends on your plan: Plans and quotas.

#7. Approve the draft workspaces

1. When the analysis finishes, a “draft workspaces ready” notification lands in the bell.
2. Follow it to Workspaces and review the draft's tasks.
3. Start the ones you like. Drafts do nothing until you approve them.

#8. Check notifications and the weekly report

1. On Reports, check the recipients and the Generate and send the weekly report every Monday at 09:30 box in the Weekly report card.
2. On Settings → Notifications, choose which events reach you by e-mail, Telegram, webhook or WhatsApp.

#Check that it worked

• Overview shows a score and the Technical health row is filled in.
• The SEO Analysis on the site page shows a date and 7 dimensions.
• At least one workspace is active or in draft.

#FAQ

#The crawl is taking a long time. Is that normal?

Large sites take longer to crawl. If something looks wrong, see Crawl problems.

#Why doesn't Search Console data show up right away?

The first sync can take a few minutes, and Search Console data lags by a day. For connection problems, see Google permissions.