Get a second opinion that is not theirs
You are the owner who manages a supplier, or the only marketer in the business. Organic visits fell and the explanation was thin. You do not have a full view of the accounts. You need something you can stand behind, with your boss or with yourself, before the next invoice.
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The part that wears you down
You are accountable, and partly in the dark
The board, or your own conscience, wants to know what the agency did. The report describes activity. It does not show you the accounts, so you cannot check it.
Visits fell and the reason is a sentence
Search traffic dropped after a date they mention in passing. You cannot tell whether the site broke, the rankings moved, fewer people clicked, or the tracking stopped.
Access is treated as optional
Read-only access to Analytics, Search Console or the ads is 'not how we work'. You are left managing a supplier you cannot inspect.
Build a view you control
You do not need to become the agency. You need a copy of the evidence in an account you can open. Read-only is enough. The agency delivery guide includes a short note you can send, and the SEO questions are the list to take into the next call.
- Google Search Console: Google's own record of searches, clicks and indexed pages. If they rank well but nobody clicks, this is where it shows.
- Google Analytics 4: visits and the events that are meant to be enquiries or sales. If this is empty while the business is not, read the zero-revenue guide before you blame the work.
- The ads account, if you pay for ads: what is being counted as a result. The conversions guide explains the trap.
- The website itself: one page, checked independently, so a technical fault is not only the agency's story to tell.
When the numbers drop
A drop has a starting point. Demand can fall. You can show up less often. People can stop clicking. The site can lose them. Or the tracking can stop, so the work is fine and the report is not. Asking which of those it is, with the screen in front of you, is a fair question. It is not a hostile one.
What AuditCrow can show you
Run the free scan on a page the agency looks after, so you have an independent read of that page today. In the platform, connect the accounts you get access to. When visits or leads drop, AuditCrow works down the chain from search demand to impressions, position, click-through, sessions and conversions, names a likely cause and shows the evidence. It does not claim a single task caused the drop.
Free page scan
One page, no signup
- An independent read of one page, with no agency login required
- Indexing, speed, content and whether a visitor can take the next step
- A sample of a finished scan on the sample report, so you know the shape of it
AuditCrow platform
Your whole site, kept watched
- Search Console, Analytics and Google Ads in an account you control
- A decline read: where in the chain the drop starts, including broken tracking
- Tasks with an owner, then a check that the change is live
- A monthly report in the app built around delivered work, blockers and the next commitment
AuditCrow will not reconstruct what the agency changed inside Google Ads or Meta, and it will not tell you who the admin is on each account. Ask for that access directly. If they will not connect Search Console or Analytics, the platform still audits the public site and says which data is missing rather than filling the gap.
Common questions
Related reading
- Is your agency delivering?Access, five questions for the monthly report, and a note you can send before you pay again.
- Questions for your SEO agencyWhat to ask before you pay another month, including an AI-search upsell.
- A useful monthly reportWhat to insist on in the monthly update, and what to stop reading.
- Whole-site auditEleven areas, and a read on where a drop in traffic starts.
- ReportingWhat was delivered, what was verified, what is blocked, what is next.
- Sample reportA real scan, so you can see the tone before you run your own.
See one page of your own site, in plain English.
The free scan is one page, with no signup. The platform is the whole site, your data and a plan, when you want it.
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