Most service-business websites have two or three pages quietly dragging down the rest, and the owner has no idea which ones. The Pages tab in SEO Autopilot answers that in one click: it fetches your pages, scores each one for on-page SEO health, and stacks them worst-first so you always know where to start. Here is how to run a crawl and read the results without guessing.

SEO AUTOPILOT · PAGES Last crawled 03 Jul, 09:12 Crawl your site https://acme-plumbing.com/sitemap.xml Run crawl 71 avg health score 6 pages · worst first 80+ healthy 50-79 attention <50 fix soon 37 Water Heater Repair /services/water-heater-repair 4 issues ▼ HIGH · no meta description HIGH · thin (188 words) 64 Drain Cleaning · Austin /austin/drain-cleaning 2 issues ▼ MED · no structured data 72 Emergency Plumbing /services/emergency-plumbing 2 issues ▼ MED · few internal links 91 Home / 1 issue LOW · 2 images no alt Read it top to bottom The lowest score sits at the top. Clear the red HIGH issues first, then work down into amber, then re-crawl. Score = 100 − penalties · HIGH −18 · MED −8 · LOW −3
The Pages tab: paste URLs or a sitemap, get a health score per page, and read the worst page first with its issues tagged by severity.

How to crawl your site and read health step by step

  1. Open the Pages tab in SEO Autopilot and find the "Crawl your site" box.
  2. Paste your page URLs (comma or newline separated) or a single sitemap.xml URL, then click Run crawl.
  3. Wait while Autopilot fetches each page (up to 25) and scores it 0-100 for on-page SEO health.
  4. Read the average health score at the top, then scan the list - it sorts worst page first.
  5. Click any row to expand its full issue list, each tagged high, med, or low severity.
  6. Fix the high-severity items first (missing title, missing meta, no H1, thin content), then re-crawl to confirm the score moved.

What the health score is built from

Every page starts at 100 and loses points for each problem the crawl finds. A high-severity issue costs 18 points, a medium one costs 8, and a low one costs 3. So a page with two high issues and a medium lands at 56 - amber, not a crisis, but worth a look. The signals it checks are the on-page basics that shape how a page ranks and how it shows up in search results.

The high-severity flags are the ones that move rankings the most: a missing <title> tag, a missing meta description, no H1 heading, and thin content (under 300 words). Medium flags include multiple H1s, no structured data, and having fewer than two internal links pointing out. Low flags cover things like a title over 65 characters that may get truncated in search, images missing alt text, or a missing llms.txt signal for AI answer engines. None of these are guesses - the crawl reads your actual HTML.

Crawl a sitemap versus a URL list

If you want the whole site, paste your sitemap.xml URL (for example https://yoursite.com/sitemap.xml) and Autopilot pulls the page list from it. If you only care about a handful of money pages - your top service pages and your busiest city page - paste those URLs directly, one per line or comma-separated. Either way the crawl caps at 25 pages, so on a big site, lead with the pages that actually bring in calls rather than blog archives or tag pages.

Work the list worst-first

The whole point of the sort order is triage. The lowest-scoring page sits at the top because that is where a fix returns the most. Open it, read the red HIGH rows, and knock those out first - adding a real title and meta description, giving the page a single clear H1, and thickening obviously thin copy. A service page that jumps from 188 words with no meta to a proper 500-word page with a description will visibly move its score on the next crawl. Then move down into the amber pages and repeat.

Autopilot can handle several of these for you - it injects schema, maintains internal links at the edge, and flags refresh candidates - but you review and approve those actions. The crawl itself is read-only: running it never changes your live site, so you can re-crawl as often as you like to check your work.

See your own page-health scores

Run a crawl in SEO Autopilot and get a worst-first list of exactly what to fix on your service pages.

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FAQ

What does the health score actually measure?

It scores each page from 0 to 100 on on-page SEO signals - title and meta description, H1 headings, word count, structured data, internal links, and image alt text. The page starts at 100 and loses points for each issue found (18 for a high-severity issue, 8 for medium, 3 for low).

How many pages can I crawl at once?

Up to 25 pages per crawl. You can paste an explicit list of URLs or point Autopilot at a sitemap.xml and it will pull URLs from there. If you have a larger site, crawl your most important service and location pages first.

What counts as a high-severity issue?

Missing title tag, missing meta description, no H1 heading, and thin content (under 300 words) are all flagged high because they most directly hurt how a page ranks and appears in search. These are the ones to fix before anything cosmetic.

Does running a crawl change anything on my site?

No. The crawl only fetches and reads your pages - it is a read-only audit. Any fixes (schema injection, internal linking, content refresh) are separate actions you review and approve before they go live.

Is the score green, amber, or red?

Score badges are color-coded: green at 80 and above (healthy), amber from 50 to 79 (needs attention), and red below 50 (fix soon). The color is a quick triage cue so you know which pages to open first.