Getting started
Sign up, add your website and know what to do in your first week.
- What is UtilitySEO?UtilitySEO helps a small business get found in Google and in AI answers. It works from your own Google data, checks your website, tracks the...
- How do I sign up and start my free trial?Go to https://app.utilityseo.com, choose to sign up with your email or with Google, and follow the short sign-up steps. Your free trial starts as...
- How do I add my website to UtilitySEO?On the Projects screen, choose + New Project, enter your website address (for example https://yoursite.co.uk) and press Create. Each website is one...
- What should I do in my first week?Work through the Your first week checklist on your Dashboard: run your first site scan, connect Google Search Console, fix one issue, track your...
- How do I get free help setting up UtilitySEO?Choose Free setup help in the sidebar (or Settings, Free setup help), pick what you want help with, choose email or a short call, and press Ask for...
- What is the UtilitySEO Academy?The UtilitySEO Academy is a set of free courses on SEO, Search Console, Google Analytics 4, getting your pages indexed, local SEO and showing up in...
- What does the Dashboard show?The Dashboard is your week at a glance for the project you are in. Four cards at the top show where you rank and what moved, how often AI answers...
- What do the search and traffic cards on the Dashboard mean?Below the four top cards, the Dashboard has cards about your searches and traffic: pages losing clicks (Watch mode), your biggest keyword movers...
- What do the fixes and setup cards on the Dashboard mean?These Dashboard cards keep the next job in front of you: which Google connections are on, shortcuts to common tasks, what changed recently, the...
- How do I set up local SEO on the Dashboard?If your customers come from a town or area you serve, use the Local SEO setup card on your Dashboard. It lists six things that bring local...
- What is the Activity log?The Activity log is the history of everything that changed on a project: the issues you fixed, the scans and audits you ran, tracked searches...
- How does Ask about this project work?Ask is a button that stays in the bottom-right corner of every screen inside a project. Press it, type a question about your website, such as "What...
- How do I use the search box and command palette?Press Ctrl+K (Cmd+K on a Mac), or click Search at the top of the sidebar, to open the command palette. Type a few letters to find any page, a tool...
- Where do I see notifications and alerts?Alerts about your sites, such as a keyword falling, traffic dropping or an AI assistant no longer naming you, appear in two places. The bell on the...
- How do I take the product tour?The product tour is a two-minute walk through UtilitySEO in six stops: scan your site, fix what is broken, see what you are found for, find a topic...
- How do I find help inside UtilitySEO?Press Help centre at the bottom of the sidebar to open these help articles in a new tab, or type your question into the command palette (Ctrl+K) to...
Still stuck?
Email support@utilityseo.com and a person will reply, usually within one working day. Free setup help is on every plan, trial included.