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Help for PrivateSEO AI Auditor

Open any page and select the extension icon — the audit runs immediately, with nothing to start manually. Below: what each tab does, what you can change under the gear, how to read the scores and what the AI features produce.

9 tabs with screenshotsright-click menuanswers to common questions

Install from Chrome Web Store

Extension tabs

Switch tabs with keys 1–9. The gear to the right of the tabs opens Settings. Each tab is described below.

Audit tab: page SEO score, Title, Description, H1, canonical and meta robots with check marks

This help describes version 1.0.33, October 7, 2026.

✦ Quick start

Three steps to your first audit

Install the extension

From the Chrome Web Store, free and with no sign-up. It works in Chrome and Chromium-based browsers — we test the extension in Chrome and Yandex Browser.

Open a page and click the icon

Any page — your own, a client’s or a competitor’s. The audit is ready at once: SEO score, meta tags, indexing, links, images and structured data.

Start with what matters

The score and the issues marked “Start here” are at the top. Then come task-based tabs, the AI action plan and the right-click menu for quick checks right on the page.

✦ Tabs

What each tab does

tab 1

Audit

The main screen. It opens with the result already there: the page SEO score with a verdict in words, the list of detected issues with a “start here” badge, meta tags (Title, Description, H1), indexing (canonical, meta robots, X-Robots-Tag, robots.txt, sitemap), lang/hreflang, HTTP status and Core Web Vitals.

Good to know: Selecting any value copies it. The copy button in a block header copies the whole block at once. Title, Description and H1 issues offer “Get variants in AI”, which switches to the AI tab and generates ready-to-use options.

AI tab: Title, Description and H1 options, the full action plan and the PDF report

tab 2

AI

A workspace for improving the page. The AI writes from the content of the open page: Title, Description and H1 variants of the right length (with a diagnosis of the current value and the angle of each variant), a direct-answer paragraph for the top of the page, an FAQ block of three questions and a full action plan of 5–8 items explaining why each change matters. The PDF report opens from here too.

Good to know: Any generation can be cancelled by pressing the button again. “More variants” adds a new set of three to the ones you already have, so you can build a shortlist. Results are cached: reopening the popup on the same page does not spend new requests.

GEO tab: AI-search readiness score, what to improve and AI-bot access to the page

tab 3

GEO

How ready the page is for AI search, scored 0–100. The extension checks AI crawler access (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, YandexBot and others), llms.txt, structured data, the presence of a direct answer and an FAQ, and how the content is structured.

Good to know: This is the extension’s own scale — it does not match the scores of other services because it checks a different set of factors. “Check again” recalculates with fresh data.

tab 4

SERP

Quick checks of the page and the site in Google: find the current URL in the index, list pages of the domain (site:), find URLs that duplicate the current path (site: plus inurl:) and pages with the same title (intitle:), plus utilities for copying URLs from an open search results page and finding the business on maps.

Good to know: The hint under each card names the operator used for that search. Google operators have become imprecise in recent years — treat them as a quick estimate, not a complete list. In the Russian interface the tab also has Google search by city and the same checks in Yandex.

tab 5

On-page

Tools that work on the page itself: highlighting the H1–H6 heading structure with a table of contents, highlighting image alt text (a red outline means no alt, yellow means empty, green means filled in), and disabling JavaScript and CSS. Below are external checks: PageSpeed for desktop and mobile.

Good to know: Disabling JavaScript shows the page the way some search crawlers see it — the “broken” view is the result of the check. If you forget to turn JS or CSS back on, the extension offers to restore everything with one click the next time you open it.

tab 6

Links

Every link on the page with a summary: total, internal, external, problematic. An instant diagnosis without network requests covers HTTP links, internal nofollow links, internal UTM tags, empty anchors and duplicates. “Check links” finds broken ones (4xx, 5xx and unreachable URLs) and lists redirects with their final destination. Filters by type, protocol, rel attribute and HTTP status, plus search, highlighting external and nofollow/noindex links right on the page, and TSV export.

Good to know: The check runs sequentially and stops when you close the popup. Filters appear once links have been found on the page.

tab 7

Images

Images on the page: a summary of alt text (missing, empty, filled in), images without declared dimensions (a layout-shift risk), overly long alt text and duplicates. The weight check finds images heavier than 300 KB. A filter by alt state is available.

Good to know: Weight is measured with real requests to the images, so it takes time on large pages.

tab 8

Schema

Structured data on the page: JSON-LD (types and parsing errors), Open Graph, Twitter Cards and microformats, with quick links to the Google Rich Results and Schema.org validators (and the Yandex validator in the Russian interface).

Good to know: Schema subtypes are counted correctly: MedicalBusiness counts as an Organization, and BlogPosting counts as an Article.

tab 9

Tools

Quick links to external tools grouped by job: domain and hosting (Web Archive, SSL, WHOIS, CMS), content (a uniqueness check) and validators (HTML, CSS, spelling). At the bottom are the analytics trackers detected on the page.

Good to know: Each card is clickable as a whole and opens the service with the current page address already filled in.

✦ Settings

The gear: theme, ad highlighting and announcements

The gear sits to the right of the tabs. Changes are saved immediately and apply to search pages that are already open. Reload a tab only if it still shows an older style right after the extension updates.

Extension theme

System, light or dark. The system option follows your operating system and switches with it. The theme of the extension window does not control how highlighting looks on the search page itself.

Highlight paid ads

The extension adds color to paid ads in search results so you can tell them apart from organic listings. Highlighting stays off until you turn it on with the “Highlight paid search ads” switch in Settings. The extension offers it once, on the third time you open it. It runs locally in your browser and does not send your search queries to our server. Ads are not blocked and the order of results does not change.

Color and style

Shown in Settings once highlighting is on. Four colors — amber, blue, violet and green. Three styles — an outline with a background, an outline only or a background only. Corners can stay square or be rounded by 8 or 16 pixels. Two previews show your choice on a light and a dark background, and shades on the search page adapt to that page’s theme.

What’s new

A release announcement appears once after the extension updates and links to the release notes. A fresh install goes straight to the audit. You can open the announcement again from Settings under “What’s new”.

Right-click menu

Turns the “PrivateSEO” item in the browser’s right-click menu on or off. It is on after installation. When it is off, the item disappears from the menu completely; the buttons inside the extension tabs keep working as before.

Rate the extension

Opens the rating at any time: four and five stars lead to a review in the Chrome Web Store, one to three open a “What should we fix?” form. Your message goes to the PrivateSEO team; the address of the open page is not sent, and contact details are optional.

Coverage and privacy

A result is highlighted when a combination of advertising signals is found in the search page markup: text ads and sponsored product and service cards inside regular web search. Highlighting updates as results and carousel items load. New or unverified formats may remain unhighlighted, so an absence of color does not prove that a result is organic. Dedicated Images, Maps, Shopping and AI search modes are outside the stated coverage.

✦ Help

The right-click menu

Right-click any web page and choose “PrivateSEO”: highlight H1–H6 headings, image alt text, external links and nofollow/noindex links, or turn JavaScript and CSS off and on — the same actions as in the On-page and Links tabs, without opening the window. The first click turns a highlight on, the second removes it.

The same menu checks whether the page is in the Google index. Right-click a link to open its Web Archive copies.

The menu appears on regular web pages only. You can turn it off in Settings: the gear → “Right-click menu”.

✦ Help

How the SEO score is calculated

100 points minus 30 for every critical issue and minus 5 for every warning. Next to the number is a verdict in words: 90+ is “excellent”, 70–89 is “good, room to improve”, 50–69 is “needs attention” and below 50 is “many critical issues”.

Critical issues are the ones that genuinely keep a page out of search, such as a missing Title or indexing being disallowed. Warnings are worth fixing but are not fatal: a long Title, a short Description, images without alt text. The score comes from automated checks of the current page and does not replace a full site audit.

✦ Help

The GEO score: readiness for AI search

The 0–100 scale shows how ready a page is to be cited by AI systems: whether AI crawlers have access, whether llms.txt, structured data, a direct answer and an FAQ are present, and how well the content is structured. This is the PrivateSEO methodology — it does not match the scores of other services because it checks a different set of factors.

✦ Help

AI features and your data

When you press an AI button, the content of the open page — headings and text — is sent to the PrivateSEO server. The model writes ready-to-use wording from it: meta tag variants, a direct answer, an FAQ or an action plan — in the language of that page, not of the interface. The data is used only to generate that answer. An anonymous installation identifier (a random number with no personal data) is sent with the request and is used for feature usage statistics. Button clicks in the extension window and choices in the right-click menu are counted the same anonymous way, without page addresses or selected text. After uninstalling, a short optional survey asks what went wrong.

The AI can be wrong: review the text before publishing it. For local and intranet addresses the extension asks for separate confirmation before sending anything. Ad highlighting is unrelated to the AI features and runs entirely in the browser.

✦ Help

Keyboard shortcuts

1–9 — switch tabs;
C — copy meta tags (on the Audit tab);
Enter / Space — copy the focused value;
Esc — close the popup, a sheet, Settings or help;
arrows, Home, End — move between tabs from the keyboard.

✦ Help

Terms

Rel canonical: the main address of a page for search engines; helps consolidate duplicates.
Meta robots: indexing rules in the page code (index/noindex, follow/nofollow).
X-Robots-Tag: the same indexing rules, set in HTTP response headers.
lang / hreflang: the language of a page in code and its language versions for multilingual sites.
llms.txt: a navigation file for AI crawlers — like robots.txt, but for AI systems.
Core Web Vitals: speed and stability metrics: LCP (rendering), CLS (layout shifts), TTFB (server response).

✦ Help

Frequently asked questions

Which browsers does the extension work in?

Google Chrome and Chromium-based browsers that install extensions from the Chrome Web Store. We test every version in Chrome and Yandex Browser.

Which languages does the interface support and how do I switch?

Eight: English, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal), Turkish, Indonesian and German. The language follows your browser interface language — there is no separate switch in the extension. AI features answer in the language of the page you audit.

The extension says it does not work on this page. Why?

There is nothing to read on browser system pages, the extension store or a new tab, so the audit is unavailable there. If it is a regular page and no data appears, press “Retry” in the extension window or reload the page.

The site looks broken after a check. How do I restore it?

JavaScript or CSS is most likely still turned off. Open the extension — it shows a warning with a “Turn back on” button. The buttons on the On-page tab and the right-click menu items do the same.

How do I remove the PrivateSEO item from the right-click menu?

The gear → “Right-click menu”. The switch removes the PrivateSEO item from the browser menu completely; the buttons inside the tabs keep working.

What is the “How do you like the extension?” question at the bottom?

A blue strip with a rating question and stars appears at the bottom of the window on every third open, starting with the fourth. Four and five stars lead to a review in the Chrome Web Store, one to three open a “What should we fix?” form. Once you rate, the question is not shown again.

Where does my feedback go and what is sent?

To the PrivateSEO team. Your rating, your message and your contact — if you left one — are sent. The address of the open page is not.

How do I update the extension and see what changed?

The browser updates the extension automatically. After an update a “What’s new” window appears once; you can reopen it from Settings. All versions are listed on the release notes page.

✦ Help

Still have questions?

Found a bug or missing a feature — email us at eduardtr95@gmail.com. The full release history is on the changelog page (v1.0.33).

✦ Install the extension

Try PrivateSEO AI Auditor

A free Chrome extension with an SEO checklist, AI crawler checks, Core Web Vitals and AI recommendations for the current page.

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