Website
Check DNS, HTTPS, redirects, sitemap, robots.txt and sampled page content: titles, descriptions, headings, canonical links, alt text and structured data.
From scattered signals to your next step.
A practical guide to your first project, your first analysis and a steady rhythm of improvement.
Create your workspace01Create your project
Create an account, open Projects and select Create a project. Add your name, description, audience and market so the analysis has useful context. Start with a public website you own or are authorised to analyse.
A project brings its workflows, connections, recommendations and analysis history together. You can add more workflows as your questions evolve.
02Choose the questions that matter
Start with Website to establish a baseline. Add workflows to investigate particular channels or decisions.
Keywords
Inspect public Google/Bing search samples or optional SerpApi positions. When search is unavailable, review keyword mentions in your own site's content.
Competitors
Discover candidates, review them and save up to five direct competitors. Compare public website checks, content, search samples and offering summaries.
Research goals
Set a goal, success criteria and source sites. Collect public evidence and ask your configured AI provider for a research brief.
Customer questions
Sample answers from one configured AI model and inspect brand mentions. These answers do not represent all AI engines or live AI search results.
Social media
Analyse every social account saved in Connections. Configure each network's API to collect available follower, engagement and insight metrics, with public sources and API data labelled separately. If no accounts are saved, get a practical social launch plan for your brand.
Mobile apps
Review Apple public ratings and listing data, or Google Play listing checks. Private installs, retention and conversion need additional integrations.
Website test plans
Define authorised HTTP GET journeys with expected status codes and text. Checks do not submit forms or execute JavaScript.
03Connect the evidence you need
Use Connections to configure optional providers. In your project's Integrations tab, connect Google and select a verified Search Console property matching your website. Basic and Premium enable managed AI. API requests additionally require an administrator-assigned token. YouTube needs an API key; Mastodon uses public instance data.
Public website checks and built-in search do not need a paid API key. Public search can be blocked or unavailable. Optional search and social providers may have separate usage charges.
Explore the available connectors →04Queue your first analysis
Save the workflow and select Run analysis. SmartGrowth queues the job for its background worker; you can leave the page and return later. Work queue shows progress, failures and cancellation. The workflow view refreshes while work is active.
If a job stays queued
The deployment needs a running SmartGrowth worker. Ask your workspace operator to check the worker and provider configuration. Missing credentials or unavailable sources are explained in the results or job status.
05Read the results in context
Review findings, source links, evidence coverage and limitations before choosing an action. Health scores summarise applicable sampled checks. Missing data stays missing; a content check is not a search ranking.
- Observed: collected directly from a sampled public page or check.
- Provider: returned by a connected service.
- User-reported: supplied by you, with its reporting period.
- AI-generated: an interpretation or suggestion that needs review.
Use JSON and CSV exports from your project to share and inspect the evidence. Compare equivalent workflows and source coverage when reviewing trends.
06Make a change. Run again.
Prioritise recommendations by estimated impact and effort, track their status, and make the changes in your own website or content tools. SmartGrowth does not automatically edit or publish your website.
Re-run to see whether the sampled findings changed. Set a daily, weekly or monthly schedule where useful. Keep a note of what changed and when; an improving audit score alone does not prove an increase in sales or rankings.
YOUR NEXT CHAPTERMake your next move
Create your workspace Make your next move
with a clearer picture.
Start with one project. Build a habit of improvement.