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Two free checks every website owner should run. A website checker that shows how Google and AI search see your site, and an email test that shows whether your emails reach the inbox or go to spam. Both explain the results in plain English.

Updated 10 November 2026

Free check

Website checker: SEO, AEO and GEO

Type your web address and see in about ten seconds what search engines and AI assistants make of your website. No sign-up, no sales call.

  • Whether Google can read your site at all
  • How it looks and loads on a phone
  • Whether AI assistants such as ChatGPT are being turned away
  • Optional full report: backlinks, the searches you appear for, and what three AI assistants say about you
Check my website free Full report £7, paid once. No subscription.
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Email deliverability test: inbox or spam?

Send one email to a one-off address and get a score out of 10, with everything that might send your quotes and invoices to the junk folder.

  • SPF, DKIM and DMARC checked on a real email
  • Spam score from a real spam filter (SpamAssassin)
  • Blocklists, reverse DNS, links and content
  • What to fix, in plain English, with a link to share

Start with the problem

What has gone wrong, and which tool finds it

Most people arrive here with a symptom, not a setting. Find yours below and run the check next to it.

Why are my emails going to spam?

Most often the receiving server cannot prove the email came from you, because SPF, DKIM or DMARC is missing or wrong. A blocklisted server and spammy looking content are the other causes. You get no error when it happens.

Run the free email spam test

Customers say they never got my quote or invoice

If it did not bounce, it was almost certainly delivered to their junk folder. Send the same kind of email to our test address and see what Gmail, Outlook and Yahoo would have seen.

Test a real email

Is my SPF, DKIM and DMARC set up properly?

Gmail, Yahoo and Microsoft now expect all three from any business. The email test reads them from a real message. The domain check looks up SPF, DMARC, your mail servers and the blocklists from your domain name alone.

Use the SPF and DMARC checker

Why is my website not showing up on Google?

Either Google cannot read the site, or it can and does not think the pages answer what people search for. The first is a setting. The second is wording, page titles and links. The free check rules out the first in ten seconds.

Run the free website SEO checker · Being found on Google

My website is not showing up in AI search

ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews name the businesses they can read and describe with confidence. Some security plugins and hosts turn their robots away without telling you.

Check my AI visibility · How AI assistants choose

I need SEO optimisation but not a monthly contract

Most small business websites need a short list of fixes, done once: clearer page titles, a page per service, working links and consistent contact details. You do not need a subscription to find out what they are.

See what to fix first · Example report

My website is slow on a phone

Most local searches happen on a phone, and Google measures your site the way a phone sees it. Oversized images and too many add-ons are the usual causes.

Check my site on a phone · Speed and mobile

Who links to my website?

Links from other websites, called backlinks, work like recommendations. The full report counts them, shows how that has changed over a year and finds links that lead to pages you have since removed.

Get a backlink check · What backlinks are

Search has changed

SEO, AEO and GEO: what a website owner needs to know now

People no longer only type into Google and pick from ten links. They ask an AI assistant and get a few names back. A website now has to work for both, and there are three names for the job.

SEO

Search engine optimisation

Being found in the list of results on Google and Bing. Still where most customers start, and the foundation for the other two.

Being found on Google

AEO

Answer engine optimisation

Being the one answer when Google's AI Overviews, Siri or Alexa reply with a single answer instead of a list.

What is AEO?

GEO

Generative engine optimisation

Being named when ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity write a recommendation. Also called AI SEO or LLM SEO.

What is GEO?

The good news is that the three overlap far more than the jargon suggests. A website that says clearly what you do, where you do it and how to reach you, that loads quickly on a phone, and that is described the same way everywhere it appears, does well at all of them. Nobody can pay to be named by an AI assistant, and you do not need special files or code. You need the basics right, and a way to see where you stand.

That is what the website checker is for. The free check looks at whether search engines and AI robots can read your site. The full report asks ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity the questions your customers would ask, for your trade in your town, and shows whether they named you, who they named instead and which websites they relied on.

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The half people forget

Email deliverability: the quote that never arrived

A customer finds you online, asks for a price, and your reply lands in their spam folder. You are not told. They assume you ignored them. Getting found is only half of it.

SPF

The guest list

The servers allowed to send email for your domain. Mail from anywhere else looks suspicious.

DKIM

The wax seal

A signature on every email that proves it is yours and was not changed on the way.

DMARC

The instructions

What receivers should do with mail that fails the other two. It also stops scammers sending as you.

These are three short records in your domain's settings. Since 2024 Gmail, Yahoo and Microsoft have expected businesses to have all three, and email without them is far more likely to be junked. They are easy to get wrong, and they often break quietly when you change your website host, your email provider or the contact form on your site.

The email deliverability test checks them on a real email, runs the message through a real spam filter, and looks your sending server up on the blocklists. It gives you a score out of 10 and shows what each problem cost, so you know what to fix first.

Test my email freeCheck a domain instead

Ten minutes, start to finish

A webmaster checklist for a small business

You do not need to be technical. Work down the list once, then again after any big change.

  1. Run the free website check. Make sure Google and the AI robots can read your site, and that it works on a phone. Website checker
  2. Send one test email. From the mailbox you use for customers, ideally a real quote or invoice email. Aim for 9 out of 10 or better. Email test
  3. Fix what is flagged, top of the list first. Each result says what to do. If someone else looks after your website or email, send them the report.
  4. Add your site to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools. Both are free and show you what those search engines themselves record about your website. They are worth having alongside any other tool.
  5. Make your details match everywhere. The same business name, address and phone number on your website, your Google Business Profile and every directory. Search engines and AI assistants trust what agrees.
  6. Check again after any change. A new host, a new email provider or a redesign can undo settings that were working.

Who it is for

Built for business owners. Useful for webmasters and agencies too.

These tools were built for the owners of small and medium-sized businesses who look after their own website, or who pay someone to and want to know it is being done properly. There is nothing to install, no account to create and no sales call afterwards.

Web designers, freelancers and agencies are welcome to use them on client sites. The reports are written so that a client can follow them, which makes them a handy way to show what needs doing and why.

They are not a replacement for Google Search Console, which used to be called Google Webmaster Tools, or for Bing Webmaster Tools. Those show a search engine's own data about your site and are worth setting up. Think of ours as the plain English first look, and the quickest way to answer the question "is something wrong?"

Questions

Webmaster tools: common questions

What are webmaster tools?
Webmaster tools are checks that show the owner of a website how it is doing: whether search engines can read it, what people search for to find it, how fast it loads, and whether the emails sent from its domain are trusted. The best known are Google Search Console, which used to be called Google Webmaster Tools, and Bing Webmaster Tools. Ours are simpler: a website checker and an email test that explain the results in plain English.
Are these webmaster tools really free?
Yes. The website check and the email deliverability test are free, with no account and nothing to install. If you want the full written report on your website, with the AI assistant test and the backlink check, it is £7, paid once, with no subscription. You never have to buy it.
Why is my website not showing up on Google?
The usual reasons are that the site is new and Google has not read it yet, that a setting or security plugin is telling Google not to read it, that the pages do not say clearly what you do and where, or that few other websites link to you. The free website check tells you in about ten seconds whether Google can read your site at all, which is the first thing to rule out.
Why is my website not showing up in AI search?
AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity name the businesses they can describe with confidence. If your website is vague about what you do and where, if its robots are being turned away by a security setting, or if you are described differently on different websites, an assistant will name someone else. Making a site easy for assistants to read and quote is called GEO or AEO.
Why are my emails going to spam?
Usually because the receiving mail server cannot confirm the email really came from you. That is what SPF, DKIM and DMARC are for, and a missing or wrong record is the most common cause. The other causes are a sending server that is on a blocklist, and wording or links that look like spam to a filter. The email test checks all three and says which one applies to you.
Do I need to be a webmaster to use these?
No. They are written for business owners, not for technical people. Every result says what it means and what to do about it. If someone else looks after your website or your email, you can send them the report.
What is the difference between SEO, AEO and GEO?
SEO, search engine optimisation, is being found in the list of results on Google and Bing. AEO, answer engine optimisation, is being the answer when Google's AI Overviews or a voice assistant give one answer instead of a list. GEO, generative engine optimisation, is being named when ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity write a recommendation. The same clear, consistent website helps all three.
Do these replace Google Search Console?
No, and you should have Google Search Console as well, because only Google can show you its own data about your site. It is free, but it is written for specialists. Our tools are the plain English first look: what is wrong, why it matters and what to change.
Is there an SPF, DKIM and DMARC checker?
Yes. The email test reads all three from a real email you send, which is the only way to check DKIM properly. If you would sooner not send an email, the domain check on the same page looks up your SPF and DMARC records, your mail servers and the main blocklists from your domain name alone.
How often should I check my website and email?
After any change: a new website, a new host, a new email provider, a new contact form or a new domain. Otherwise every few months is enough. Settings that worked last year can quietly stop working, and nothing tells you when they do.

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