Vol. CXII · Issue No. 482
Thursday, April 30, 2026
Section D · Free Audit
FUNDATA · 2019 · AETERNUM SIGNAL · PROXIMA

The Northbound Standard

An organic-search broadsheet for B2B operators · published since 2019 by Your Business
Section D · pages 44–46
"Receipts not rituals" — since 2019
3-page PDF · 5 business days
Section D · 47 audits per quarter · published since 2019

Submit a domain. Get a 3-page PDF.

No card. No discovery call gauntlet. No automated nurture sequence. We send the deliverable as an attachment within 5 business days, and you keep it whether or not you hire us.

The Submission

Twelve questions. Three of them matter; the other nine are diagnostic. The point is to make a real audit possible without a 60-minute discovery call.

Read the standards first

By submitting you agree to our standard editorial NDA. The deliverable is yours regardless of whether you become a retainer.

Anatomy of the deliverable

A representative example, redacted. The full sample is mailed by request.

Page 1 · Site health
Site Health Summary
Pages indexed2,184
Crawl budget util.62%
Avg. response time1.4s
Schema coverage14%
Internal-link orphans284
Backlinks (unique)3,401

Site shows classic over-publication signature. Crawl-budget recovery available via 38% kill list and internal-linking surgery.

VERIFIED
Q1·26
Page 2 · Top opportunities
Three Opportunities
1. Kill list$ 84k / yr
2. Internal-link surgery$ 42k / yr
3. Topical authority gap$ 118k / yr

Estimates use the client's own paid CPC as the benchmark price for organic visits in the top intent-aligned keyword cluster.

The kill-list opportunity assumes 38% of pages identified as "thin" are redirected or 410'd within 90 days.

VERIFIED
Q1·26
Page 3 · Match score & next move
Match Score & Move
Standards alignment72 / 100
Recommended tierTier II
Engagement length9 mo min.
Audited byK. Briley

Recommended next move: 21-day diagnostic upgrade, then Tier II featured retainer commencing at month two.

If we are not your firm, our two recommended alternatives are Brace & Co. (Toronto) and Coastline Editorial (Lisbon).

VERIFIED
Q1·26

What happens after you submit

I

Receipt

You receive an automated receipt and a calendar block for the senior editor who will run the audit.

D + 0
II

Crawl

We run the technical crawl, log-file parse, and backlink pull. No human input required from you.

D + 1
III

Editorial review

A senior editor reads the top 60 pages by hand, scoring each against our editorial standard.

D + 2 — D + 4
IV

Deliverable

3-page PDF + 1 CSV emailed as attachments. Signed by the senior editor.

D + 5
V

Optional follow-up

If you want a 30-min readout we will book one. If you don't, you never hear from us again.

at your option