Deep does not mean long. It means you looked at the live site, not a screenshot of a dashboard, and you ordered the fixes.
Fetch before you opine
Open robots.txt, one money URL's source, and the sitemap. Confirm 200s, canonicals, and that the words are in the HTML. Half of long audits are written before this step and then recommend content for pages the crawler cannot see.
Order the list
Access and indexation, then duplicates and titles, then internal links, then schema and llms.txt, then performance. GEO is not a separate religion at the bottom. A page that is clear enough to cite is the same page that deserves to rank.
Stop at a handoff
The deliverable is a list a developer or editor can do this month. Park the rest. Fix SEO Today is that list from a crawl. A deep audit you perform by hand should look like it: URLs, problems, changes. Not a brand workshop.
The crawl is minutes. The judgment is a sitting. If it takes two weeks, it has become a research project.
Do I still need a consultant?
For migrations, penalties, and regulated claims, yes. For the first list, run the check and see what is already obvious.
Why is Fix SEO Today cheaper?
A deep-audit export from an extremely expensive suite is a long sheet. The interpretation is the part that costs. Fix SEO Today is cheaper because you pay for the diagnosis. A free peek, then $19 a month for one project or $99 a month for unlimited projects. That covers the crawl and the plain-English fix list, including GEO. It leaves out the backlink index, the rank-tracker seats, and the ads module.