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🔍 View Site Auditor How to Fix Details

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Camilo Aponte

Camilo Aponte

Last updated on Sep 30, 2026

🧭 Where Your Site Audit Lives

All site audit data is accessed through the OTTO SEO section of Search Atlas. Start by navigating to Left sidebar → OTTO SEO → All Sites and clicking your project card. This opens your project's audit dashboard, where you can review crawl results and flagged issues across the Left sidebar → OTTO SEO → Site Audit → Overview (Website Overview) and Left sidebar → OTTO SEO → Site Audit → Page Explorer screens.

🐛 How to Find Your Flagged Issues

The Left sidebar → OTTO SEO → Site Audit → Overview (Website Overview) screen is your starting point for reviewing all issues detected during the most recent crawl. Issues are grouped by severity into three categories: Errors, Warnings, and Notices. Each category lists every issue type found, together with the number of affected pages.

✅ How to Access 'How to Fix' Details

The How to Fix guidance is not visible at the category level — you must click into a specific issue to reveal it. Follow these steps:

  1. Go to Left sidebar → OTTO SEO → All Sites and open your project card.
  2. Navigate to Left sidebar → OTTO SEO → Site Audit → Overview (Website Overview) to see the full issues list.
  3. Expand the relevant severity category (Errors, Warnings, or Notices) if it is collapsed.
  4. Click the specific issue name — for example, Missing Meta Descriptions or Broken Internal Links — not the category header.
  5. A detail panel will open showing three sections: About (an explanation of the issue), How to Fix (step-by-step remediation instructions), and Affected Pages (every URL impacted).
  6. Read the How to Fix section and work through the Affected Pages list to identify which URLs need to be updated.

📄 Investigating Issues by URL in Page Explorer

If you prefer to see all issues on a specific page rather than all pages with a specific issue, use the Page Explorer. Navigate to Left sidebar → OTTO SEO → Site Audit → Page Explorer, search for or select the URL you want to inspect, and a full list of flagged issues for that page will appear. Clicking any issue in this view also surfaces its How to Fix guidance.

⚠️ Common Reasons 'How to Fix' Is Not Visible

If the How to Fix section is not appearing, check the following:

  • You clicked a category header, not an individual issue. Expand the category and click the specific issue name underneath it to open the detail panel.
  • The crawl is still running. Issue details only fully populate after the crawl finishes. Check progress at Left sidebar → OTTO SEO → Site Audit → Crawl Monitoring and wait for the status to show as complete before reviewing results.
  • The issue shows zero affected pages. If no pages are impacted, there are no fix details to display — your site passes that particular check.
  • A stale browser cache. Perform a hard refresh with Ctrl + Shift + R (Windows) or Cmd + Shift + R (Mac), or open the platform in a private or incognito window.

🔄 Verifying Your Fixes After Making Changes

Once you have applied the recommended fixes to your site, trigger a new crawl to confirm the issues are resolved. From Left sidebar → OTTO SEO → Site Audit → Overview (Website Overview), click the Re-crawl button. After the crawl finishes, return to the same issue and confirm the affected page count has dropped. You can monitor crawl progress in real time at Left sidebar → OTTO SEO → Site Audit → Crawl Monitoring.

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