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Free SEO Article Score Checker
Check a live article or paste a draft. Review keyword coverage, headings and readability, then work through the suggested improvements.
- Live pages or drafts
- Ordered fix list
- Missing sections
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This runs the same scorer Rootscript uses on its own drafts before anything reaches the approval queue. You get a score, the five things it is made of, and an ordered list of what to change — not a dashboard to interpret.
What you get back
Six things, each one you can act on today.
An ordered fix list
Every problem the scorer found, sorted so the first item is the one worth doing first, each written as an instruction rather than a metric.
Why it matters. Most tools hand you a score and leave the interpretation to you. Ranking the work is the part that actually saves an afternoon.
Sections that are missing
The angles a reader expects on almost any subject — what it means, why it matters, how to do it, what goes wrong, how to measure it, a worked example — checked against your headings, with drafts of the ones you skipped.
Why it matters. Use these suggestions to review coverage. A missing heading is a prompt for editorial judgment, not a diagnosis of why the page ranks where it does.
Five things the score is made of
Coverage, structure, opening, readability, and links — each scored separately, so you can see which one is dragging.
Why it matters. A 62 tells you nothing. A 62 that is 15/35 on coverage tells you the article is thin, not badly written.
Title and H1 against the phrase
The title tag, the H1, how many H1s exist, and whether either actually mentions what the article is meant to rank for.
Why it matters. An article that never says its own subject in a heading is asking a search engine to guess. It usually guesses wrong.
The outline a skimmer sees
Every H1 to H3 in order, with the ones that mention the search phrase highlighted.
Why it matters. Nobody reads top to bottom. If the headings alone do not tell the story, most visitors never reach the good part.
Drafts, not just live pages
Paste a draft — Markdown or HTML — and score it before it is published anywhere.
Why it matters. Fixing structure is cheap before publishing and awkward afterwards, once the URL is indexed and linked.
Straight answers
The questions people actually ask.
What does the score actually measure?
How well the article is built for the phrase you gave it: whether it covers the subject properly, whether the structure holds up, whether the opening makes the topic obvious, how readable the paragraphs are, and whether it links anywhere. It is the same scorer Rootscript runs on its own drafts before they reach your approval queue.
Will a higher score make me rank?
Not by itself. The score says the article is well built. Ranking also depends on whether anyone searches the phrase, who else is competing for it, how much your domain is trusted, and how the page is linked from the rest of your site. A well-built article about something nobody searches for is still nothing.
What if I do not know what phrase to target?
Leave the field blank. The tool takes a guess from the H1 or title, scores against it, and shows you what it guessed so you can correct it and run it again. If the guess looks wrong, that is itself a finding — it means the article's own headings do not make its subject clear.
Should I add every missing phrase it lists?
No. The coverage list is a prompt, not a checklist. Add the ones a reader would genuinely expect the article to cover, and ignore the rest. Writing sentences to satisfy a tool is exactly the kind of content that stops working.
Does it work on a draft that is not published?
Yes. Switch to the paste tab and drop in Markdown or HTML. Headings are read either way, so the structural checks work on a draft the same as on a live page.
Next step
Fixing one article does not fix the site.
This tool tells you what is wrong with the page in front of you. The bigger question is which pages should exist at all — and that is what Rootscript works on. It reads your site and your Search Console data, finds the searches your customers are making that you do not answer, plans the pages, writes them, and puts every draft in front of you before it goes live.
Free for your first month. No card needed, and nothing publishes until you press publish.
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