🧭 Overview

Site Audit and OTTO are two separate tools that collect and display data differently. If you have made changes inside Search Atlas or applied OTTO optimizations but your Site Audit still shows the same errors after several days, it does not mean the tool is broken. It means a few important steps may be missing before those changes can appear in your audit results.

This article explains how Site Audit and OTTO work together, what causes the disconnect, and exactly what to do to get your audit results up to date — including resolving Google Rich Results errors and CORS policy errors.

🔍 Why Site Audit and OTTO Show Different Results

Site Audit crawls your live website to detect technical issues. It reads what is actually published and accessible on your domain at the time of the crawl.

OTTO, on the other hand, generates and stages optimizations inside Search Atlas. OTTO changes are not live on your website until you explicitly publish them. If optimizations remain in a staged or draft state, your live site is unchanged, and Site Audit will continue to report the same errors it found on the previous crawl.

This is the most common reason customers see no improvement in Site Audit results after working in OTTO for multiple days.

✅ Step 1 — Confirm Your OTTO Changes Are Published

1. Go to Left sidebar → OTTO SEO → SEO Automation (URL: /seo-automation-v3).
2. Review your list of OTTO optimizations and check the status of each item.
3. Any optimization showing a staged, pending, or draft status has not been pushed to your live site yet.
4. Select the optimizations you want to apply and click Publish (or the equivalent deploy action shown in the UI).
5. Wait for confirmation that the changes have been successfully pushed before moving to the next step.

Important: Skipping this step means your live website never received the changes. Site Audit will keep reporting the same issues no matter how many times it recrawls.

🕷️ Step 2 — Trigger a New Site Audit Crawl

Site Audit does not automatically detect that changes were made. After you have confirmed your OTTO optimizations are published to your live site, you must manually start a new crawl so the audit can pick up the updated state of your pages.

1. Navigate to your Site Audit dashboard inside Search Atlas.
2. Locate the project for the domain you updated.
3. Use the available option in the interface to launch a fresh crawl for that project.
4. Wait for the crawl to complete. Depending on the size of your site, this may take several minutes to a few hours.
5. Once the crawl finishes, review the updated results. Previously flagged errors that were correctly fixed should now be resolved.

If you need further assistance, open the chat widget in the bottom-right corner of the platform and type human teammate to be connected with a member of our team.