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Technical SEO Monitoring

Weekly crawling that catches broken links, indexation drops, sitemap errors and technical faults early, with alerts sent when something material changes.

from $79.00 / per month
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  • Ongoing
  • Billed per month
  • Delivered digitally
Overview

A smoke alarm for the technical side of your site

Technical SEO problems are rarely dramatic when they happen. A developer ships a change that adds a noindex tag to a template. A redirect chain appears after a site update. A robots.txt edit blocks a directory that mattered. A sitemap changes unexpectedly. None of these necessarily announce themselves, and some can cost traffic for weeks before anyone connects the change to the cause.

This service crawls your site every week and compares the result with the previous crawl. Broken links, server errors, redirect chains, duplicate titles, missing canonicals, orphaned pages and pages that have quietly become noindexed are surfaced. We also check indexation trends so changes in the number of pages being indexed can be investigated rather than overlooked.

Your sitemap and robots.txt are monitored for unexpected changes because a bad edit to either can prevent search engines from accessing or indexing an important section of the site. Material changes trigger an alert rather than waiting for the monthly report, while the monthly crawl report provides the broader trend and a prioritised list of issues requiring attention.

The ongoing counterpart to Core Web Vitals Fix within Technical SEO: continuous detection that catches the next technical regression rather than only fixing an existing backlog.

Who it is for

Which sites benefit from continuous crawling

Sites that deploy often

Frequent releases mean frequent opportunities for a template or configuration change to create an invisible SEO problem.

Large or generated sites

Hundreds or thousands of URLs make manual checking impractical, particularly when pages are created or modified automatically.

Sites with several people editing

When developers, marketers and external agencies all have access, changes can happen without one person seeing the complete technical picture.

What is included

What the monitoring covers

What you receive

  • Monthly crawl report
  • Material-change alerts
How it runs

From order to hand-off

  1. 01
    Crawl
  2. 02
    Diagnose
  3. 03
    Notify
Why HL Digital

Why HL Digital

Weekly, not once a year

A periodic audit can discover a problem long after it started. Weekly crawling is designed to identify meaningful changes while they are still relatively recent.

Change detection, not just an issue list

Each crawl is compared with the previous one, so newly introduced problems are separated from issues that have existed for some time.

No minimum term

Billed monthly and cancellable, so the service can be used during a migration, redesign or high-risk development period and stopped when the additional monitoring is no longer needed.

FAQs

Common questions

How large a site can you crawl?
Standard monthly pricing covers sites up to 5,000 URLs. Larger sites can be quoted at a proportionate rate.
Do you fix the problems you find?
This service identifies, prioritises and alerts you to problems. Fixes are quoted separately, depending on the issue and the work required.
How are alerts delivered?
Material issues are delivered by email when detected rather than being held until the monthly report.
Do you need access to our site?
No login access is required for the standard crawl. We only need the site URL. Access is required if you want us to implement the fixes directly.
Will the crawler slow our site down?
No. Crawls are rate-limited and configured to avoid placing unnecessary load on the server.
Can monitoring be increased during a migration or major release?
Yes. Crawl frequency can be increased temporarily during a high-risk period where weekly monitoring is not sufficient.
Does this cover subdomains?
Yes, subdomains can be included where they form part of the agreed monitoring scope.
Can this monitor sitemap and robots.txt changes?
Yes. Unexpected changes to sitemap files and robots.txt are monitored because either can have significant consequences for crawling and indexation.
What happens if an alert is a false positive?
The monitoring configuration can be refined when a legitimate site pattern repeatedly triggers an unnecessary alert, reducing noise over time.
Can you integrate alerts with our development team's issue tracker?
Email alerts are included as standard. Integration with a specific issue-tracking or development workflow can be scoped separately where required.
How does this differ from Core Web Vitals Fix?
Technical SEO Monitoring is an ongoing detection service for newly introduced technical problems. Core Web Vitals Fix is a one-time engagement focused specifically on diagnosing and fixing existing performance and stability problems.

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