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Technical SEO Monitoring

Crawl, index, sitemap & alerting.

from $79.00 / per month
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  • Ongoing
  • Billed per 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 grows a link. A certificate expires on a subdomain. A robots.txt edit blocks a directory that mattered. None of these announce themselves, and all of them cost traffic for weeks before anyone connects the drop to the cause.

This service crawls your site every week and compares the result against the previous crawl. Broken links, server errors, redirect chains, duplicate titles, missing canonicals, orphaned pages and pages that have quietly become noindexed are all surfaced. Alongside that we check indexation: how many of your pages the search engine actually holds, and whether that number has moved for a reason.

Your sitemap and robots file are watched for unexpected changes, which is the single cheapest early warning available because a bad edit to either can take a section of the site out of the index overnight. Anything material triggers an alert rather than waiting for the month end, and the monthly crawl report gives you the trend and a prioritised list of what to fix.

Who it is for

Which sites benefit from continuous crawling

Sites that deploy often

Frequent releases mean frequent chances for a template change to break something invisible.

Large or generated sites

Hundreds or thousands of URLs where nobody could plausibly check them by hand.

Sites with several people editing

When developers, marketers and an agency all have access, changes happen that nobody logged.

What is included

What the monitoring covers

What you receive

  • Monthly crawl report
How it runs

From order to hand-off

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

Why monitoring beats an annual audit

Weekly, not once a year

A yearly audit finds a problem eleven months after it started. A weekly crawl finds it in days.

Change detection, not just a list

Each crawl is compared to the last, so what is new is separated from what has always been there.

No minimum term

Billed monthly and cancellable, so it can cover a risky migration period and then stop.

FAQs

Common questions

How large a site can you crawl?
The monthly fee covers a crawl budget suited to a typical small or mid-sized site. If you have tens of thousands of URLs, tell us before ordering and we will confirm whether it fits or needs additional units.
Do you fix the problems you find?
No. This service finds and prioritises them. Fixing is separate work, which keeps the monthly cost low and means you are not paying for repairs in a month where nothing broke.
How are alerts delivered?
By email to the addresses you nominate, when something material changes. Routine noise is filtered out so the alerts remain worth opening.
Do you need access to our site?
The crawl runs from outside like any search engine crawler, so no site access is needed. Read access to Search Console is useful for indexation and coverage data, but it is optional.
Will the crawler slow our site down?
No. Crawl rate is throttled deliberately, and we will match it to any limit your hosting provider sets. Tell us if there is a preferred window and we will schedule inside it.
How does this differ from Core Web Vitals Fix?
This watches for structural and indexation faults on an ongoing basis. Core Web Vitals Fix is a one-time engagement that measures and repairs page performance. They cover different problems.

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