- For beginners
- 8 minutes
- No SEO knowledge needed
SEO monitoring: let your website be checked automatically
Websites rarely break all at once. Usually it happens quietly during an update. With monitoring, Crawl Foundry checks the site regularly and emails you when new problems appear.
Let's startIn a nutshell
Monitoring is a smoke alarm for your website.
A smoke alarm only goes off when there's a fire. In the same way, Crawl Foundry checks your website on a fixed schedule and emails you when a new problem appears, for example a blocked page or a broken link.
Why it matters: One wrong checkbox in the CMS can make a page disappear from Google. The sooner you notice, the smaller the damage.
Compare technical changes with SEO Monitoring. Keep search-position observations separate with Keyword Tracking; a simultaneous change does not establish its cause.
First things first
What to look out for first
1.Match the rhythm to the changes
Do thisCheck weekly when new content or updates arrive regularly.
Not thisChecking daily for a website that changes twice a year.
2.Only alerts you'll act on
Do thisNotifications for new errors such as blocked pages or broken links.
Not thisGetting alerted about every small thing until you delete the emails unread.
3.The alert reaches the right person
Do thisThe email goes to the person who can actually fix the problem.
Not thisEvery alert lands in an inbox nobody reads.
Step by step
How to do it in Crawl Foundry
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Add a schedule
In Site Audit, open “Automation” and click “Add schedule”. Choose how often to check, for example weekly, and click “Activate schedule”. Scheduled audits only run for verified domains.
Done when: “Automation” shows when the next run starts.
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Switch on email notifications
In the same area, click “Add notification”. Choose who gets the email and click “Activate notifications”. From now on, Crawl Foundry emails you after an audit when it finds new problems.
Done when: The notification is active and you're on the recipient list.
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Respond to an alert
Open the audit the email is about. Look at which pages are affected and fix the errors first. The next run shows whether the problem has gone.
Done when: The next audit no longer shows the problem.
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Common mistakes
Mistakes that happen a lot at the start
Setting up monitoring without a verified domain.
Better: Scheduled audits are skipped while the domain isn't verified. Verify it first.
Ignoring alerts because there are too many.
Better: Only get notified about the problems that really matter. Better a few alerts you take seriously.
Waiting for an alert after the first run.
Better: The first audit is the starting point. Alerts only come once there's something to compare.
Mini glossary
Terms you need here
- Monitoring
- Regular, automatic checking of a website.
- Schedule
- Sets how often and when Crawl Foundry starts an audit.
- Notification
- An email Crawl Foundry sends when an audit finds new problems.
- Previous audit
- The point of comparison. Every new audit is compared with the one before, which is how Crawl Foundry spots what's new.
Done
Set up monitoring for your most important website.
A schedule and one notification are enough to start. You can fine-tune everything else later.