Get an alert when your site is accidentally set to noindex
If an update accidentally sets your site to noindex, SEO Guard sends a plain-English alert saying what changed and what to do. The free website scan shows your search settings right now.
How a site gets accidentally set to noindex in one update
Here is how a single bad deploy plays out, and where SEO Guard steps in.
Friday afternoon: the new site goes live
Your developer built the new design on a staging copy with noindex switched on, so search engines would ignore the unfinished pages. The site is copied across and launched. The setting comes with it.
Nothing looks wrong
Customers who already know your address see a fresh, fast website. Search engines read the noindex instruction on their next visit and start leaving your pages out of their results.
The alert arrives
SEO Guard notices the change and sends an alert. It says what happened, why it matters and what to do next, in words you can forward straight to your developer without translating.
Fixed before the phone goes quiet
Your developer switches the setting off. The free website scan confirms the site is open to search engines again, and they can list your pages when they next visit. You found out from us, not from a slow month.
What a noindex alert from us looks like
Every alert says what happened, why it matters and what to do next. A noindex alert reads like this.
Subject: Your website is now set to noindex.
What happened: Pages on your website now tell search engines not to list them. This has changed since our last check.
Why it matters: Search engines that see this may stop showing your pages, so new customers searching for you could find someone else instead.
What to do next: Ask whoever updated the site to switch noindex off, then run the free website scan to confirm your search settings are clear.
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Free plan
Watch up to 10 business tools by email, 1 website with uptime checks every 5 minutes, SSL and domain expiry, and one full scan. Also includes scam alerts for your country, bank and industry, the national due-date calendar with a calendar feed, a weekly digest, a monthly health report, public breach
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Free tools
Free website scan, SSL checker, domain expiry checker, email security checker (SPF, DKIM, DMARC), Is it down? website check, brand impersonation check and data breach check for an email address.
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Uptime Pro
Website down alerts that go further than the free plan's uptime checks, so you hear about an outage before customers do.
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Website Watch
Ongoing monitoring of your website and the software it runs, with alerts when something changes or falls out of date.
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Domain & SSL Guard
Expiry monitoring for SSL certificates and domain names, including .com.au. Alerts give you time to renew before a lapse takes the website or email offline.
See your search settings before your next update goes live.
The free website scan shows what your site runs, what is out of date and whether search engines are being asked to stay away.