monitoring // scheduled re-audits + alerts
Know when a page gets worse, not a month later.
Save a site and dotmap re-audits it daily or weekly. Each run is compared with the last one, and you get an email or Slack message when the score drops, a page breaks, or a page stops being citable.
diff // run vs previous run
What each run compares
A single audit is a snapshot. Monitoring is the difference between two snapshots, page by page.
- Pages that regressed
- A page whose score dropped since the last audit.
- Pages that broke
- A URL that used to load and now returns an error.
- Pages that lost citability
- A page an AI answer could quote before and cannot now.
- New issues
- A problem type that appears for the first time, with the pages it affects.
- New and removed pages
- URLs that appeared or disappeared between runs.
settings // frequency, threshold, channel
You set how sensitive it is.
- 01
Pick a frequency
Daily or weekly, per site.
- 02
Set a threshold
The score drop that should trigger an alert, from 1 to 50 points.
- 03
Choose where alerts go
Email, a Slack webhook, or both.
An alert tells you what changed on the site. To see what it did to traffic or sales, compare the same dates in Search Console and your analytics.
workspace // saved history + alerts
A good launch is only the baseline.
Sign in and dotmap keeps every audit. It reads your sitemaps, follows internal links and scores up to 1,000 pages, then re-runs on a schedule and tells you when a page regresses, breaks or stops being citable. If a site is larger than the limit, the report says what was left out.
Sign in to track a site- 01Score history and a dot map for each site
- 02What changed since the last audit, page by page
- 03Slack and email alerts on regressions
- 04Rewrites for weak pages, re-scored before you see them
faq // 8 questions
Questions about SEO monitoring
- What is SEO monitoring?
- SEO monitoring is re-checking a site on a schedule and comparing each check with the last, so a page that gets worse is noticed within a day or a week instead of at the next manual audit. dotmap does this by re-auditing every page of a saved site and reporting what changed.
- What are SEO alerts?
- SEO alerts are messages sent when something on a site changes in a way that can hurt it in search, so you hear about it without checking by hand. dotmap's SEO monitoring alerts cover three changes: a page's score dropped, a page stopped loading, or a page stopped being citable by AI answers.
- How often does dotmap re-audit a site?
- Daily or weekly. You choose the frequency for each saved site, and you can change it or turn monitoring off at any time.
- What triggers an alert?
- An alert is sent when a page's score drops by at least the threshold you set, from 1 to 50 points, when a page that used to load returns an error, or when a page an AI answer could quote stops being citable.
- Where do alerts go?
- To your account email, to a Slack channel through a webhook, or to both. Each alert lists the pages that dropped, broke or stopped being citable, with a link to the site's history.
- Does dotmap track keyword rankings?
- No. dotmap monitors the pages themselves, not their positions in search results. It is not a rank tracker and does not alert on ranking changes. Use Google Search Console for positions and dotmap to see what changed on the page.
- Is monitoring free?
- Yes, while dotmap is in beta. You need to sign in with Google, and an account can save up to 10 sites.
- Does a regression alert mean I lost traffic?
- No. An alert says what changed on the page. To see whether traffic or sales changed, compare the same dates in Google Search Console and your analytics.
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