Their developer shipped a noindex on Thursday.

You find out five weeks later, when the client asks why traffic fell — and you spend the first hour proving it wasn't you.

daily check, 06:003 changes
CRITICAL

This page is now telling Google not to index it. If unintended, it will drop out of search results within days.

clientsite.com/pricing

CRITICAL

Google Analytics 4 has disappeared from this page. Visits are still happening — they are just not being counted any more.

clientsite.com/

WARNING

Canonical URL changed to clientsite.com/. If wrong, Google will index that page instead of this one.

clientsite.com/services

Nothing looks broken. That's the problem.

The page loads. The design is fine. The client sees nothing wrong. What changed is invisible — instructions in the markup that decide whether Google can see the page, and whether visits get counted.

Thursday

A template change ships. One line moves.

Week two

Impressions drift down. Still inside normal variance.

Week four

Rankings gone. Analytics shows a cliff that never happened.

Week five

The client calls. You had no way to know.

What it checks, every morning

Not rankings. Not traffic. The mechanical things that break without a sound.

Indexability

noindex and nofollow arriving via meta tags, googlebot directives, or the X-Robots-Tag header.

Tracking tags

GA4, GTM, Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, Hotjar, Clarity, Plausible, Matomo — removed, or quietly pointed at a different property.

Canonicals

Removed, or aimed at a page that isn't this one.

Redirects and 404s

Chains appearing, URLs falling over in a rebuild, and routes that answer every request with the same page instead of a 404.

Structured data

JSON-LD that stopped parsing, or types that vanished and took the rich results with them.

Titles and descriptions

Rewritten by a CMS update nobody mentioned to you.

Every client gets a page you can forward.

A private link showing that client's pages, their robots.txt, sitemap and certificate, and every change of the last thirty days. It updates itself after each morning's check — so when a client asks what you are doing for them, you send a link instead of writing an email.

It reads the page's HTML. That's all it does.

Most monitoring tools run a headless browser and record everything that moves, which means they hold data about your clients' visitors — and so do you, by association.

It also means less is visible on heavily JavaScript-rendered sites — worth saying before you sign up rather than after.

Pricing

€99 / month

Up to 20 client sites, checked daily. No contract, no setup call, no onboarding fee.

Send one client site. I'll check it and send back whatever I find.

No signup, no card, no obligation. If nothing's wrong, I'll tell you that too.

contact@web-forge.ro