Always-on monitoring of how Googlebot sees your site. Sentry catches noindex slips, canonical mismatches, coverage errors, and rendering gaps before they cost you rankings. Cortex handles the fix.
Continuous audits of Googlebot's view of your site against the 12 things that decide whether you get indexed and ranked. Each rule maps to a primary Google Search Central doc. Sentry catches what fails. Cortex fixes it.
User-agent: Googlebot is not Disallowed, and the wildcard User-agent: * directive does not block any crawl-eligible path. Per Google's robots.txt spec.
Canonical content carries no `noindex` meta tag and no `X-Robots-Tag: noindex` response header. Google's documented #1 method to remove a page from Search.
Recent server-log Googlebot hits resolve back to googlebot.com or google.com and match Google's published googlebot.json IP ranges. Filters spoofed crawler UAs.
A Search Console property exists for the apex domain with at least one verified owner. Required for URL Inspection, manual-action visibility, and AI-feature performance reporting.
A valid /sitemap.xml or /sitemap_index.xml is submitted in GSC with status 'Success', and `<lastmod>` dates reflect actual content updates. Stale lastmod tells Google not to recrawl.
Critical headings and body copy appear in the initial HTML or are emitted within Google's Web Rendering Service Chromium-render budget. Heavy client-side hydration hides content from the indexer.
URL Inspection API reports Google's selected canonical equals the site-declared canonical across the discovered URL set. Mismatches scatter ranking signal across duplicates.
GSC Page Indexing report shows zero 'Error' status for submitted URLs - no 4xx, no server errors, no soft 404s detected on content pages.
CrUX 28-day p75 LCP < 2.5s, INP < 200ms, CLS < 0.1. Field data from real Chrome users, not lab simulation. A documented page-experience signal in Google's ranking systems.
GSC Manual Actions and Security Issues reports clean. A penalty here suppresses ranking regardless of any other signal; trumps every other rule.
Page-level JSON-LD parses cleanly against schema.org and matches a Google-supported rich-result type. Drives rich-result eligibility on top of organic ranking.
Every page in the submitted sitemap is reachable from the homepage in three or fewer clicks via crawlable `<a>` links. Deep-buried pages get crawled less, ranked weaker.
Paste your homepage URL. Sentry verifies robots.txt allowance, noindex absence, canonical match, render-budget reachability, coverage errors, sitemap freshness, and Core Web Vitals, then ships a per-rule report. No signup, instant results, always free.
Sentry fetches your site, runs every GOOGLEBOT rule, and renders the full result page before your next sip of coffee.
Each failed rule ships with a prescription paragraph. Hand it to engineering and the gap is closed before lunch.
Add your site to the daily Sentry sweep with one click. New regressions get caught the next morning.
12 rules in the GOOGLEBOT Sentry. Daily 3:30 AM ET sweep.
One brain. Thirty-six pairs of eyes. Sentries monitor every visibility signal that decides whether search engines, AI engines, and ad platforms show you. Cortex reads what they see, weighs it against a unified corpus of platform documentation, and acts. Every move follows a defined decision protocol: action stated, reason given, impact named.