Catch technical problems before search engines do.
Monitor uptime, redirects, SSL, DNS and other issues that can interfere with crawling, indexing and organic traffic.
A crawler does not file a support ticket. It just stops coming back. Pinger watches the things that quietly cost you crawl budget, indexation and rankings, and tells you the day they change rather than the quarter you notice.
What goes wrong, and how you find out
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robots.txt changes overnight
Someone ships a staging config and
Disallow: /goes live. Pinger alerts on the change itself, and separately on whether Googlebot's actual access changed, which is the part that matters. -
A redirect chain grows a hop
Every extra hop dilutes signals and slows crawling. Trace the full chain and watch for loops.
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The certificate expires on a Saturday
An expired certificate is an outage to a crawler as much as to a visitor. Pinger warns you well before the date.
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DNS changes without a ticket
A records and nameservers moving is either a migration you knew about or one you did not. Either way you should hear about it first.
The part most monitoring misses
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AI crawlers are a separate decision
Blocking GPTBot keeps your writing out of training data. Blocking OAI-SearchBot removes you from ChatGPT's answers. Those are opposite outcomes and robots.txt files confuse them constantly. Pinger resolves access for 28 crawlers and alerts when a search engine or AI assistant is newly blocked.
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Uptime you can put in a report
Ninety days of history per site, so a ranking drop can be checked against what the site was actually doing that week.
Tools you can run right now
No account needed.
Your site shouldn't be the one telling you it's down.
Start monitoring your sites with Pinger.