Optimizing your website for search engines requires effective monitoring of SEO tags. PageCrawl makes it easy to track changes to title tags, meta descriptions, canonical URLs, robots directives, Open Graph tags, and headings.
One-Click SEO Monitoring
The fastest way to monitor SEO tags is with the built-in SEO Tags tracking mode:
- Log in to your PageCrawl account.
- Click on Track New Page and enter the page URL.
- Select SEO Tags as the tracking type.
- Save and start monitoring.
PageCrawl will automatically extract and track:
- Title tag
- Meta description
- Meta keywords (if present)
- Canonical URL
- Robots directive
- H1 heading
- Open Graph tags (og:title, og:description, og:image, og:url, og:type)
When any of these fields change, you will see exactly which tag was modified and what the previous and new values are.
If you plan to monitor SEO tags for multiple pages, we recommend creating a Template with the SEO Tags tracking type. This lets you reuse the configuration across many pages without repeating setup.
Advanced: Track Individual SEO Elements
If you only need to monitor specific SEO tags (rather than all of them), you can create individual tracked elements using CSS or XPath selectors.
Use "Text" for the following tracked elements:
SEO
- Title:
title - Meta description:
/html/head/meta[@name="description"]/@content - Meta keywords:
/html/head/meta[@name="keywords"]/@content - Meta robots:
/html/head/meta[@name="robots"]/@content - Meta viewport:
/html/head/meta[@name="viewport"]/@content
Social Media Tags
- og:title:
/html/head/meta[@property="og:title"]/@content - og:type:
/html/head/meta[@property="og:type"]/@content - og:image:
/html/head/meta[@property="og:image"]/@content - og:url:
/html/head/meta[@property="og:url"]/@content
Use "Text (all elements)" for the following tracked elements:
Headings
- h1 tags:
h1 - h2 tags:
h2 - h3 tags:
h3 - h4 tags:
h4 - h5 tags:
h5