# Monitoring SEO Tags for Changes

Source: PageCrawl.io Help Center
URL: https://pagecrawl.io/help/tutorials/article/tracking-seo-keywords-for-each-website-page

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[Image: Tracked Elements section where the SEO Tags tracking type is selected from the TYPE dropdown]

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:

1. Log in to your PageCrawl account.
2. Click on **Track New Page** and enter the page URL.
3. Select **SEO Tags** as the tracking type.
4. 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 matches)" for the following tracked elements:

**Headings**

- h1 tags: `h1`
- h2 tags: `h2`
- h3 tags: `h3`
- h4 tags: `h4`
- h5 tags: `h5`

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