Why does GEO need monitoring rather than a single audit?
An audit shows what is on the site today. But a site changes without its owner knowing: after a CMS update, after an editor's fix, after a plugin adds noindex, or when server settings change. None of these announce themselves. So what is needed is not a second identical report but monitoring: the change against the previous scan, an email only when something changed, and a history that shows when it happened.
An audit is a one-off job: you fix the findings and never go back to it. That is why most audits end as a PDF nobody opens again.
But a site does not stop after the audit.
Four things that change without you knowing
A CMS update. After an update, WordPress or its theme can rewrite
robots.txt, the contents of <head>, or schema data. There is no
notification, because formally nothing broke.
An edited page. Someone changes a heading and the title becomes twenty
characters longer. Google cuts it from the end, and the end usually held the
topic.
A plugin that added noindex. The page stays alive and looks fine, but
drops out of Google's index. You will not see it from the outside until
someone looks at the header.
Changed server settings. After a configuration move,
Content-Security-Policy or Strict-Transport-Security stops being sent. The
site behaves exactly as before.
All four are found only when something checks.
What monitoring gives you
Monitoring is not the same audit every month. A second identical report would hand you the same list of sixty findings to read again. What is useful is the difference between two scans.
A change next to every score. The score is shown together with the change against the previous scan of the same domain. "GEO 78" does not tell you whether it improved or dropped from 91.
An email only when there is something to say. Our weekly email goes out on Monday at 10:00, and stale domains are rescanned the night before. If nothing changed during the week, there is no email. The reason is practical: you soon stop opening an email that says "nothing this week", and you stop opening the one reporting a real problem along with it.
Speed stays out of the email. The PageSpeed score is measured live, and the same page gives a different number on two runs. An alert saying "speed 77 to 78" is measurement noise, so a scan where only the speed changed triggers no email. The score itself stays in the report.
The history is kept. Scores, domain and findings are kept indefinitely, so a year later you can see when things changed and which of it was your work.
Why automatic rescans are not for everyone
One scan is roughly thirty-five requests to a server. Making them unasked means loading someone else's machine, and that machine often belongs not to our client but to our client's clients.
So automatic rescanning only runs where the domain has an active plan and the owner paid for exactly that. The free plan gets a freshness band instead: a scan stays fresh for a day, a paid one for two weeks.
Where monitoring meets traffic
There is one finding that says not "this might cost you" but "this is costing
you already": a page that had at least ten impressions in Google over 28 days
but answers with an error, redirects, or carries noindex.
Finding it is only possible by joining two sides — Search Console impressions and what the crawl found on the site. An audit knows what is on the site. Monitoring knows which part of it is already costing money.
How this works here
Four lines on monitoring and twelve things you can check yourself are listed on why us. You can start with a free scan, no signup needed.
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The full list of checks is on what we check.
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Frequently asked
How often should a site be rescanned?
After every meaningful change, and roughly once every two weeks for a live site. A daily scan adds nothing, because most checks answer questions whose answer does not change within a week.
Will a weekly email not just become another unread email?
It will, if it is sent every week regardless of content. So we only send it when work, score or traffic changed during the week. A week without changes produces no email.
What does monitoring show that an audit does not?
When it happened. An audit says the `title` is too long. Monitoring says it was fine until last Tuesday, which also points at the cause.
Can a site be monitored without Search Console?
It can, but you will see half the picture. The technical side — indexing, schema, speed, headers — is visible from the outside. Impressions, positions and which pages actually bring people in are Google's data, and without a connection nobody sees them.
Check yours
A free scan shows which of the things described here your site already does, and which it does not.