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SEO Validation

Open in QuickMonitoring→ Sites → [Your Site] → Scans → Validation

Every crawled page is checked against a suite of SEO rules — missing title tags, duplicate titles, missing meta descriptions, missing H1s, pages blocked by robots.txt, missing canonical URLs, and more. For web agencies managing client sites, this is table stakes.

What you'll see​

Go to Sites → your site → Validation (sidebar) → filter by type "SEO".

Each issue shows:

  • The affected page URL
  • What's missing or misconfigured
  • Severity: critical, warning, or info

Critical issues (missing titles, blocked pages) hurt search rankings directly. Warnings (duplicate descriptions, missing canonical) are important but lower urgency.

How to use it​

  1. Run a scan
  2. Go to Sites → your site → Validation (sidebar)
  3. Filter by "SEO" using the type selector
  4. Review issues — click any issue to see the full details and the affected page URL

Export the results to share with clients. A filterable table of SEO issues by page makes for a clean deliverable.

Pass condition​

✅ You've earned this achievement when the Validation section shows SEO-type validation results for at least one page (pass or fail).

Common issues​

  • "No SEO issues found" on a page you know is broken — Make sure the crawl completed fully. A partial crawl (stopped early due to depth limit or a crawl error) may have missed pages. Check Sites → your site → Scans (sidebar) and select the scan to confirm the expected pages are in the crawl.

  • Duplicate title warnings on a CMS site — Normal if pagination pages, tag archives, or category pages share titles. The fix is canonical tags pointing to the primary URL, or unique titles per page if the CMS supports it.

  • Missing H1 on every page — If the H1 is rendered by JavaScript after page load, the crawler may not capture it. Check with view-source: in your browser to see if the H1 is in the raw HTML or dynamically injected.

  • Pages blocked by robots.txt — If your client has accidentally blocked important pages in robots.txt, this check will surface it. Check yourdomain.com/robots.txt and compare against the flagged URLs.