When your website goes down, you're not just losing visitors - you could be losing search rankings too. Here's why uptime monitoring is crucial for SEO.
How Downtime Affects SEO
Search engine bots regularly crawl your site. If they encounter errors during a crawl:
- Pages may be temporarily de-indexed
- Crawl budget is wasted on error pages
- Your site's perceived reliability decreases
The 60-Second Rule
With monitoring intervals of 60 seconds, you can detect and respond to outages before they significantly impact your SEO.
Setting Up Effective Monitoring
A good monitoring setup includes:
- Multiple check locations worldwide
- Instant alert notifications
- Historical uptime tracking
- Response time monitoring