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Every module built, every screen redesigned: the new VitalSentinel
All 12 modules are finished, and the whole app has been rebuilt around one idea: tell you in plain words what changed and what to fix first. Plus Theo, our AI assistant, and a free SEO extension for Chrome.
Martin StepanekRead articleMeet Theo, the AI assistant that watches your sites with you
Theo is the AI assistant inside VitalSentinel. It knows the page you are on, reads your own monitoring data and answers in plain words. It only reads, never changes anything, and it is included on every plan. Here is how it works, and where the name comes from.
Martin StepanekWordPress robots.txt: what to put in it and how to edit it
Where the WordPress robots.txt comes from, three ways to edit it, a safe file to copy, rules for AI crawlers, and the mistakes that quietly cost rankings.
Martin StepanekVitalSentinel Bot is now a Cloudflare verified bot
VitalSentinel Bot now signs its requests with Web Bot Auth, and Cloudflare has approved it as a verified bot. What that means for a site behind Cloudflare.
Martin StepanekIntroducing Site Health Monitoring: a technical SEO crawl that never stops
VitalSentinel now checks your site all day, before and after JavaScript, and tells you when a problem spreads across your pages, ranked by the Google clicks at stake. With it, the monitoring circle is complete: 12 modules, on every plan, Free included.
Martin StepanekIntroducing Page Monitoring: know when a page you care about changes
VitalSentinel now watches the pages that matter most and tells you when their title, canonical, noindex, structured data, content or your own elements change, with a before and after. Available on every plan, Free included.
Martin StepanekIntroducing Sitemap Monitoring: know every URL that enters or leaves your sitemaps
VitalSentinel now reads your XML sitemaps every day, tells you which URLs were added, removed or brought back, and flags removed URLs that still get Google clicks. On every plan, Free included, with no plan limits.
Martin StepanekIntroducing Server Log Monitoring: see what crawlers actually do on your site
VitalSentinel now reads your server logs to show which search engine and AI crawlers hit your site, how your server answered them, and which ones are fake. Available on every plan, Free included.
Martin StepanekThe VitalSentinel MCP server and public API are live
Your AI assistant can now query your real monitoring data, and every plan gets a public REST API. Both ship today, Free plan included.
Martin StepanekVitalSentinel 2.0: the second generation is here
Dozens of new features, a fully redesigned experience, and hundreds of fixes. Here's what shipped in the second generation of VitalSentinel.
Martin StepanekIntroducing VitalSentinel: your website's revenue insurance
After years of juggling fragmented monitoring tools, I built the platform I always wanted. Today, VitalSentinel is live.
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