Getting started
What SeoSwift does, and your first five minutes in the app.
SeoSwift watches the SEO metadata of the websites you care about, so you don't have to. Add a site, and we crawl it on a schedule, compare every page against the previous crawl, and tell you exactly what changed — before a quiet noindex or a vanished title tag turns into a rankings mystery.
What we track on every page
- Titles, meta descriptions, and H1 headings
- Canonical URLs and hreflang annotations
- Indexing controls: robots meta tags and X-Robots-Tag headers
- HTTP status codes (a page turning 404 never goes unnoticed)
- Open Graph and Twitter Card tags — the stuff that makes links look good when shared
- Site-level files:
robots.txtandllms.txt - Structured data (Schema.org) validation issues
Your first five minutes
- 1Sign up and tell us your agency's name — see Onboarding.
- 2Add your first site. We start crawling immediately and email you when the baseline is ready (usually 1–5 minutes).
- 3Open the site from your Dashboard and explore the tabs: Changelog, Metadata, Timeline, Structure, Page Inventory, and Health.
- 4Check Settings → Notifications so the right inbox hears about Critical changes.
The first crawl is your baseline
A baseline has nothing to compare against, so your Changelog starts empty. That's not a bug — it's a clean slate. Changes appear from the second crawl onward.How changes are labelled
Can hurt rankings right now — e.g. a noindex appeared, robots.txt blocks Googlebot, a page started returning 404.
Worth a look soon — e.g. a title left the recommended length, an Open Graph image was removed.
Good to know — e.g. a meta description was added or reworded.
Each site also gets a Health score (0–100) computed from indicators like missing titles, noindexed pages, 404s, canonical loops, and orphan pages — with drill-downs that list the exact offending URLs. No detective work required.
Still stuck? Email hello@seoswift.io — a human reads it.