Product Updates

We've added a small but useful check to SiteVitals seo monitoring: viewport meta tag detection. This single tag tells a mobile browser how to render the page. Without it, phones default to showing the page as if it were on a desktop screen, then shrinking the whole thing down to fit. It sounds more technical than it is. Here's what it means.

An XML sitemap is one of the last things most people think about when it comes to their website. It's just something that most CMS platforms generate automatically. You tick the box and move on. For the majority of sites, it is never really reviewed again - perhaps once when you submit it to Google Search Console, but that's probably it. But the audience for your sitemap has changed significantly recently, and it probably deserves more respect.

Internal linking has always been one of those SEO fundamentals that gets mentioned in every checklist and then, largely, ignored. It sits below the fold of most audits — something to fix if you have time, after the title tags and the schema and the Core Web Vitals. We think that's the wrong priority order, and we've built a new check into SiteVitals to make the case.

When we built the original SEO dashboard, the brief was straightforward: flag the technical issues that hurt search rankings. Missing title tags. Broken links. Noindex directives left in by mistake. But the landscape has shifted over the past few months and the list of things site owners and administrators need to consider to appear in AI-assisted search keeps growing and getting more complicated.