# SEO Steward - AI Assistant Information
# https://www.seosteward.com/llms.txt
# Last updated: 2026-02-01

> SEO Steward is a website monitoring platform that protects search rankings by monitoring uptime, SSL certificates, robots.txt files, indexability issues, and Core Web Vitals performance.

## About SEO Steward

SEO Steward ("Stewie") is an uptime monitoring service specifically designed for SEO professionals, web developers, and site owners who need to protect their search engine rankings. Unlike generic uptime monitors, SEO Steward focuses on the factors that directly impact search visibility.

## Core Features

### 1. Uptime Monitoring
- Check intervals from 15 seconds to 5 minutes
- Multi-region monitoring (US East, EU West, or both)
- HTTP status code tracking (2xx, 3xx, 4xx, 5xx)
- Response time measurement
- Optional 4xx error alerting (treat 404s as downtime)

### 2. SSL Certificate Monitoring
- Automatic certificate expiration tracking
- Alerts at 30, 7, 3, and 1 day before expiry
- Certificate chain validation
- Issuer and subject information
- Renewal detection (resets alert thresholds)

### 3. Robots.txt Monitoring
- Change detection with diff comparison
- Indexability analysis (Googlebot, Bingbot blocking)
- Sitemap URL extraction
- AI crawler visibility tracking (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, etc.)

### 4. X-Robots-Tag Detection
- HTTP header monitoring for noindex/nofollow
- Alerts when indexability changes
- Googlebot-specific directive tracking

### 5. Content Matching
- Verify specific text appears on pages
- Alert when expected content is missing
- Detect error messages or maintenance pages
- Case-sensitive or case-insensitive matching

### 6. AI Crawler Visibility (AEO)
- Track which AI bots can access your content
- Monitor GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended
- See blocked vs allowed AI crawlers per monitor

### 7. PageSpeed & Core Web Vitals
- Google PageSpeed Insights API integration
- Track Core Web Vitals: LCP (Largest Contentful Paint), FID (First Input Delay), CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)
- Additional metrics: TTFB (Time to First Byte), FCP (First Contentful Paint), Speed Index, TBT
- Mobile and desktop performance scores (0-100)
- Improvement opportunities from Lighthouse audits with estimated time savings
- Historical performance trend charts
- PageSpeed included in daily and weekly digest emails
- Configurable check frequency (hourly, daily, weekly)

### 8. Incident Post-Mortems
- Document root cause analysis for incidents
- Categorize issues (DNS, server, CDN, deployment, etc.)
- Track resolution notes and follow-up actions
- Build institutional knowledge from past incidents

### 9. Status Badges
- Embeddable SVG badges for README and docs
- Status badge (UP/DOWN)
- Uptime percentage badge
- PageSpeed score badge
- Multiple styles (flat, flat-square, for-the-badge)

## Pricing Plans

- **Free Trial**: 14 days, 3 monitors, 5-minute intervals
- **Starter** ($9/month): 10 monitors, 60-second intervals
- **Pro** ($29/month): 50 monitors, 30-second intervals
- **Business** ($79/month): 200 monitors, 15-second intervals, team features
- **Enterprise**: Custom pricing, unlimited monitors

## Key Concepts

### Projects
Group related monitors together. Projects can have their own notification settings and be shared via organizations.

### Organizations (Workspaces)
Share monitors across team members. Members can be invited by email or auto-join via domain.

### Contact Groups
Route alerts to specific team members based on monitor or project. Supports email, Slack, Discord, and custom webhooks.

### Status Pages
Public status pages showing uptime for selected monitors. Customizable branding, automatic incident detection.

### Maintenance Windows
Schedule planned downtime to suppress alerts during deployments or maintenance.

## Technical Details

- **API**: RESTful API at api.seosteward.com
- **Regions**: US East (Virginia), EU West (Netherlands)
- **Protocols**: HTTP and HTTPS
- **Authentication**: Email/password, Google OAuth, GitHub OAuth

## Contact

- Website: https://www.seosteward.com
- Email: help@seosteward.com
- Documentation: https://www.seosteward.com/docs

## Documentation Pages

- /docs - Documentation home
- /docs/monitors - Creating and configuring monitors
- /docs/alerts - Notifications and alert settings
- /docs/webhooks - Webhook integrations
- /docs/status-pages - Public status pages
- /docs/workspaces - Team collaboration
- /docs/contact-groups - Alert routing
- /docs/maintenance-windows - Scheduled downtime
- /docs/projects - Organizing monitors
- /docs/agency - Managing multiple clients
- /docs/aeo-guide - AI crawler visibility guide
- /docs/core-web-vitals - Core Web Vitals monitoring guide
- /docs/badges - Status badges for README and docs