Check a site before launch, and again the day after
Most launch problems are one line of code: a noindex tag left on, a robots.txt that still blocks everything, redirects that go nowhere. Sitewalk crawls the site from ChatGPT and lists those blockers first.
Type this in ChatGPT
Check yoursite.com before launch and tell me what would hurt SEO
Blockers it reports first, when it finds them
- Pages set to noindex.
- A robots.txt that blocks search engines.
- Broken pages and broken links.
- Redirect chains.
- Canonical tags that point at redirects or broken pages.
- A missing sitemap, or sitemap errors.
Then every other issue, ranked by impact, with a plain fix for each.
After a migration or redesign
- Run it again on the live site and compare the health score with the last audit.
- Ask ChatGPT to monitor the site: it checks again every month and emails you only when something changes.
Honest limits
- A staging site works only if it is public and its robots.txt lets SitewalkBot in. A site behind a password cannot be crawled.
- It does not check your old-to-new redirect map, traffic or rankings. Use Search Console for those.
- Up to 500 pages an audit with a confirmed email.
Questions
What should I check before launching a website?
That search engines are allowed in, every page has a title and one canonical address, links and redirects work, and a sitemap exists. Sitewalk checks these in one crawl.
Can it audit a staging site?
Only a public one that allows the crawler.
How do I know nothing broke after a redesign?
Audit before and after, and compare the score and the list of new issues.
Is there a pre-launch SEO checklist tool?
Sitewalk runs the technical part of that checklist on the real site and tells you what failed.
Is it free?
5 audits a month are free.
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Sources: Sitewalk facts from this site.