Availability
Frequent uptime probes, regional checks, incident escalation, and SLA reporting need a service designed for outages. Daily RankLatch checks are not an uptime guarantee.
Website monitoring for agencies / honest scope
Protect the client SEO work your agency is expected to remember.
A complete monitoring stack may need uptime, security, SSL, performance, form, and search-outcome tools. RankLatch owns one narrower layer: daily evidence when a reviewed public SEO field changes after the agency approved it.
✓ No plugin✓ Read-only✓ Free plan · no card
Dailypublic SEO checks
1 sitecontinues on Free
3–30sites on paid plans
Exactbefore and after values
Separate the jobs
“Website monitoring” is six different responsibilities.
Buying one broad dashboard can be convenient, but it can also hide what is actually covered. Assign every layer to a tool and a person before promising a client that the site is monitored.
Domain, DNS, and SSL
Expiry dates, nameserver changes, DNS records, certificate chains, and renewal failures are infrastructure concerns outside RankLatch’s current scope.
Security and software
Malware, vulnerable plugins, firewall events, patches, backups, and authenticated WordPress health require trusted security and maintenance tooling.
Performance and journeys
Core Web Vitals, browser rendering, screenshots, checkout flows, and form submissions need field data or synthetic browser tests—not a server-response SEO snapshot.
SEO implementation drift
Protect reviewed responses, redirects, robots directives, canonicals, titles, descriptions, H1s, meaningful copy, social previews, schema presence, missing alt attributes, and the homepage favicon declaration.
Search outcomes
Impressions, clicks, rankings, conversions, and revenue explain impact. RankLatch supplies implementation evidence that can help investigate why those outcomes moved.
Self-serve roster fit
Price the pages you would actually protect.
Enter the number of client sites and the largest page set any one site needs. The calculator recommends the smallest current plan that fits both limits. It does not collect domains, email addresses, or client names.
- Site limitapplies to the whole workspace
- Page limitapplies separately to each site
- First 14 daysup to 3 sites and 25 pages per site
NO RESULT YET
USD month-to-month pricing. All plans use daily public-page checks. This estimate excludes uptime, SSL, DNS, security, visual, and authenticated-page monitoring because RankLatch does not provide those services.Use real roster and page requirements. The result never assumes that every site needs the plan maximum.
Prioritize before scaling
Start with five page roles per client—not every URL.
The right first set is determined by consequence, not crawl volume. Add more pages only when the agency can explain the risk being protected and who will act on an alert.
Homepage
Protect site-wide positioning, indexability, canonical, response, primary heading, and the hostname favicon declaration.
Top lead or revenue page
Start with the URL whose accidental exclusion or generic rewrite would create the clearest business cost.
Core service page
Preserve the approved service intent, metadata, headings, canonical, and meaningful content footprint.
Priority location page
Watch the geographic page the agency actively optimizes instead of every thin or obsolete location URL.
Launch-sensitive URL
Include a page involved in a redesign, migration, template change, or stakeholder handoff while the implementation risk is highest.
Operational contract
An alert is useful only when someone owns the response.
RankLatch records a supported field, the approved value, the current value, severity, and a restoration instruction. The agency still decides whether the change was intentional, restores it in the website’s own system, and measures the outcome elsewhere.
Read the exact comparison rules →MomentRankLatchAgency owner
SetupCapture selected public fieldsReview and approve the baseline
DailyCompare the latest responseNo action when nothing moved
IncidentPreserve exact before and afterConfirm intent and restore if needed
OutcomeRetain implementation evidenceUse Search Console and analytics
Straight answers
Before adding a client roster.
RankLatch is strongest when a narrow, explicit responsibility is more valuable than another all-in-one claim.
01What website monitoring does an agency need?+
Start with the failures the agency is accountable for. Availability monitoring covers outages. Domain, DNS, and certificate monitoring cover infrastructure expiry or configuration. Security monitoring covers compromise and vulnerable software. Performance and journey monitoring cover user experience and forms. SEO drift monitoring covers public search signals such as indexability, canonicals, metadata, headings, redirects, responses, social previews, schema presence, and meaningful copy. One product does not have to own every layer.
02Does RankLatch replace uptime or security monitoring?+
No. RankLatch records and compares selected public SEO fields once per day. It is not an uptime SLA, malware scanner, firewall, vulnerability manager, SSL or domain-expiry service, synthetic transaction monitor, Core Web Vitals platform, screenshot diff, rank tracker, or Search Console replacement.
03How many client pages should an agency monitor first?+
Begin with pages where silent SEO drift would create a real client problem: the homepage, highest-value lead or revenue pages, important service and location pages, and URLs involved in a launch or redesign. RankLatch discovers sitemap URLs, but the page limit should be treated as a prioritization boundary rather than a reason to monitor low-value archives.
04How does the RankLatch page limit work?+
The page allowance applies separately to each monitored site. Solo supports up to 3 sites and 25 pages per site; Studio supports 10 sites and 50 pages per site; Agency supports 30 sites and 100 pages per site. Free retains one site with up to 10 pages. The roster calculator recommends the smallest plan that fits both the site count and the largest required page set.
05Can an agency monitor a client website without a plugin?+
Yes, when the needed evidence is available in the public server response. RankLatch is read-only and requires no CMS account or plugin. That boundary also means it cannot inspect authenticated pages, execute JavaScript interactions, verify form completion, or observe private infrastructure.
06What happens during the free trial?+
A new account receives 14 days with up to 3 sites and 25 pages per site, without a card. You review and explicitly approve the captured baseline before daily monitoring begins. If you do not subscribe, the oldest site can continue on Free with up to 10 pages and 14 days of evidence.
07Should agencies charge clients for monitoring?+
That is a service-design decision, not something RankLatch can price for you. Agencies commonly include monitoring inside an ongoing maintenance or SEO retainer when someone is responsible for reviewing alerts and restoring accidental changes. Do not sell an alert as protection unless a named person will act on it.
08Does RankLatch guarantee rankings or prevent changes?+
No. RankLatch does not control a website or Google. It reports supported public fields and preserves evidence after a reviewed baseline is approved. Search performance must still be assessed in Search Console, analytics, and the agency's other trusted systems.
One real page before a whole roster
Check the public state. Then decide whether it deserves daily protection.
Run the ungated scanner on a client page you are authorized to assess. Start the no-card trial only when the captured fields match the responsibility your agency actually owns.
14-day full trial · Free plan after · daily checks · no plugin