Make sure you are not accidentally blocking search engines.
Your robots.txt file tells search engine crawlers where they may and may not go. One stray Disallow line can hide your entire site from Google — and it happens more often than you would think, usually when a staging block gets pushed to production. A robots.txt checker validates the file and warns you before a crawl rule costs you your rankings.
Robots.txt is tiny but powerful: a single `Disallow: /` left over from staging tells every crawler to ignore your site, and you can drop out of search entirely. Because the file is easy to overlook in a deploy, monitoring it is the cheapest insurance against a self-inflicted ranking disaster.
Add your site and BrandSentryPro fetches and parses your robots.txt, flags rules that block content you want indexed, and alerts you when the file changes — so a staging block never silently ships to production.
Add a monitor and BrandSentryPro keeps every check running for you — with alerts the moment something needs attention.