Tags and RedirectsStructured DataInspection with every delivery

SEO Testing: Protect Your SEO from Production Deployments

A forgotten `noindex` tag in a recipe, a broken redirect, a duplicate title on a thousand pages. Losses in organic traffic rarely come from Google—they come from a delivery.

Test script for checking tags in the Mr Suricate editor: title and description are read from the DOM and then compared to a list of URLs

They trust us

Retail, banking, manufacturing, transportation, and services: Our clients run nearly 3 million scenario simulations per month on their critical workflows.

An SEO mistake isn't something you can see— you only realize it two months later

A "noindex" tag carried over from the staging environment to production doesn't cause any issues at all. The site works, customers browse as usual, and no alerts are triggered. Google, meanwhile, quietly removes the pages from its index, and the drop in traffic becomes apparent in the reports six to eight weeks later, by which time the cause has become difficult to trace.

The tags that determine indexing

Robots.txt, canonical tags, title tags, meta descriptions, and heading tags. Verified page by page, not based on a sample.

Redirects that preserve the history

A 301 redirect that disappears during a site redesign is a lost asset. The audit re-runs your critical redirects.

Structured Data

Product, price, availability, reviews, breadcrumb trail. Broken markup causes rich results to disappear.

What a Robot Sees

Content actually present on the served page, response codes, redirect strings. What the browser displays is not always what the crawler receives.

Integrates with your pipeline without rewriting it

Your tag checks are triggered from your CI, run on your production environments, and report back to where your teams are already working. No need to retool.

1 Triggering Your tools stay in control

GitLab
Jenkins
Microsoft Azure
API Call
Planning

2 Execution

Your scripts run on your production environments

Web Tour
Native iOS and Android Apps
Real Mobile Farms
APIs and Internal Feeds

3 Restitution The results are delivered right to your workplace

Jira
Slack
SMS
Webhook
API

And maintenance that stands the test of time

Reusable blocksA change updates all scenarios that use it
AI-Assisted CorrectionSuggested corrections for scenarios with errors
Grouping IncidentsSimilar anomalies are processed only once

How Automated, Line-by-Line Validation Makes a Difference

Without ongoing SEO monitoringWith Mr Suricate

Without ongoing SEO monitoring

With Mr Suricate

The decline is observed two months after the cause.

The discrepancy is reported on the day of delivery.

A recipe with the "noindex" tag can be deployed to production.

He's blocking the upload.

Redirects are checked during the redesign and then ignored.

They are performed regularly.

A broken markup is detected in Search Console.

It becomes clear as the story unfolds.

SEO depends on everyone's vigilance.

It becomes a criterion for putting the product into production.

We audit a few sample pages.

We check all the templates.

ResultIndexing errors caught before going live, rather than a drop in traffic that would need to be explained two months later.

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“With Mr Suricate, we’ve automated label verification, secured our data, and gained the reliability we need to make strategic decisions without errors. Plus, it’s fun!”

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Support that ends whenever you want

Mr Suricate replace your QA team—it enhances it. You decide what to handle in-house and what to outsource: creating test scenarios, running them, or maintaining them over time.

1Identification of critical paths, front-end and back-end
2Writing Tests Without Code
3Continuous monitoring and alerts
4Scenario Maintenance and Development

ResultYou gain broader coverage without increasing your teams’ workload. And if you’d rather delegate everything, QA outsourcing takes over.

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Other Types of Tests

Fifteen types of tests, four categories. Each one answers a different question about your application.

Data Layer TestsEvents sent to your tagging plan, verified at every stage of the user journey.Learn more Accessibility TestingYour user flows are automatically checked for compliance with accessibility criteria.Learn more GDPR TestingThe actual behavior of your consent banner and the trackers it controls.Learn more Green IT TestsThe footprint of your user journeys and the actual size of your pages, tracked over time.Learn more Performance TestsThe actual response time of your user journeys, continuously measured and compared to your thresholds.Learn more Non-regression testingRe-run all validated test cases before each deployment.Learn more Security testingVerify what a user can actually access: permissions by profile, sessions, authentication, HTTPS.Learn more The 15 Types of TestsThe big picture: four categories, fifteen types, and where to start based on your situation.Learn more

Is there a term you don't understand? The automated testing glossary defines it.

YOUR QUESTIONS

Frequently Asked Questions

The most common questions we get about SEO testing.

Does an SEO test replace a crawl tool?

No, the two aren't used at the same time. A crawler captures a snapshot of the site's status and informs a strategy. Automated testing, on the other hand, runs at the time of deployment and prevents regressions from reaching production. It's a safeguard, not an audit.

What exactly can be verified?

Deterministic technical elements: the robots.txt file, the canonical tag, the title tag, the meta description, heading structure, response codes, redirect chains, the presence and validity of structured data, and the compliance of the content served.

Does that improve search rankings?

Indirectly, by preventing losses. The majority of organic traffic incidents stem from a technical error introduced during a production deployment, not from an algorithm change. Avoiding these incidents is often more valuable than further optimization.

Can we control the redirects during a redesign?

Yes, and it's one of the most cost-effective uses. The redirect plan becomes a scenario that simulates each old URL and verifies that it leads to the correct destination, in a single step and with the correct code.

How often should these checks be performed?

For critical templates, this is done with every production deployment; for the rest, it is done on a scheduled basis. SEO errors go unnoticed: the sooner they are detected, the smaller the loss.

What exactly do we check?

The following elements are readable in the DOM of the rendered page: the title tag, the meta description, the headers, the canonical tags, and the attributes of your elements. The value read is stored in a variable and then compared to the expected value.

Can you check a lot of pages at once?

Yes. A list of URLs and expected values is loaded from a file, and the script loops through them. This allows you to monitor your key pages without having to write a separate script for each one.

Is this an SEO audit?

No, and you shouldn’t expect it. We don’t monitor your search engine rankings, and we don’t replace your SEO tool. We check to make sure that a production rollout hasn’t caused a tag to disappear, a redirect to break, or a title to be emptied—issues that a monthly audit wouldn’t catch until it’s too late.

When does the check start?

As often as you choose, and especially after each delivery. A deviation triggers an incident and an alert, just like any other test. The report can also be emailed to the team responsible for product listing.

Do you only believe what you see?

A 30-minute demo of your own app. You'll see one of your workflows automated in real time, without writing any code.