Content Guard Overview

Content Guard Background & Requirements

Content Guard Plus can be enabled by contacting your CSM or by sending a request to support@seoclarity.net. Please note enabling this feature may include additional costs outside of your subscription. Custom on-page elements can be added for tracking via the Content Guard Crawler settings.

Content Guard Use Cases

1. Find out about critical changes when they happen.
   
2. Monitor any page for any change such as additions, deletions, and modifications.
   
3. Customize your alerts for types of changes, who receives the alerts, the frequency, and where alerts are sent.
   
4. Receive detailed reports with viewing options.

Content Guard

Content Guard alerts you to over 100 possible changes to any of the pages you track in your seoClarity subscription. This feature can be found under Page Clarity on the left side navigation menu.

How To Configure Content Guard

After selecting Content Guard under the Page Clarity menu, click on Configuration in the top right corner.

This will automatically open the Page Crawler in Settings where you can select the elements you would like to track changes on. 

How To Track Custom Content in Content Guard 

To track custom content in Content Guard open "Page Crawler" in settings and specify custom content that you would like tracked for each managed page

How To Track Custom Content in Content Guard Plus

Track custom content in the "Content Guard Crawler” located in the Settings page by specifying any custom content you would like tracked for a page. This goes into effect with the very next crawl. Learn More

Content Guard Summary tab

The Content Guard Summary tab displays the element that changed, severity, the number of pages affected, and assign an action item related to those changes. Open an element change to view the list of URLs affected, the date, what the change was previously, and what it is currently.

Content Guard Change Log tab

The Change Log tab shows all the changes detected by URL, the severity of the change, the changed element, what it was previously, what it is currently, the date of the change, and assign an action item related to those changes. From the Change Log tab you can also download the complete list of changes by clicking on the icon of an arrow pointing down. It is located on the top right of the table. Clicking on an URL will open the Page Clarity page for that URL.

Content Guard URL tab

View all the URLs, their total count of changes, critical severity change count, and medium severity changes count. Open the dropdown under the URL to view the date, what type of changes were made, the updated change, and a trend line displaying how many changes were made by date. Hover over the trend line to see the count of Added, Removed, and Modified. 

Content Guard Email Alerts

Email alerts can be configured individually for each group via the Configure Alerts button in the top right. 

You can choose which changes they wish to be alerted about, and who should be receiving alerts. This is useful to reduce unnecessary change alerts and reduce noise. For example if a client has dynamically updated titles, they may not want to be alerted about title changes. Instead they may only care if Title is removed.  You can also choose whether to send alerts to a registered user or an unregistered user. 

Content Guard Alert Types by Severity

Critical

1. Blocked by robots changed
2. Canonical URL is consistent changed
3. Canonical added
4. Canonical changed
5. Canonical header flag changed
6. Canonical header type changed
7. Canonical removed
8. Canonical type changed
9. Custom data added
10. Custom data changed
11. Custom data removed
12. Description removed
13. H1 removed
14. Header nofollow changed
15. Header noindex changed
16. Hreflang links removed
17. Indexable changed
18. Insecure resources changed
19. Meta robots follow flag changed
20. Meta robots index flag changed
21. Redirect 301 removed
22. Redirect 302 removed
23. Redirect final response code changed
24. Response code changed
25. Response code changed to 200
26. Response code changed to 3xx
27. Response code changed to 4xx
28. Response code changed to 5xx
    
29. Robots.txt changed
    
30. Title removed
31. Viewport removed
    

1. Analyzed URL changed
2. Base tag target changed
3. Hreflang errors changed
4. Meta redirect changed
5. Mixed redirects changed
6. Mobile rel alternate URL is consistent changed
7. Redirect 301 detected
8. Redirect 302 detected
9. Redirect blocked changed
10. Redirect blocked reason changed
11. Redirect final URL changed
    
12. Robots added
    
13. Robots removed
    
14. Title changed
    
15. Title length changed
    

1. Alternate links changed
2. Archive flag changed
3. Base tag added
4. Description added
5. Description changed
6. Error message changed
7. Header noarchive changed
8. Open graph markup removed
9. Redirect chain changed
10. Redirect response code is different
11. Redirect times changed
12. Response headers added
13. Response headers removed
14. Robots contents changed
15. Title added
16. Viewport added
17. Viewport content changed
    

1. Content type changed
2. Description length changed
3. H1 added
4. H1 changed
5. H1 count changed
6. H1 length changed
7. H2 added
8. H2 changed
9. H2 removed
10. Header noodp changed
11. Header nosnippet changed
12. Header noydir changed
13. Hreflang URL count changed
14. Hreflang links added
15. Hreflang links changed
16. Hreflang links out count changed
17. Meta charset changed
18. Meta content type changed
19. Meta disabled sitelinks changed
20. Meta noodp changed
21. Meta nosnippet changed
22. Meta noydir changed
23. Noodp changed
24. Nosnippet changed
25. Noydir changed
26. Open graph markup added
27. Open graph markup changed
28. Open graph markup length changed
29. Outlink count changed
30. Page analysis results changed
31. Page links changed
32. Structured data changed

Content Guard Plus

Content Guard Plus Group Creation

Once Content Guard Plus is enabled, pages can be added through the Universal Add Elements function. This will create the initial Content Guard Plus table. 

Content Guard enables clients to organize pages they’d like to monitor in “Groups”. Choose a Group name or select an existing Group, select a frequency (Hourly or Daily) and enter in the URLs to be added to the Group. The frequency of monitoring is specified at the group level and alerts will be triggered accordingly. If hourly is selected, then alerts can be sent every hour when a change is detected. If daily is selected option, then alerts will be triggered at midnight US Central time when a change is detected. 

Content Guard Plus Group Table