Incident Report

A single line of HTML cost us 47 days of organic traffic

LintPage is a free website audit tool that scans your site for SEO killers before you deploy. 45+ automated checks in 30 seconds, built for developers.

A <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> tag left on production. Nobody noticed for 47 days. When they did, 90% of their organic traffic was gone.

index.html — production
1<!DOCTYPE html>
2<html lang="en">
3<head>
4 <title>My Awesome Site</title>
5 <meta name="robots" content="noindex">← the silent killer
6</head>
7...
90%
traffic lost
14 days
to detect
2 min
to fix

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The SEO Kill List

Every issue we catch. Every dollar it could cost you.

noindex on production
Critical

Complete deindexing

robots.txt blocking crawlers
Critical

Pages invisible to Google

Missing SSL certificate
Critical

Chrome "Not Secure" warning, ranking penalty

Missing canonical tags
Warning

Duplicate content penalties

Broken internal links
Warning

Wasted crawl budget, poor UX

Missing meta descriptions
Info

Lower CTR in SERPs

Slow page load (>3s)
Warning

Higher bounce rate, ranking drop

Missing Open Graph tags
Info

Poor social sharing

And 30+ more checks across indexability, crawlability, performance, security, and structured data.

What 30 seconds of prevention looks like

The same deploy. Two very different outcomes.

Without LintPage

Day 0

Deploy to production

noindex tag shipped unnoticed

Day 14

Traffic starts dropping

Google removes pages from index

Day 30

Team notices the problem

90% of organic traffic already gone

Day 47

Root cause found

One meta tag. That's it.

Day 90

Rankings partially recovered

Still 40% below pre-incident traffic

With LintPage

Before launch

Paste staging URL into LintPage

45+ automated checks run in 30 seconds

Issue detected

noindex tag found

Flagged as CRITICAL severity

2 minutes later

Fix applied

Tag removed, re-scan passes

Launch day

Deploy with confidence

Clean bill of health, no surprises

Disaster averted

0 days of lost traffic. 0 dollars wasted.

Every hour you wait is another hour your site could be invisible

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