Will an uptime monitor affect SEO?

An uptime monitor has no direct SEO impact (it doesn't talk to Google, it just checks your site), but it has a meaningful indirect effect. Here's the chain:

• When Googlebot visits your site during an outage, it records the failure.
• Repeated failed crawls can push pages out of the index and hurt rankings.
• The longer an outage runs without you noticing, the more Googlebot visits land on errors.

A monitor that alerts you within a minute lets you fix problems before Google (or your customers) notices. That protects rankings and search visibility without requiring any changes to your SEO strategy itself.

A bonus effect: some monitors (including Oh Dear) also run Lighthouse audits, check for broken links, and alert you on mixed content issues. All three feed directly into Google's ranking signals, so the same tool doubles as an early-warning SEO check.