# 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](/features/lighthouse-seo-monitoring), check for [broken links](/features/broken-page-and-mixed-content-detection), and alert you on [mixed content](/features/broken-page-and-mixed-content-detection) issues. All three feed directly into Google's ranking signals, so the same tool doubles as an early-warning SEO check.