Authority splits across duplicates
Signals that should consolidate on one URL are divided between identical pages competing with each other.
URL duplicity monitoring
Danger
Four versions of your homepage competing with each other
The same page is reachable at more variants than most people realise — http and https, with and without www, with and without a trailing slash. If they do not all resolve to one address, search engines see duplicates.
Danger severity: you get the alert within the hour, not in tomorrow's digest.
What it may cost you
Every variant loads, so there is no visible symptom — the leak persists until rankings plateau.
The wrong variant can win
Search engines pick one. Nothing guarantees it is the one you link to internally, or the one in your campaigns.
The cause sits in infrastructure
An incomplete redirect or canonicalization config is rarely revisited after launch, so the leak outlives the person who set it up.
How an alert reaches you
Three steps, running every day, on something nobody looks at twice a year.
1
Every run
Baseline stored
The first crawl saves every protocol, host and trailing-slash variant of the URL as it should be. That value is what every later run is compared against.
2
Next morning
Change detected
Wygard generates each variant, follows it, and checks it lands on the preferred URL with a permanent redirect inside the hop limit.
3
Within the hour
Alert in your inbox
Danger-level findings go out right after the crawl batch. Milder ones wait for the daily digest, so the urgent one stands out.
You decide what counts as broken
The stored value is your desired state, not a guess. When a later run differs you get both versions side by side — and if the change was intentional, one click adopts it as the new baseline.
Severity matches the damage
This one reaches you within the hour, because the damage starts before the next digest would arrive. Every test's severity can be overridden per site, so your inbox stays useful.
Set it once, then leave it
Pick the frequency and the user agent Wygard should send, switch on JS rendering if your pages need it, and the rest needs no attention.
What we check
One site-wide check, on the homepage by default, extendable to any URL that matters.
| Test | What it catches | Scope | Severity |
|---|---|---|---|
| URL duplicity checker | A variant answers 200 on its own, redirects temporarily instead of permanently, lands somewhere unexpected, or takes more than five hops. |
Web · Basic | Danger |
Questions about url duplicity monitoring
What the checks do, and what they don’t.
Which variants does Wygard generate
The combinations of protocol, www prefix and trailing slash for the URL you monitor.
Why does the redirect type matter
A temporary redirect tells search engines the move is not final, so signals are not consolidated the way a permanent one consolidates them.
Can I check more than the homepage
Yes. The homepage is the default because it is where the leak hurts most, but the check can be added to any URL.
“This app has completely transformed how we manage our SEO. The real-time alerts ensure we never miss an issue. It's a game-changer for protecting our rankings!”
Why Wygard?
Trust, but verify. You build the site — Wygard makes sure your key SEO elements work as intended.
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