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<p>Search Engine Snitch is a lightweight WordPress plugin that monitors your site’s search engine visibility settings. If you accidentally (or intentionally) block search engines from indexing your site, this plugin will send you email alerts to notify you of the change.</p>
<p><strong>Key Features:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Real-time Monitoring:</strong> Continuously monitors your site’s “Discourage search engines from indexing this site” setting</li>
<li><strong>Email Notifications:</strong> Sends alerts when search engine visibility is disabled</li>
<li><strong>Admin Bar Indicator:</strong> Shows current visibility status directly in the WordPress admin bar</li>
<li><strong>Customizable Frequency:</strong> Choose how often to check visibility (Daily, Weekly, Monthly)</li>
<li><strong>Custom Email:</strong> Set custom email addresses for notifications</li>
<li><strong>Cron-based Checks:</strong> Uses WordPress cron for scheduled checks (no performance impact)</li>
<li><strong>Lightweight:</strong> Minimal code footprint, no external dependencies</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Why Use Search Engine Snitch?</strong></p>
<p>Accidentally blocking search engines can have serious consequences for your website’s SEO and traffic. Common scenarios include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Developers disabling visibility during maintenance and forgetting to re-enable it</li>
<li>Accidental changes by multiple team members</li>
<li>Plugin conflicts that modify visibility settings</li>
<li>Testing environments affecting production settings</li>
</ul>
<p>Search Engine Snitch acts as a safety net, ensuring you’re always aware of your site’s search engine visibility status.</p>
<h3>Roadmap</h3>
<ul>
<li>Multiple email recipients</li>
<li>Visibility history log</li>
<li>Instant checks (not just scheduled)</li>
<li>Multisite support</li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy</h3>
<p>This plugin does not:<br />
*   Collect any personal data<br />
*   Track users<br />
*   Send data to external servers<br />
*   Store information beyond plugin settings</p>
<p>All data remains on your WordPress installation. The only external communication is the email notification when triggered.</p>
<h3>License</h3>
<p>This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License v2 for more details.</p>


Search Engine Snitch

Monitor your WordPress site's search engine visibility and get instant alerts when search engines are blocked from indexing your content.

Jonatan Jumbert

<p>The Code to Text Ratio represents the percentage of actual text in a web page. This plugin extracts the text of all your pages and posts from HTML code and calculates the content ratio based on this information.</p>
<h4>Why is it important?</h4>
<p>The code to text ratio of a page is used by search engines and spiders to calculate the relevancy of a web page. A higher code to text ratio gives you a better chance of getting a good page ranking for your page.</p>
<p>Not all search engines are using the code to text ratio in their index algorithm, but most of them do. So having a higher code to text ratio than your competitors gives you a good start for on-site optimization.</p>
<h4>% Ratios and meanings:</h4>
<ul>
<li>0% – 10%: Consider adding more content or revamping your code.</li>
<li>10% – 25%: Content is moderate, but always room to improve.</li>
<li>25% – 70%: Generally good, but don’t over do it.</li>
<li>70% – 100%: If you’ve got higher than about 70% or so then you’ve got a lot of text and not a lot of code, which might sound like a good thing, but could represent spam too.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Ways to lower the amount of code on a web page</h4>
<ul>
<li>Use CSS layouts instead of table-based layouts.</li>
<li>Put CSS and Javascript into external files.</li>
<li>Take out tags that have no purpose.</li>
<li>Use valid code. After all, a page scoring 25% which works everywhere is usually better than one which scores 50% but fails in most browsers.</li>
<li>Write more text on your posts.</li>
</ul>


WPCode Content Ratio

This plugin extracts the text of all your pages and posts from HTML code and calculates the content ratio based on this information.

Search Engine Snitch vs WPCode Content Ratio