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Sitechecker.pro
Sitechecker.pro is a cloud SEO platform built around a technical site crawler, paired with a keyword rank tracker, uptime/change monitoring, a Search Console dashboard, and an AI-visibility tracker that checks whether a site gets cited in ChatGPT, Gemini, and other AI answers. Everything runs against the specific site(s) you add — it holds no independent, persistent index of the wider web.
Sitechecker bundles a per-site crawler, a SERP-based rank tracker, and prompt-based AI-visibility checks — each is a known, open building block on its own, but wiring all of them into one scheduled dashboard across many sites is real, ongoing engineering, not a data moat.
What you lose building it yourself
- ✕One dashboard combining crawl, rank tracking, monitoring, and Search Console data
- ✕Scheduled recrawls and change/uptime monitoring across many sites at once
- ✕An already-built AI-visibility prompt generator and citation tracker
Why people still pay
The crawler and rank checker are each a weekend build individually, but Sitechecker's actual product is running both continuously across many client sites, blending them with Search Console data, and maintaining a separate AI-visibility pipeline — that combination is ongoing engineering work, not a missing data source.
BUILD YOUR OWN · CRAWLER + RANK CHECKS (NOT THE FULL BUNDLE)
An AI coding tool can build a same-site crawler with an automated browser and a scheduled rank checker against a SERP-data API, each in about a weekend — the two building blocks under Sitechecker's crawler and rank tracker. Wiring both into one dashboard with scheduled monitoring, a Search Console blend, and an AI-visibility prompt generator is a much larger, ongoing build, not a weekend project.
StackPlaywright or Puppeteer for the crawler · a SERP-data API (DataForSEO, SerpApi, or Serper) for rank checks · a cron job or hosted scheduler · a small database for historical positions and crawl results · a hosted LLM API for AI-visibility prompt checks.
Build two small Python scripts sharing one SQLite database. Script one: a Playwright crawler that, given a start URL, follows same-domain internal links up to 500 pages, renders JavaScript, and records status code, title, meta description, and broken links per page. Script two: given a list of keywords, call a SERP-data API (DataForSEO, SerpApi, or Serper) once a day via cron, record your domain's position per keyword, and append it to the database. Output a single CSV combining the latest crawl issues and the last 7 days of rank changes.
Similar tools
Free alternative: SerpBear — an open-source rank tracker covering scheduled Google position checks for free if you supply your own SERP API key; it doesn't touch Sitechecker's site crawler, uptime monitoring, or AI-visibility tracking
QUESTIONS
Does Sitechecker have its own backlink index, like some competitors?
No — its backlink feature tracks links you import from Google Search Console, Ahrefs, or add manually, rather than independently discovering every backlink pointing to a domain the way a proprietary crawl-based index does.
How does the AI-visibility tracker actually check citations?
It generates prompts automatically from a site's highest-volume search keywords, then checks whether ChatGPT, Gemini, and similar tools mention or cite the site in their answers — the same query-and-parse pattern most AI-visibility checkers use.
Is there a free trial?
There's a 'try for free' option on paid plans plus a 48-hour money-back guarantee on the first payment, but no permanent free tier — the cheapest plan is $79/month (or $66/month billed annually).