Understanding alerts

Placeholder

This page is a stub — we'll flesh out each alert type with real examples, severity reasoning, and recommended fixes as the alert catalog stabilizes.

When Wygard detects a change on a monitored page, it sends an alert. Each alert includes:

• What changed — e.g. meta robots went from index,follow → noindex,nofollow
• Where — which page, which template
• When — timestamp of the check
• Severity — how likely this is to hurt rankings

Severity levels

Level	Meaning	Typical example
Critical	Will almost certainly cost organic traffic if left unfixed.	Homepage goes noindex.
Warning	Suspicious change that needs human judgement.	Canonical tag now points to a different URL.
Info	Something changed, but likely harmless.	Title tag rewritten.

Responding to an alert

1. Open the alert from your email or dashboard.
2. Check the diff — Wygard shows the previous value and the new value.
3. Decide: intended change or accidental regression?
4. If accidental, fix it on your site and click Mark resolved on the alert.

When to ignore

If your team intentionally changed something (e.g. you really do want a page noindexed), mark it as Expected so future alerts for that setting stay quiet.