How to use the Technical SSR Sentinel

A step-by-step guide for customers who already have the Technical SSR Sentinel in one of their seats.

By Al, BuzFind founderUpdated Portland, Indiana (Reading, PA roots)
Technical SSR Sentinel AI agent - Crawling and Indexing Checks
The Technical SSR Sentinel - Crawling and Indexing Checks

This guide shows you how to run the Technical SSR Sentinel, what to type, and how to read what it sends back. To see what it checks and which plans include it, read the Technical SSR Sentinel page.

Before you start

  • Your site address, typed the way you want it to show in Google.
  • Access to your site settings, or a developer, since most fixes are in redirects, the sitemap, or page settings like noindex.
  • The Technical SSR Sentinel picked in one of your seats under My AI agents, then Save selection.

Step by step

  1. Sign in and open My AI agents in the dashboard menu. Click the Technical SSR Sentinel to put it in one of your seats, then click Save selection.
  2. Open the Dashboard page. In the chat box, type what you need in plain words and include your website address.
  3. Wait while the check runs. The answer shows in the chat, and the full report is saved under Audit reports & fixes.
  4. Make the changes you agree with, then send the same request again to see what is still open.

What to type in the chat

Copy one of these requests and change the details to match your business.

“Run a technical SEO audit on yourbusiness.com”
Use this as your main check. It reads up to 10 pages, following links up to two clicks from the address you type.

“Check if search engines can index yourbusiness.com”
Plain wording like this starts the same Technical SEO Audit.

“Run a technical SEO audit on yourbusiness.com/blog/”
Use this when you want the 10 pages it reads to come from one section.

How to read the results

  • Each issue names a page or address and the proof, such as a redirect chain, an http or www version that does not end at your main address, or a page missing from your sitemap.
  • Speed tips like unused JavaScript are not part of this agent's issues. The Speed Optimizer reports those.
  • A page with very few words in its page code can mean the text only shows after JavaScript runs. Open the page source in your browser to compare.

What to do next

  • Fix redirects so each old address goes to the final page in one step, and add missing pages to your sitemap.
  • Use Copy fix instructions to send an issue to your developer with the exact page named.
  • When the changes are live, run the same request on the same address to confirm the issues are gone.

Tips

  • Type your address the way visitors use it. If you type a version that redirects, the first issue may be about that redirect.
  • If you type only your address, the chat shows the audit list. Name the audit, like technical SEO audit, to start it right away.
  • The check sees the code your server sends, not what a browser shows after scripts run, so a page that looks full to you can look thin to the check.

Questions about using it

Which pages does it read?

It starts at the address you type and follows links on your site, up to 10 pages for the Technical SEO Audit. Pages that are not linked from there are not read.

Does it look at my sitemap?

Yes. It reads your sitemap.xml, checks a sample of the links in it, and flags pages it read that are not listed there.

Agents work better together. Here are specialists that pair well with the Technical SSR Sentinel:

  • Speed Optimizer - Finds what makes your site slow, especially on phones, and gives you a fix list with the biggest wins first.
  • Platform Readiness Lead - Checks the technical signals that affect whether search engines and AI tools (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini) can reach your pages: robots.
  • Entity Schema Engineer - Checks the schema.

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